Laurie Cluitmans

Curator of Contemporary Art
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Laurie Cluitmans is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and works as an independent art critic and curator. Past curated exhibitions include He Disappeared into Complete Silence: Rereading a Single Artwork by Louise Bourgeois (2011); a group exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem (i.c.w. Arnisa Zeqo); Tribute to an Avenue (2013-2014); Liesbeth Labeur, Nachthutje in de Komkommerhof (2014-2015); Where the Sidewalk Ends (2015); Saskia Noor van Imhoff #+21.00 (2016). In 2016 Cluitmans was awarded the Prize for Young Art Critics 2016 for her essay ‘The possibility of a garden’, on the gardens of Derek Jarman and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Forthcoming exhibitions are solo projects with Pauline Curnier Jardin, Ansuya Blom and Mounira Al Solh. In addition, Cluitmans is working on new long-term research on (m)otherhood in the arts in collaboration with Heskte ten Cate, to culminate in an exhibition at the museum in 2025. Cluitmans is a regular contributor to magazines such as MetropolisM and De Witte Raaf.

Laurie Cluitmans visited Vienna on a research trip as part of the exchange with the Mondriaan Fonds in 2023.

Laurie Cluitmans, Photo: courtesy of the curator.