email: bureaudoove@gmail.com
Edith Doove is a curator, writer and researcher specifically interested in notions of self-organisation, emergence and contingency, cross and transdisciplinary collaborations. Her curatorial practice started in 1987 in Belgium when she started making exhibitions at her apartment.
She started her creative consultancy BUREAU DOOVE in 2015 to promote her curatorial work as well as a choice of international artists. After obtaining her PhD in 2017, she moved to France, where she currently works and lives in Rouen. Her important network in Belgium led her to be invited as curator visual arts for the Watou Arts Festival in 2023. In September 2024, her show The Research Group on the group of artists about which she wrote her master thesis in 1996, opened in museum Het Stadsmus, Hasselt. She is a moderator for Laser Talks Brussels in collaboration with Alexandra Dementieva who initiated these.
As part of her research Doove redeveloped an artistic practice, the results of which can be found on her website everything else.
* Doctoral research:
Laughter, infra-mince and cybernetics: Exploring the Curatorial as Creative Act (2017)
Marcel Duchamp, Door: 11, Rue Larrey (Porte: 11, Rue
Larrey), 1927. Three-dimensional pun: a door that
permanently opens and shuts at the same time, made
by a carpenter after Duchamp’s design, 86 5/8 x 24 11/16 in.
Collection Arman, New York. Courtesy of Arturo Schwarz.
This research identifies and responds to an impasse in the curatorial, which it sees as being both caused by its rapid expansion since the late 1980s as well as through its mainstream appropriation, which leaves it altogether in a confused state. The research proposes a strategy of recovery of its most basic working and regarding the curatorial as a creative act. It does so by locating the curatorial in the collaboration between both human and non-human elements – the curator, artist and/or scientist versus text, artefact, space and time. A poetic investigation of an invisible force that is seen as instrumental in the curatorial and meaning making in general, is underpinned by investigating a set of three major, intersecting ideas or intertwining narratives: laughter, inframince and cybernetics.
Using an essentially diffractive methodology, building on amongst others Whitehead and Barad, this thesis connects to ideas of non-linearity and relay in (art) history, building a rich meshwork, which allows for an original reconnection of the curatorial to its provenance and connoisseurship.
*Presentations at conferences and seminars, lectures: under construction
* Publications: See https://bureaudoove.com/curating/research/overview-writing/
* Curated projects: See https://bureaudoove.com/curating/archive/overview/