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Delphine Bedel

Photographer, curator and editor. Founding director Amsterdam Art/Book Fair.

Photographer, curator editor. Founding Director Amsterdam Art/Book Fair and Monospace Press, an international platform for art, design and publishing.

Lecturer at the M.F.A. HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design, and founding editor of the artist books series Hard Copy. My website

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Delphine Bedel is an artist, curator and editor based in Amsterdam. Founding director of Monospace Press, an international platform for contemporary art, theory and publishing, and co-founder and artistic director of the Amsterdam Art/Book Fair. Lecturer at the M.F.A. HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design, and founding editor of the artist books series Hard Copy.

Her artistic and research-based practice involves documentary photography, writing, curating, publishing and lectures. Her work is shown internationally, among others at Centre Pompidou, Paris, Secession Vienna, and De Lakenhal Museum, Leiden.

Bedel curated over forty international exhibitions, events and screenings, among others ‘Beyond Paradise’, at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, ‘Shared History/Decolonising the Image’ at W139 and Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, ‘The Experience of Atopia’ at Breda Photo 2008. She was co-director of Etablissement d'en face in Brussels (1994-97).

Her editorial work with artist and designers (over fifty books) explores the relation between emerging art pratices and graphic design. Bedel was tutor at the Rietveld Academie, associated professor at the MFA DAI/Artez, and Head of the artist books collection produced in partnership with Werkplaats Typografie. She recently published ‘All that is solid melts into air - Notes on Tourism’ and a new photographic essay is forthcoming.