Dr Gerrie van Noord
Gerrie is an editor and educator. She is interested in publishing as an environment for the articulation of and critical reflection on creative practices.
Building on a longstanding career as an editor of art publishing projects, ranging from catalogues to artists’ books and websites, and from critical anthologies to peer-reviewed journals. Gerrie approaches publishing as an integral and expansive area of artistic and curatorial practice.
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Research interests
Gerrie’s practice and research focus on publications as sites for articulation in relation to both artistic and curatorial practices. She is particularly interested in expanded understandings of collaboration and authorship.
In her research she considers the potential of publishing as an environment for the exploration and manifestation of ‘the curatorial’, which foregrounds process and collaboration and in which notions of agency are continuously re-negotiated. In her work, Gerrie not only considers publishing’s spatial and material traditions, genealogies and affordances, but also approaches to mediation and translation, and most importantly, different understandings of authorship. Within all this, she positions publications as active explorations of a discursive and reflective approach to curatorial practice. Focusing on these intersecting concerns, she gained a PhD in Arts & Humanities from Birkbeck, University of London in 2021.
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Van Noord, G., ed. (2026). Reaching Out: A Book on Agency, Care, Identity and….Helsinki: Rooftop Press.
Van Noord. G. (2026). Closing the Gap: Writing a Curatorial PhD to Practise Differently. In: B. Haylock, C. Anderson, J. Wilkinson, eds., Thinking Back, Moving Forward: Artistic Research in Practice. Amsterdam: Valiz.
Van Noord, G. (2025). Paralog. In: P. O’Neill, Beyond Caring: Para-Hosting as Curatorial Escape. Berlin: Floating Opera Press.
O’Neill, P. & Van Noord. G., eds. (2024).Curious. London: Open Editions.
Van Noord, G. (2024). Beyond Hierarchy: Articulating Collaboration. In: P. O’Neill with G. van Noord and E. Larison, eds. Not Going It Alone: Collective, Curatorial Curating. New York: apexart, pp. 119–126.
Szefer-Karlsen, A. and Van Noord, G., eds. (2024) Responses #2 – Opinions Informed by Practice. Bergen: University of Bergen.
Mick Wilson and Paul O’Neill, eds. (2023). Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life, London: Sternberg Press (managing editor).
Van Noord, G. (2022). Finding a Voice within a Cacophony. In A. Szefer-Karlsen and G. van Noord, eds. Responses #1– Opinions Informed by Practice. Bergen: University of Bergen, pp. 158-165.
Van Noord, G. (2022). Paying Attention: Pamela Golden’s Insistent Precision. Catalogue text Pamela Golden: Phantom Creeps. London: New Art Projects.
El Baroni, B., ed. (2022). Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art. London: Sternberg Press (managing editor).
Plender, O. (2021). Artis’s website,(editor).
Van Noord, G. ed. (2020). Isabel Nolan: curling up with reality, Dublin/London: Kerlin Gallery/Launch Pad.
O’Neill, P., Sheikh, S., Steeds, L, and Wilson, M. eds. (2019). Curating after the Global: Roadmaps for the Present, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (managing editor).
O’Neill, P., Steeds, L, and Wilson, M. eds. (2017). How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (managing editor).
O’Neill, P., Steeds, L, and Wilson, M. eds. (2016). The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice?, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (managing editor).
External collaborations and activities
Board Member of independent artists’ books publisher Book Works, London.
Practice
Gerrie was managing editor of three critical curatorial anthologies (The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice?, 2016; How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse, 2017; and Curating after the Global: Roadmaps for the Present, 2019) and Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re -examination and Speculation in Art (2022). With artist Olivia Plender she worked on the book Rise Early, Be Industrious (2016) and subsequently on a website of the artist's entire body of work (2021). She edited Curling Up with Reality (2020), a selection of artist Isabel Nolan’s writing. More recently she co-edited Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life (with Paul O'Neill and Mick Wilson, 2023), Not Going It Alone: Collective Curatorial Curating (with Paul O'Neill and Elizabeth Larison, 2024) and Curious (with Paul O'Neill, 2024). Working with members of youth boards affiliated with PRAKSIS (Oslo), Index (Stockholm) and PUBLICS (Helsinki) she helped develop and edited Reaching Out: A Book about Agency, Care, Identity and…(2026). Gerrie has also worked for PARSE Journal, an online, open-access peer-reviewed journal of artistic research, since 2015.