Sarah Farrar
(New Zealand, 1980) is an independent curator and art writer based in Amsterdam and London. From 2007-08 she participated in the Curatorial Programme at de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam. Before moving to the Netherlands, Sarah was employed as Curator at City Gallery Wellington, a contemporary art museum in New Zealand, where she worked from 2003-2007. Sarah has curated over thirty exhibitions of contemporary art, design and architecture and has contributed texts for international art magazines including Artlink (Australia) and LINO (Australia), and art publications in New Zealand, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Nathalie Hartjes
(1981) has an MA in art history and is a freelance critic and writer, project organiser and communcations professional. She was co-ordinator of the Comité van Roosendaal, a platform for debate on cultural political issues, connecting leading contemporary art institutions throughout the Benelux and Rhineland, during its founding phase. In this capacity she realised the international conference Institutional Attitudes (24 & 25 April 2010, Brussels). From 2006 – 2008 she worked at Witte de With (Rotterdam) as a communications officer and assistant to Nicolaus Schafhausen. Her writing has been published in Tubelight magazine, Kunstbeeld, Beton Brut (magazine of Kunstverein Düsseldorf), Pataphor (artist book of Hidde van Schie) and she has written for various art initiatives such as Kunsthuis SYB (Beetsterzwaag) and Galerie West (The Hague), amongst others.
