KNUT BIRKHOLZ (*DE, based in NL, info@@knutbirkholz.nl) mostly worked in curating exhibitions, architectural journalism and art criticism. As a co-curator or adviser he was involved in so far roughly 25 exhibition projects, mostly in Germany and in the Netherlands. In 2007, he was nominated for the German Literaturpreis "Open Mike." He has published literary work in art exhibitions, anthologies, and literary magazines. Since 2018, he is program manager of the International Studio Program of the ACC Galerie and the City of Weimar (Germany). In 2020, the German publisher parasitenpresse published his translation of the poetry collection "Wavelengths of Your Song" by Canadian writer Eleonore Schönmaier. Knut received a grant from Deutscher Übersetzerfonds (Germany) to initiate the translation of the poetry collection "Groenboek" by Dutch writer Herman Hendrik ter Balkt. As an assistant curator of art initiative Manifolds Books Amsterdam he was involved in their year program 2019/2020. Since 2023, he has been external adviser for the Amsterdam Funds for the Arts. His first bundle of prose-poems, "Robinson des Braunkohlereviers" (‘Robinson of the brown coal mining area’), is set to be published in 2026 in Germany. He is currently expanding his work field by combining literary and visual storytelling in minimal installations that focus especially on his ambivalent childhood and youth in a village in the GDR, on family history, and on transgenerational re-enactment within larger socio-historical contexts in Germany and the Netherlands. - A selection of recent projects: