Kris Dittel

Kris Dittel (The Netherlands/Slovakia) is a curator, editor and writer. Her practice is driven by long-term research projects that materialize in various forms, including exhibitions, publications, public events, performances, texts, talks, and more.
Her most recent project, Unruly Kinships, included an exhibition, a study group series, and an event program, co-curated with Aneta Rostkowska (Temporary Gallery CCA, Cologne 2022-24). This project explored possibilities of kinship beyond the nuclear family and examined ways we may form relations with/in the world.

Her recent co-edited volumes include Unruly Kinships (Jap Sam Books, Temporary Gallery CCA, 2025) with Aneta Rotskowska, and a children’s book Life with Fifi (_BÖKS, 2025), with Angelica Falkeling. With Clem Edwards, Kris Dittel co-edited The Material Kinship Reader (Onomatopee, 2022, 2025), which addresses material relations beyond extraction and kinship beyond the nuclear family.

At Rupert Kris will work on a chapter of her ongoing writing project, The Infinite Love Letter, which  merges the intimacy of the epistolary form with theoretical and personal inquiry. It revolves around the question of desire as a destabilizing force, one that opens us up for a possibility. In this ongoing writing Kris contemplates how “disorderly desires” have long been perceived as a threat to the white patriarchal order, and the (political) question of whose pleasure has been, and continues to be, acknowledged and taken seriously.