Current Residents Charles Esche
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Gathering at the Experimental Station and Three Ashes, May 2026
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The Experimental Station for Research into Art and Life
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One of the Three Ashes
Charles Esche is a writer and curator based in Amsterdam and is developing the Three Ashes Foundation with members of transit.ro on land near Bucharest. For a number of years, through writing and exhibitions, he has proposed the concept of demodernising as a way for western Europeans to approach the challenge of decolonial thinking. He is a professor of contemporary art and curating at University of the Arts, London; adviser at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. He directed the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven 2004-24 and Rooseum in Malmö 2000-2004.
I hope to meet Finnish-based artists and curators and get to know the artistic and international institutional infrastructure better. I will also often be in my studio writing my PhD and editing a forthcoming book for Sternberg Press called Never There Yet about the condition of curating today. I also hope to travel a little in Finland to get beyond Helsinki.
Charles Esche’s residency is realised in collaboration with Frame Contemporary Art Finland.