Kerstin Winking is a curator, writer, and historical researcher whose work centres on modern and contemporary art from the twentieth century to the present. She is also a PhD candidate at the Institute for History at Leiden University and a guest researcher at KITLV.

Kerstin has a background in art history and museum studies and has a research master’s degree in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. Her field of research is the international socio-cultural contexts in which modern and contemporary art is created, exhibited, and discussed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is particularly interested in the emancipatory potential of art and the relationships between art and politics. For her dissertation research, she concentrates on the work and networks of modern artists in and from (colonial) Indonesia in the Bandung Era. 

Selected Publications

Winking, Kerstin, ‘Zaritsky/Rusli: A multidirectional approach to curating international modern art’,  Stedelijk Studies Journal 14, 2024.  

Winking, Kerstin, 'Kunst met een grote of kleine i: Over de recente populariteit van inheemse kunst', Metropolis M 2, pp. 36-41, 2024. 

Winking, Kerstin, 'The postcolonial condition after Enwezor: Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Meeting assesses a curatorial legacy', Art Asia Pacific 134, pp. 33-34, 2023. 

Winking, Kerstin, ‘Citra Sasmita: Imagined cosmologies’, Art Asia Pacific 133, pp. 34-36, 2023. 

Winking, Kerstin, 'Amol K. Patil: Poetic power', Art Asia Pacific 129, pp. 37-39, 2022.