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Defne Ayas (born 1976) is an internationally distinguished arts administrator and publisher in the field of contemporary visual art and its institutions. She is currently the director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rotterdam's Witte de With Museum Picks Performa's Defne Ayas as Director )〕 == Career == At Witte de With, Ayas oversees an exhibition and publication program devoted to established and emerging artists, writers, and curators from across the globe. Since her arrival in 2012, she has commissioned long-term projects, group exhibitions and solo projects, including Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland (2015), Character is Fate by Willem de Rooij (2015), Moderation(s) by artist Heman Chong (with Spring, Hong Kong, 2012-2014); Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists (with UCCA, Beijing, 2014); The Humans – a theatrical play by writer and artist Alexandre Singh〔http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/arts/design/performance-art-that-looks-a-lot-like-theater.html〕 – and its monthly summits Causeries (2012-2013); the open archive and collection Tulkus 1880 to 2018 by artist Paola Pivi (with Castello di Rivoli and Arthub Asia, 2013-2018),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paola Pivi - Tulkus 1880 to 2018 - )〕 Blueprints by Qiu Zhijie (2012) as well as the award-winning exhibition The Temptation of AA Bronson (2013).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A ‘self-portrait’ of AA Bronson, by many artists in many rooms )〕 Ayas has worked on a number of biennial projects such as: curator of the Pavilion of Turkey 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pavilion of Turkey 2015 )〕 in the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=‘Respiro’ opens at Turkish Pavilion in Venice - ARTS )〕 co-curator the 6th Moscow Biennale ACTING IN A CENTER IN A CITY IN THE HEART OF THE ISLAND OF EURASIA〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kate Sutton at the 6th Moscow Biennale )〕 (with Nicolaus Schafhausen and Bart de Baere); curator of the 11th Baltic Triennale 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frieze Magazine - Archive - Archive - 11th Baltic Triennial of International Art )〕 (with Benjamin Cook, LUX, in collaboration with artists Ieva Misevičiūtė and Michael Portnoy ); co-curator of the Istanbul and Bandung city pavilions as part of the Intercity Project of the 9th Shanghai Biennale. Ayas also served as a curatorial advisor to the 8th Shanghai Biennale (China), and as a publication advisor to the 8th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea) in 2010. Ayas has been a curator of PERFORMA, the biennial of visual art performance of New York, since its inception in 2005. At Performa, Ayas organized projects and programs with an international roster of acclaimed artists, architects, and writers; while overseeing biennial’s architecture, writing and print programs and its consortium relations. She remains a Curator-at-Large (as of 2012).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Performa )〕 Prior to joining Witte de With in 2012, Ayas co-founded Arthub Asia – an Asia-wide active research and production initiative (with Davide Quadrio) (2007). Prior to joining Arthub Asia and Performa, she was the Public Programs Coordinator of New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, especially artists presentations and critical debates relating to contemporary art and new media. (2003-2005) Ayas is the founding co-curator (with Neery Melkonian) of Blind Dates Project – an artistic platform that is dedicated to tackling what remains of the peoples, places and cultures of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1923).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blind Dates Project. Nafas Art Magazine )〕 She is a Board member of the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam); a curatorial board member of PAC (Milan), an advisory board member to Jan Van Eyck Academy (Maastricht), Collectorspace (Istanbul), Sabanci Museum (Istanbul), SAHA (Istanbul), Protocinema (Istanbul) and Art Review Asia (Beijing); and a curator at large of Spring Workshop (Hong Kong). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Defne Ayas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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