Rachel Esner

Rachel Esner is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in 19th-century French art and photography, on which she has published widely, as well as in the history of collections, museology and curating. She is currently researching the history of exhibitions in the Netherlands in a long-term project entitled ‘Documenting Curatorial Practice in Dutch Art Museums, 1945-Today’, and is a founding member of the research platform ‘Women in the Dutch Art World: Collectors, Curators, Critics’ (in conjunction with the Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum and the RKD).