Nick Aikens
Nick Aikens is a curator, researcher, editor and educator. He is the Managing Editor and Research Responsible for L’Internationale Online. He assumed his role in August 2023 as part of the four year, EU funded project ’Museum of the Commons’.
Nick has a PhD from HDK-Valand, part of Gothenburg University and academic partner of L'Internationale. He was previously Curator at the Van Abbemuseum (2012–2023) where he worked on numerous exhibitions and publications as well as leading the research programme Deviant Practice (2016–2019). He was a tutor and course leader at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem (2012–2019) and Guest Professor in the department of Exhibitions and Scenography at Karlsruhe University (2023–2024).
Last updated 2 Feb 2024
Towards Collective Learning, or, Decompartmentalizing Education
María Berríos, Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Nick Aikens
Situated Organizations
Rewinding Internationalism
Editors' Picks: Nick Aikens
Nick Aikens
Editors' Picks
The Kitchen, an Introduction to Subversive Film with Nick Aikens, Reem Shilleh and Mohanad Yaqubi
Nick Aikens, Subversive Film
lumbung
Past in the Present
Van Abbemuseum
Fail Better – Artistic Interventionism in Dakar in the 1990s and Today: Nick Aikens in conversation with Clémentine Deliss
Nick Aikens, Clémentine Deliss
Preparing to Exit: Art, Interventionism and the 1990s
Nick Aikens, David Crowley
From/To. Letters From/To the Constituent Museum
A walk-through the exhibition ‘MONOCULTURE – A Recent History’ at M HKA (Antwerp), with Nick Aikens and Nav Haq in conversation
Nick Aikens, Nav Haq
Monoculture
M HKA
Introduction, Living with Ghosts
Nick Aikens, Jyoti Mistry, Corina Oprea
Glossary of Common Knowledge
The Long 1980s. Constellations of Art, Politics and Identities
The 1980s. Today's Beginnings? An alternative view on the 80s
Van Abbemuseum
