Christine de Baan (born 10 October 1956) is a Dutch art curator, policy advisor and director, known for numerous contributions in the field
Dutch Design. She participated in the organisation of the
Prix de Rome, the
Rotterdamse Kunststichting
The Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS (''Rotterdam Arts Council'') was an independent foundation to promote art and culture in Rotterdam from 1945 to 2005. In 2005 the foundation merged into the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, an advisory body ...
where she was founding director of the
Rotterdam Design Award in 1993, the Fonds BKVB, and the
International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam
The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) is a bi-annual international event bringing together international knowledge and experience in various design disciplines (architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture), and pres ...
.
[Tracy Metz. "Van design via netwerk tot product," ''NRC Handelsblad.'' 16 december 2008]
Biography
Studies and early career
De Baan studied French at the
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...
from 1975 to 1977, and architectural design at the
Willem de Kooning Academy from 1979 to 1986. In the last year she started working together with the designer
Ed Annink
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.
After her studies in 1987 De Baan,
Renny Ramakers
Renny Ramakers is a Dutch art historian, curator, design critic, and co-founder and director of the Droog design foundation. Ramakers writes articles, gives lectures, initiates projects and curates exhibitions in the field of art and design. In 200 ...
and Ed Annink founded the Foundation Products of Imagination, which initiated and organized multiple design projects and publications. In 1989 she created an exhibition in the
Jaarbeurs about the 150 year of Dutch railroads and the romances, that had taken place there.
De Baan participated in the organisation of the
Prix de Rome from 1990 to early 1993, and edited some of its publications. Early 1993 she joined the
Rotterdamse Kunststichting
The Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS (''Rotterdam Arts Council'') was an independent foundation to promote art and culture in Rotterdam from 1945 to 2005. In 2005 the foundation merged into the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, an advisory body ...
, where she was founding director of the
Rotterdam Design Award, which she managed the next six or seven years.
Later career
In the new millennium De Baan joined the Fonds BKVB, later the Mondrian Fund, were she chaired the advisory board of the national funding for art and design for four years. She was program director of the
International Architecture Biennal Rotterdam
The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) is a bi-annual international event bringing together international knowledge and experience in various design disciplines (architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture), and pres ...
from 2006 to 2008.
From 2008 until 2013 she was director of DutchDFA, the Dutch design Dutch Design, Fashion and Architecture.
[Daan van Lent. "Toen wij begonnen was er nauwelijks crisis," ''NRC Handelsblad.'' 5 April 2013]
Afterwards De Baan continued a program director, advisor and/or lecturer nationally and international form Dublin, to Cape Town and Beijing. In Arnhem she was advisor for the Arnhem Fashion Biennale in 2014-15 and directed the Sonsbeek and State of fashion foundation in Arnhem for a year.
Work
Products of Imagination
Around 1985 De Baan had started cooperating with the designer Ed Annink to research the state of the design and young designers in the Netherlands. Ed van Hinte explained:
[Ed van Hinte. ''Ed Annink, Designer,'' 2002. p. 126]
A similar research in those days had been performed by
Renny Ramakers
Renny Ramakers is a Dutch art historian, curator, design critic, and co-founder and director of the Droog design foundation. Ramakers writes articles, gives lectures, initiates projects and curates exhibitions in the field of art and design. In 200 ...
for a series of her articles in ''de Volkskrant.'' The three of them decided to join forces to promote the new wave of ideas of those Dutch designer. They started a foundation in 1987, and named it "Products of Imagination," abbreviated POI or P.O.I. Their cooperation resulted in the publication of a book under the same name, and the organization of multiple design exhibitions.
[Ivo Weyel,]
Ontwerperssalon een netwerk van verrassingen
" ''Het Parool.'' Amsterdam, 1990/02/28, p. 15.
DutchDFA
In 2013 the DutchDFA came to an ending, and its funding tasks merged into the Stimulation fund for the Creative Industry (Stimuleringsfonds voor de Creatieve Industrie).
Selected publications
* Ed Annink, Christine de Baan, Renny Ramakers. ''Products of Imagination, The Dutch Experiment in Design.'' 1987.
* Christine de Baan, ''1991 Prix de Rome: fotografie,'' Museum Fodor (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Nederlands Filmmuseum, 1991.
* Baan, Christine de, ''Prix de Rome 1992 : beeldhouwen/beeldende kunst en openbaarheid = sculpture/art in the open,'' Uitgeverij 010, 1992.
* Christine de Baan ed. ''Designprijs Rotterdam 1994, ''Amsterdam: Uitgeverij BIS, 1994.
* Baan, Christine de, ''The flood : 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam : catalogue = catalogus,'' International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2005
* Baan, Christine de, ''De Hollandse waterstad = Water cities,'' 2005.
* Baan, Christine de, ''Visionary power : producing the contemporary city,'' NAi Publishers, 2007.
References
External links
Christine de Baan - The Technopolicy Network
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1956 births
Living people
Dutch art historians
Willem de Kooning Academy alumni