Irene de Craen

Irene de Craen is the editor-in-chief and founding director of Errant Journal. Previously, she founded the research platform Undercurrents, which aims to question the relation between historic and present-day instances of movement such as colonialism, trade and migration, as well as the infrastructure and significance of mobility within the cultural field. Between 2014 and 2018 De Craen was the artistic director of Hotel Maria Kapel, an artist-in-residence, exhibition space and cinema for contemporary visual art in Hoorn, and in 2011 and 2012 she was co-organizer and curator at FATFORM, an interdisciplinary and experimental art platform in the Southeast of Amsterdam. As researcher and board member, De Craen was part of Platform BK (Platform for Visual Arts) between 2013 and 2019, which helped establish the guideline for artists’ fees in the Netherlands in 2017. Additionally, she has contributed to many national and international publications and magazines, among others Metropolis M, and Frieze.