Jurriaan Benschop is a Dutch writer, art critic and curator who is based in Berlin. He is a regular contributor to Artforum International and DAMn* magazine. He published several books, among them De Berg van Cézanne (2006, essays on painting and photography, in Dutch) and Francis Bacon, Graphic Work (2014).

Visual Clichés - DAMN° Magazine

Visual Clichés

Adrian Ghenie and his colourful noir Adrian Ghenie is a Romanian artist who chooses not to utilise the traditional tools of the painter, but rather to rely on alternative means […]

Is That Birdsong? - DAMN° Magazine

Is That Birdsong?

Carsten Höller’s alternative nature   Approaching art-making from a science-of-plants-and-animals perspective, Carsten Höller creates rather unusual works that refer, either directly or indirectly, to one or the other of these ...

The Museum in Times of Crisis - DAMN° Magazine

The Museum in Times of Crisis

A snapshot of (arte)facts Though not a cheery topic, it is worthwhile to reflect on the current situation regarding cultural institutions worldwide in today’s less-than-favourable financial climate. Taking as examples […]

How to Recount History? - DAMN° Magazine

How to Recount History?

Monika Sosnowska on the bent truth Rapt by the mélange of built references to the powerful communist past and the overzealous structures of the present, Monika Sosnowska has every intention […]

A State of Becoming - DAMN° Magazine

A State of Becoming

Delving deep with Anish Kapoor You would be mistaken to think that Anish Kapoor’s sculptures are all about exquisiteness of form, when, in fact, they are actually about its negation. […]