Archive of Author | Ariane Koek

About Ariane Koek

Ariane Koek is an independent and international vision maker, producer, writer, and curator who designs and delivers new cultural programs working across different knowledge systems, including arts science technology and ecology. She is well-known for initiating in 2009 the Arts at CERN program, designing, delivering, and directing it for the first five years at the world’s largest physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to CERN, Koek was National Director of the Arvon Foundation for Creative Writing (2006-2008) and a BBC staff producer working in both radio and television (1990-2006). She has worked on a variety of cultural projects with international organisations including the Exploratorium San Francisco, USA. In 2016 she was also Artist in residence at Nida Art Colony, Lithuania. She has a special interest in the entangling of the human, ecology, and technology. She co-curated “Real Feelings: Emotion and Technology” which was shown at HeK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel) and MU Hybrid House (Eindhoven), and “Related Realities,” the Nordic Photography Triennale in Tampere, Finland. She was on the jury this year both for the BAD (Bio Arts and Design) awards in the Netherlands and the Panasonic special prize in the FAB awards, Japan. In 2021 she was invited to be a Creative Director of the official virtual Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture where she showcased “Witness,” an installation by artist Emma Critchley which links the breath and the body of the human with that of the Earth’s atmosphere and the planet itself.

Ariane Koek is an independent and international vision maker, producer, writer, and curator who designs and delivers new cultural programs working across different knowledge systems, including arts science technology and ecology. She is well-known for initiating in 2009 the Arts at CERN program, designing, delivering, and directing it for the first five years at the world’s largest physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

Prior to CERN, Koek was National Director of the Arvon Foundation for Creative Writing (2006-2008) and a BBC staff producer working in both radio and television (1990-2006).

She has worked on a variety of cultural projects with international organisations including the Exploratorium San Francisco, USA. In 2016 she was also Artist in residence at Nida Art Colony, Lithuania.

She has a special interest in the entangling of the human, ecology, and technology. She co-curated “Real Feelings: Emotion and Technology” which was shown at HeK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel) and MU Hybrid House (Eindhoven), and “Related Realities,” the Nordic Photography Triennale in Tampere, Finland.

She was on the jury this year both for the BAD (Bio Arts and Design) awards in the Netherlands and the Panasonic special prize in the FAB awards, Japan. In 2021 she was invited to be a Creative Director of the official virtual Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture where she showcased “Witness,” an installation by artist Emma Critchley which links the breath and the body of the human with that of the Earth’s atmosphere and the planet itself.

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Articles with Ariane Koek

The Matter of Time

Ariane Koek is a British independent producer, curator and writer recognised internationally for her transdisciplinary work in arts, science, technology and in the creation of new residency programmes. She was the initiator and founder of Arts at CERN (2009 – 2015) – the first officially organised international arts programme by CERN – the world’s leading particle physics laboratory, Geneva, Switzerland. In this article she discusses the work of Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist François Quévillon, who explores the interactions among environmental changes, societal issues, and technological developments.