Catalogue published on the occasion of Manders' exhibition in the Dutch Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. With an introduction by Lorenzo Benedetti (curator of the Pavilion) and contributions by 37 international writers who were invited to give a personal reflection on one aspect of Self-Portrait as a Building. For this, Manders supplied them with an image and a title to which they could respond. Editing and design: Roger Willems and Mark Manders.

Authors: Lorenzo Benedetti, Birgit Donker, Mark Manders. Guest Authors: Maxwell L. Anderson (Eugene McDermott director, Dallas Museum of Art); Maria Barnas (poet, writer, artist) Stephan Berg (director, Kunstmuseum Bonn); Achim Borchardt-Hume (head of Exhibitions, Tate Modern, London); Saskia Bos (dean, Cooper Union, New York); Philippe Van Cauteren (director, S.M.A.K., Ghent); Doryun Chong (curator, MoMA, New York); Penelope Curtis (director, Tate Britain, London); Nickel van Duijvenboden (writer, artist); Peter Eleey (curator, MoMA P.S.1, New York); Douglas Fogle (curator, writer); Gary Garrels (curator, SFMoMA, San Francisco); Jeffrey Grove (Hoffman family senior curator of contemporary art, Dallas Museum of Art); Hans den Hartog Jager (art critic, writer); Jan Hoet (curator); Laura Hoptman (curator, MoMA, New York); Wonne Ickx (architect, Productora, Mexico City); Yukie Kamiya (curator, Hiroshima MoCA); Toby Kamps (curator, Menil Foundation, Houston); Mami Kataoka (curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo); Vincenzo Latronico (writer, art critic); Maaike Lauwaert (writer, curator, Stroom Den Haag); Jean-Hubert Martin (curator); François Piron (curator); Philippe Pirotte (curator, University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive); Yasmil Raymond (curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York); Hans Rudolf Reust (art critic); Lon Robbé (artist); Dieter Roelstraete (curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago); Ralph Rugoff (director, Hayward Gallery, London); Nancy Spector (curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York); Susan Lubowsky Talbott (director, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford); Mirjam Varadinis (curator, Kunsthaus Zürich); Olga Viso (director, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); Joel Wachs (director, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York); Ida van Zijl (curator, Centraal Museum, Utrecht); Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and director, Aspen Art Museum).

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