Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern

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Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern (born 1946 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch art historian and curator. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Ateliers ’63 (1968–1972) and at KU Leuven (art history, criticism and conservation, 1972–1974). He began his career at the Van Abbemuseum in 1977, helped found the De Fabriek artists’ initiative in 1980, and was assistant director of Sonsbeek 86. In 1987 he became director of Arti et Amicitiae, and in 1990 moved to the Rotterdamse Kunststichting. There he organized Rotterdam Assorti at the Hotel New York and Verwantschappen at the Rotterdam Kunsthal. He coordinated Europe’s first Manifesta in Rotterdam in 1996. From 1999 to 2006 he led TENT Rotterdam for the CBK, and later worked on international CBK projects such as Paramaribo SPAN. Between 2010 and 2011 he advised the André Volten Foundation and then worked as a freelance curator, researcher and writer. He has lectured on German painters and interviewed Reynaldo Chirino for Bik Van Der Pol, participated in André Smits’ Artist in the World project, and in 2014 published a book about Curaçaoan artist Yubi Kirindongo.