Janneke Wesseling
Professor Emeritus Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts
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- Prof.dr. J.C. Wesseling
- j.c.wesseling@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Janneke Wesseling is director of PhDArts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University and professor in Art and Research at the University of the Arts, The Hague.
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Publication - Bridging Distance: Artistic Research During a Pandemic -
Publication: Making Matters - A Vocabulary for Collective Arts -
Goodbye Janneke, and hello Anke, our new professor at ACPA -
Save the date! MAKING MATTERS Symposium 2020: Collective Material Practices in Critical Times -
PhDArts Conference in retrospect -
Janneke Wesseling on The Device Paradigm and Contemporary Practices in Art and Design -
Kickoff Critical Making research project -
Lecture State of the ART -
ACPA research honored for NWO Smart Culture
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English paperback The Perfect Spectator out now -
Public Defense: The Magic of Projection; Augmentation and Immersion in Media Art -
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‘The almost impossible task of being both artist and observer' -
Three new professors Academy of Creative and Performing Arts -
ACPA course Listening and Looking to start in February
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Upcoming exhibitions, residencies, concerts, record launches and lectures by PhDArts, docARTES and ACPA researchers
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Janneke Wesseling gives Keynote presentation at Symposium in Porto
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Janneke Wesseling is director of PhDArts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University and professor in Art and Research at the University of the Arts, The Hague. As of February 1, 2016 she has also been appointed Professor at Leiden University's Faculty of Humanities, where she holds the chair in Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts.
Since 1983 she writes as art critic for NRC Handelsblad. In addition Wesseling publishes regularly on contemporary art in magazines and catalogues in The Netherlands and abroad. She also published a number of independent studies and books, including:
- De volmaakte beschouwer. De ervaring van het kunstwerk en de receptie-esthetica. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2015.
- See it Again, Say it Again. The Artist as Researcher. Ed. Janneke Wesseling. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2011.
- Het museum dat niet bestond. Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2004.
- Schoonhoven, beeldend kunstenaar. The Hague/Amsterdam: SDU publishers/Openbaar Kunstbezit, 1990.
Wesseling obtained the doctoral degree at Leiden University with a dissertation on contemporary art and reception aesthetics, entitled De volmaakte beschouwer. De ervaring van het kunstwerk en de actualiteit van de receptie-esthetica (The Perfect Spectator. The Experience of the Artwork and the Topicality of Reception Aesthetics).
Professor Emeritus Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts
- Faculty of Humanities
- Academie der Kunsten
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- Wesseling J.C. (2021), Art is Going Underground. In: Westgeest H. & Zijlmans C.J.M. (Eds.) Mix & Stir. New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives. Amsterdam: Valiz. 89-95.
- Wesseling J.C. (2018), Artists and Academia [Subjectivity in practice-based artistic research conference, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, 11 January 2018].
- Wesseling J.C. (28 October 2017), We delen een kritische blik. Interviewed by Jaeger P. de for Trouw [interview].
- Wesseling J.C. (23 September 2017), Hoe kunst en wetenschap elkaar kunnen versterken. Interviewed by Kolman K. for Trouw [interview].
- Wesseling J.C. (14 September 2017), Kunst is ook een wetenschap. Interviewed by Kammer C. for NRC Handelsblad [interview].
- Wesseling J.C. & Zijlmans K. (2017), Q and A: Towards a Practice of Artistic Research. In: Impett J. (Ed.) Artistic Research in Music: Discipline and Resistance. Artists and Reseachers at the Orpheus Institute. Leuven: Leuven University Press. 211 – 220.
- Wesseling J.C. (2017), The Perfect Spectator. The experience of the art work and reception-aesthetics. Amsterdam: Valiz.
- Grinsven L. van, Krauss A., Leeuwen M. van, Pokutycki P., Schilstra O., Verschaffel B. & Wesseling J.C. (2016), De vrije ruimte van de kunst.. In: Schilstra O., Wesseling J.C. (Eds.) Veranderend kunstonderwijs II. Het samengaan van theorie en praktijk in het onderwijs.. no. II Den Haag: Koninklijke Academie van Kunsten. 64.
- Wesseling J.C. (2016), Een kortstondige flikkering. In: Kok A. (Ed.) Kunstkritiek in een tijd van vervagende grenzen. Over engagement, design en commercie 1989 – 2015. Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers. 154 – 159.
- Wesseling J.C. (2016), Het merk wint op alle fronten. In: Kok A. (Ed.) Kunstkritiek in een tijd van vervagende grenzen. Over engagement, design en commercie 1989 – 2015. Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers. 208 – 213.
- Wesseling J.C. (2016), Interdisciplinarity and artistic research: where is the “inter” located? [International expert meeting Practicing interdisciplinarity? States of the Art, Swiss Institute, Rome, 10 and 11 October 2016].
- Wesseling J.C. (2016), Korte film gepubliceerd door NWO waarin Jet Bussemaker, Micha Hamel, Timo de Rijk en Janneke Wesseling spreken over het belang van het NWO Smart Culture programma: Interviewed by [interview].
- Wesseling J.C. (2016), Of Sponge, Stone and the Intertwinement with the Here and Now. A Methodology of Artistic Research. (Inaugural address). amsterdam: Valiz.
- Wesseling J.C. (2016), Of Sponge, Stone and the Intertwinement with the Here and Now . Amsterdam: Valiz.
- Borgdorff H., Moosmann D., Christoph N. & Wesseling J.C. (2016), Why Write? On Writing as Art Practice.. In: Borgdorff H., Lewin A. (Eds.) Conference Booklet SAR Conference 2016 The Hague. The Hague: Society for Artistic Research. 63.
- Wesseling J.C. (2016), Zwelgen in oosters exotisme. In: Kletter S. (Ed.) Turbulentie rond videokunst. Kunstkritische reflecties op een nieuw medium 1970 – 2010. Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers. 227 – 232.
- Wesseling J.C. (12 November 2015), Kunstkritiek en receptie-esthetica [Lezingenreeks Kunst Nu, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst De Appel, Amsterdam] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (11 November 2015), Kunstkritiek en receptie-esthetica [Lezingenreeks Kunst Nu, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst Witte de With, Rotterdam] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (24 April 2015), De Volmaakte Beschouwer. De ervaring van het kunstwerk: over perspectieven bij het kijken naar kunstwerken [Esthetisch Genootschap Oost-Nederland, Arnhem] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (2015), De redder. De uitbundige schilderijen van Frank Stella. In: Schuhmacher R. (Ed.) Kunstkritiek als exact vak? De kunsthistoricus als criticus 1960 – 2005. Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers. 149 – 155.
- Wesseling J.C. (24 September 2014), Artistic Research: Finding The Question [Symposium on artistic research, Ice Breaking Fantasies Festival in Helsinki, TAhTO Doctoral Programme in Artistic Research, University of the Arts, Helsinki in collaboration with Aalto University, 24 September 2014] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (24 April 2014), Doctoraat in de kunsten [Platformbijeenkomst Taskforce Onderzoek Sectorplan KUO, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (18 February 2014), De waarde van kunstkritiek ['Kunst voor de Happy Many', Studium Generale, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (2014), De machteloze zonen van Europa. In: Ruiter P. de (Ed.) De terugkeer van het schilderen. Kunstkritische opvattingen over een ijzersterk medium 1975-1989. Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers. 223 – 228.
- Wesseling J.C. (2014), De Volmaakte beschouwer. De ervaring van het kunstwerk en receptie-esthetica (e-book). Amsterdam: Valiz.
- Wesseling J.C. (2014), On Methodology [Iinternational symposium Conversations on Artistic Research, organized by the Research Group of Arts Education of the Research Institute in Arts, Design and Society, Faculty of Visual Arts, University of Porto, 6 and 7 November 2014].
- Wesseling J.C. (2014), Verlangen naar verlossing. Beelden van Henk Visch in het Groninger Museum. In: Ruiter P. de (Ed.) De terugkeer van het schilderen. Kunstkritische opvattingen over een ijzersterk medium 1975-1989. Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers. 198 – 201.
- Wesseling J.C. (13 November 2013), Beeldende kunst en receptie-esthetica ['Vijf vrouwen', Studium Generale, HKU, Utrecht] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (18 October 2013), Artistic Research: Research and Performativity [Een Real World sessie van Artquest, programma van de Whitechapel Art Gallery, Londen] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (2013), See it Again, Say it Again. The Artist as Researcher. In: Hedinger J.M., Meyer T. (Eds.) What’s Next? Kunst nach der Krise. Ein Reader. Berlijn: Kulturverlag, Kosmos. 594 – 599.
- Wesseling J.C. (13 June 2012), PhDArts: Art and Research [The PopUp University, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (17 January 2012), The Artist as Researcher [Ruby Tuesday Lectures, Schunck, Heerlen] (Lecture).
- Wesseling J.C. (2012), Hoe denkt de kunstenaar? Theorie en reflectie in het kunstonderwijs. In: Borgdorff H., Sonderen P. (Eds.) Denken in Kunst. Theorie en Reflectie in het Kunstonderwijs. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 38 – 49.
- Wesseling J.C. (2012), How do artists think?. In: Elkins J. (Ed.) What do Artists know?. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press. 193 – 195.
- Wesseling J.C. (2011), See it Again, Say it Again. The Artist as Researcher. Amsterdam: Valiz.
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