Artist

Iersel Michiel van


Iersel Michiel van
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Exhibitions Come Closer: Netochka Nezvanova – ‘the most feared woman on the internet’, Come Closer: Notorious B.I.G. alias Biggie Smalls - are you ready to die?, Come Closer: Crying Violet, Come Closer: Dive into the Future, Come Closer: Opening, Hidden Tales and the City Carillonneur, Come Closer: Sound Performance Zeno van den Broek and Artist Talk Organist Jacob Lekkerkerker, Come Closer: Astrofysica Sera Markoff on the Infinity of Space, Come Closer: Performance by DNK Ensemble & Wunderbaum, Come Closer: Red Light Radio Tower Transmission, Come Closer: Spotting Bats with Urban Ecologist Anneke Blokker, Come Closer: City Life Talk Show with Tracy Metz, Come Closer: Architect Malkit Shoshan, Theologian Jan-Jaap Stegeman and Others About the Sacred and the Profane, Come Closer: Oude Kerk Square – Then, Now and Later, Come Closer: Philosopher Laureate of the Netherlands Marli Huijer in Conversation with Frank Meester, Come Closer: Finissage and Performance by Noah Voelker, Standing Still at the Oude Kerk, New Time for the Oude Kerk, Come Closer: Discovering the Oude Kerk and Marinus Boezem, Come Closer: Sound Performance by Mehraneh Atashi and Lecture by Patrick Healy, Come Closer: Urban Ecologist Geert Timmermans on Amsterdam's Biodiversity, Come Closer: Audiovisual Collective Volle Band and Mathematician, Artist Hans Kuiper, Come Closer: Performance DNK Ensemble and Geometrical Performance Waèl el Allouche, Come Closer: Singing Bowls Kees Huges and Performative Lecture by Valery Vermeulen
Artist

Iersel Michiel van

Michiel van Iersel (NL, 1978) works as an urbanist and curator at the intersection of the arts, architecture, urban transformation, and ecology. He started his career as a curator at various (visual) arts institutions, before founding the cultural collective Non-fiction with others. In addition, Michiel co-founded De Verdieping (2010 - 2015), the experimental cultural programme of club and restaurant TrouwAmsterdam, and the international research platform Failed Architecture. From 2013 - 2018, he (co)directed several programmes at the Oude Kerk, including New Time for the Oude Kerk, Come Closer, and Misericordia. In 2015/2016, he co-curated the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and from 2018/2019 he was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.


He currently holds the role of Program Lead of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation at ETH Zurich. Michiel has over two decades of experience advising and (re)activating a wide mix of (civil society) organisations, including UNESCO, the City of Amsterdam and several other cultural institutions and governments. Michiel regularly lectures and writes in various media on topical issues and was, among other things, co-author of the book Rewriting Architecture 10+1 Actions for an Adaptive Architecture (Valiz, 2020).


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