Lisette Smits
Lisette Smits is a curator, researcher, and educator who works in the field of art and society. She co-founded and co-runs the School of Kindness (since 2021), a performative, discursive and educational platform currently working in Bulgaria. She curates cross-disciplinary programs and develops intersectional curricula, working with different groups and audiences. Her research is engaged with forms of migration and states of in-betweenness; ideas of radicality; the agency of voice; and kindness as a method.
Amongst her achievements are artistic director of Casco Institute, Utrecht (1995 – 2005) and course director of Master of Voice (Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, 2016 – 2018). She has curated numerous large-scale exhibitions, notably “Depression”, “Madam Realism” and “Deep Cuts” (Marres, Maastricht, 2009 – 2013) as well as performative and educational programs like “The Applicant” (ABA Berlin, 2016) and “Other Voices/ Summer Course” (Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, 2019). She has taught internationally and was a long-term lecturer at Gerrit Rietveld Academy and De Appel both in Amsterdam.