Drs. Ton Geerts

Curriculum vitae and duties

Ton Geerts studied Art History & Archaeology at Utrecht University. He worked for several years at the Bilderdijk Museum in Amsterdam and for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 1998 and 2009, he was a curator at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, where he organized over forty exhibitions in both old and modern art. 

Since 2009, he has been working at the RKD as a senior curator of modern and contemporary art. He contributed to several digital publications in the RKD Studies series (Jan Sluijters, Peter Vos, Charles Donker, Frans Pannekoek, and Art & Project). He publishes on a wide range of visual arts topics, focusing in recent years particularly on art and artists' books from the 1960-1980 period.
 

Nevenativiteiten

• Chairman at Nederlandse Portretprijs
• board member at Brokken-Zyp Foundation of modern and contemporary art
• Advisor for Stichting Herbert Fielder
• Member of Werkgroep Netwerk Designarchieven en Digitale Cultuur

Publications (selection)

• 2024
  ‘Art & Project: the forgotten ephemera’, in: Jonathan Hill (ed.), Art & Project: Everything but the bulletins, 1967-1978, New York 2024, pp. 8-11
• 2023
  ‘Printing Matters. Art & Project:’Documentation Centre with a Sales Section for Books’, in: Jannet de Goede, Lisette Pelsers (ed.), Art & Project: a History, Otterlo, Rotterdam 2023, pp. 480-497
  
  ‘An Archive as the Result of ‘Engaging with Art Every Day’: The Art & Project Archive’ in: Jannet de Goede, Lisette Pelsers (ed.), Art & Project: a History, Otterlo, Rotterdam 2023, pp. 370-379
  
  Art & Project/Depot VBVR: collections and archive, The Hague 2023 (digitale publicatie in de reeks RKDStudies: www.rkdstudies.nl)
• 2020
  ‘Het Bilderdijk-raadsel: boerenbedriegers en rebussen in de collectie’, in: Rick Honings & Gert-Jan Johannes (red.), Een sublieme nalatenschap: de erfenis van Willem Bilderdijk, Leiden: Leiden University Press 2020, pp. 61-66
• 2015
  'Verschijnen en verdwijnen: identiteit en zelfportret als artistiek medium', in: Mirjam Westen e.a., Spiegeloog: het zelfportret in de Nederlandse kunst 1900-2015, Arnhem 2015, pp. 16-23
• 2013
  ‘Willem Sanders’, ‘Marien Schouten’, ‘Han Schuil’, ‘Emo Verkerk’, in: Emine Kara, Han Schuil, Loes Visch, Gerrit Willems (red.), Stop Making Sense: Nederlandse schilderkunst uit de jaren ’80, Zwolle 2013, pp. 114-115, 122-125, 126-129, 132-135
• 2013
  Review: ‘A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More. The Collection and Archives of Herman and Nicole Daled 1966-1978, Cologne 2010’, in: The Burlington Magazine  CLV (2013), febr. , p. 111
• 2011
  ‘Interview with Adriaan van Ravesteijn on the Art & Project Bulletins, May 17, 2011’, in: Louise Riley-Smith (ed.), Art & Project Bulletins 1-156, September 1968-November 1989, London, Paris 2011, pp. 63-84