Thomas Jakob Berghuis is a curator, art historian, and former museum director based in Leiden, Netherlands.
From 2008 to 2013 Berghuis worked as a lecturer in Asian Art at the University of Sydney. [1] From 2013 to May 2015 he was the Robert H. N. Ho Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, [2] after which he Berghuis moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to become the first director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), launched in January 2016. [1]
Berghuis has been a lecturer in art history with the University of Amsterdam; [3][ when?] a Board Member of Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice in Amsterdam; [4] and an honorary principal fellow with the School of Culture & Communication at The University of Melbourne, Australia. [5][ when?]
Berghuis has curated and co-curated several exhibitions, including Edge of Elsewhere (2010–2012) with the Sydney Festival at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Campbelltown Arts Centre, co-curated with Lisa Havilah and Aaron Seeto; [6] Suspended Histories at Museum Van Loon, 2012–2014; [7] Wang Jianwei: Time Temple at the Guggenheim; [8] and Crossing the Tide, the Tuvalu Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale. [9]
Berghuis is a Member of AICA, Australia;[ further explanation needed] a Member of ICOM-US;[ further explanation needed] and in 2016 Berghuis was nominated as a participant and member of the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium (GMLC), hosted by the director's office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [10]
He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art; [11] and diˈvan | A Journal of Accounts ( UNSW Press, Australia). [12] His writings have been published in Third Text; Theory, Culture, and Society; Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique; and the Journal of Visual Art Practice.[ citation needed]