The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art Evening Public Lecture Series

Defne Ayas is the Director of Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where she oversees the exhibition and publication programs devoted to established and emerging artists, writers, and curators from across the globe. Since her arrival in 2012, she has conceived, commissioned and (co)-curated long-term projects, group exhibitions and solo projects, including Relational Stalinism by Michael Portnoy (2016), three-part Art in the Age of… series (with focus on energy and raw materials, asymmetric warfare and planetary computation) (2015), Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland (2015), Character is Fate by Willem de Rooij (2015)