Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern (born

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) is a Dutch

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and curator, who came into prominence as director of the

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and as curator at

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in the 1990s.

Biography

Education and early career

Meyer studied art at the

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in Amsterdam and the

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from 1968 to 1972. From 1972 to 1964 he studied another two years art history, criticism and conservation at the

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. In 1977 Meyer started as staff member (Education) at the

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. In 1980 he was one of the founders of the artists' initiative De Fabriek in Eindhoven. In 1986 Meyer was assistant director of the International Sculpture Exhibition Sonsbeek 86 Arnhem. In 1987 he was appointed director of

. In 1990 he moved to the Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS (Arts Council Rotterdam). That year with Jan van Adrichem for Boymans and Ove Lucas for the CBK Rotterdam they curated the exhibition in the former

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head office, now

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, called ''Rotterdam Assorti.''Ida Jager.
Hal-Gebouw Rotterdam Assorti
" ''De Volkskrant,'' 26-05-1990. In 1993 Meyer for the RKS curated the exhibition ''Verwantschaften'' in the Rotterdam

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.Anna Tilroe,
Het Oog, het Oor, de Kosmos en de Dingen
" ''de Volkskrant,'' 's-Hertogenbosch, 1993/04/23, p. 9. In 1996 he coordinated for the RKS the first European

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exhibition in Rotterdam.

Later career

From 1999 to 2006 Meyer was manager and curator at TENT Rotterdam for the Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam (CBK), and another five years he was curator of international projects for the CBK, such as Paramaribo SPAN with Surinam. After another year (2010–2011) Meyer was advisor for the André Volten Foundation, and then he continued as freelance curator, researcher and writer. Among others Meyer lectured about contemporary German painters as Penck, Immendorff, Kiefer, Lüpertz, Baselitz. He interviewed deviant artist Reynaldo Chirino for a project by Bik Van Der Pol. He was among the first to participate in the Artist in the World project by André Smits.André Smits schenkt foto's van hedendaagse kunstenaars aan RKD
at ''rkd.nl'', 18 december 2018. In 2014 he published a book about Yubi Kirindongo, a rebellious artist from

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Selected publications

* Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern. ''Brieven van Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam geschreven door ... - Volume 5.'' 1984. * Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern. ''Confrontaciones,'' 1988. * Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern. ''Kirindongo, Yubi. Rebel in de kunst,'' Stichting LM publishers: Arnhem, 2014.

References

External links

Thomas Meyer Zu Schlochtern, The Artists In The World
{{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer zu Schlochtern, Thomas 1946 births Living people Dutch art historians Curators from Amsterdam Dutch art curators