Henk Slager

Henk Slager is a Dutch professor, curator, and writer whose work focuses on artistic research and visual art. He has held professorships at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham Trent University, and HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, where he also served as dean of the MaHKU Graduate School of Visual Art and Design. Slager co-initiated the European Artistic Research Network and has served as an artistic research adviser to the European Research Council.

His publications include The Pleasure of Research, The Postresearch Condition, Archeology of Art Theory, and Challenging Institutionalization: A Propositional Toolkit for Doing Supervision of Artistic and Practice-Based Research, which he co-edited with Maibritt Borgen, Jacob Lund, Iris van der Tuin, and Maria Hlavajova.