Defne Ayas
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Defne Ayas (born 1976) is a recognized curator, educator, and publisher working at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, and politics. Ayas is known for conceiving daring exhibition and biennale formats within diverse geographies, in each instance composing collaborative contexts and interdisciplinary frameworks that also provide historical anchoring and engagement with local conditions. Ayas has worked at and with many institutions across the world, including in the Netherlands, China, United States, Italy, and Russia. Currently, Ayas is the Artistic Director of 2020 Gwangju Biennale, together with Natasha Ginwala. She also serves as a curator at large at V-A-C Foundation in Moscow. She was the director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (2012-2017). Towards the end of her tenure in 2017, she announced that the institution had to change its name to dissociate itself from its namesake, the Dutch naval officer Witte Corneliszoon de With. The institution’s decision to change its name was immediately politicized, causing a flurry of controversy in the Netherlands. The decision for a name change was triggered by an Open Letter to Witte de With published on 14 June 2017 by Egbert Alejandro Martina, Ramona Sno, Hodan Warsame, Patricia Schor, Amal Alhaag, and Maria Guggenbichler, and the debates that followed.
