Amanda Sarroff

AMANDA SARROFF

Amanda Sarroff is a Brussels-based writer, researcher, and curator in modern and contemporary art and architecture. She contributes regularly to print and online periodicals, among them Artforum's Critics' Picks, as well as to artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. She has written on the work of Jeff Wall, Omer Fast, Artur Zmijewski, Maria Bartuszová, Mircea Cantor and Mohamed Bourouissa, among others, and on subjects ranging from material culture produced under totalitarian regimes, emerging artists from Central Europe and the former Soviet satellite countries, contemporary cinema, and the cultural formations of European postmodernism. She was co-editor of the publication Marrakech Biennale 5. Where Are We Now? (2014), curator of Hiya: Virginia Phongsathorn (Galerie de l’Angle, Paris, 2012), and co-curator of Building and Destruction (Courtauld Gallery, London, 2010). She received a BA from Oberlin College and an MA with distinction in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute.

"About" thumbnail photo: Lea Lublin, Fluvio Subtunal, 1969
Photographer unknown / Courtesy: Estate of the artist & Collection Nicolas Lublin
Exhibition review of Lea Lublin: Retrospective in art press (November 2015).