Rachael Rakes is a curator, arts writer, editor, film programmer, and educator. She is currently Curator for Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst, an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and a Programmer at Large for the Film Society of Lincoln Center—where she co-curates the annual experimental nonfiction festival Art of the Real. Until 2019, she was the Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. She has taught recently for The New School and Harvard Summer School, and advised for Sandberg Institut. Rakes is co-editor of the publication Practice Space (2019, NAME/De Appel) and has recently contributed criticism and essays to Art-Agenda, Artforum, and The Village Voice, among other publications and catalogues. Recent exhibitions and programmes include DECODERS/RECORDERS: Steffani Jemison and Samson Young (De Appel/Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam), Relational Capacities (Frame Contemporary/Amos Rex, Helsinki), On Watching Men (SAIC, Chicago), Dark Progress + Uncontained Energy and Contained Fear (Tabakerlara, San Sebastian), CAMP: In Cameras Res (De Appel), The Health Show II (A.I.R., NYC), In Between: Tacita Dean (Centre Pompidou, Paris), EVAN IFEKOYA: A Score, A Groove, A Phantom, A Congregation (De Appel), On Documentary Abstraction (Oolite Arts (Miami), Estructuras de la Razón (Walgreens, Miami), BEN RUSSELL: It is Here, It Will Last Forever (De Appel), and Formal Complaint (Knockdown Center, NYC). Rakes ongoingly researches tools of ethnographic refusal in visual and audio practices, and forms of radical abstraction and coding in art and everyday life.