Ann Demeester (Brugge, 1975) is currently director of de Appel Arts Centre and head of de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam. She is on the editorial board of the magazines A-Prior and F.R. David and has written recent essays on Michael Borremans, Jennifer Tee, Salla Tykka and Nicolas Floc’h. After studying literature and linguistics within the field of Germanic Languages she worked as an editor and art critic for the Belgian national newspapers De Morgen and De Financieel-Economische Tijd. From 2000 onwards she worked as an assistant curator for Jan Hoet in both the SMAK, Museum for Contemporary Art in Gent (BE) and Museum MartA Herford (DE) where she realized exhibitions and projects with e.g. Luc Tuymans and Raoul De Keyser, Rui Chafes, Royden Rabinowitch, Rob Birza, Joe Scanlan and Bjarne Melgaard. From 2003 till 2006 she functioned as director of W139 production and presentation platform for contemporary art in Amsterdam and alongside programming, managed the renovation and acquisition of the art space. Demeester has recently been appointed curator – in collaboration with Kestutis Kuizinas -  for the Baltic Triennial in Vilnius which takes place in 2009.

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