ANNA COLIN

Curator, educator, researcher, gardener

Links to a selection of publications I have (co)edited or contributed to over the last decade.



Chaleur Humaine, 2023


Co-editor, with Camille Richert, of the exhibition Chaleur Humaine, Frac Grand Large Hauts-de-France and LAAC Museum, Dunkirk.

Publisher: Silvana Editoriale, Milan
Graphic design: in the shade of a tree
Authors: Sophie Cras, Jérôme Denis & David Pontille, Harriet Hawkins, François Jarrige, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Tiphaine Calmettes, Rob Crosse, Suzanne Husky, Simone Prouvé, Anna Colin, Camille Richert, Henriette Gillerot






Francesc Ruiz: Panal, 2020


Co-editor, with Francesc Ruiz, of the catalogue of the exhibition Panal at CA2M, Móstoles/Madrid. For the digital version of the exhibition catalogue, click here.

Publisher: CA2M, Móstoles/Madrid
Graphic design: ferranElOtro Studio
Authors: Calogero Giametta and Richard John Jones, Ilan Manouach, Francesc Ruiz and Anna Colin, Marina Otero Verzier






Hella Jongerius : Entrelacs, une recherche tissée / Interlace, Woven Research, 2019


Co-editor, with Jongeriuslab, of the catalogue of the exhibition Interlace at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne / New York
Graphic Design: Irma Boom
Authors: Hans den Hartog Jager, Alice Rawsthorn, Anne Röhl, Christel Vesters
Publisher: CA2M, Móstoles/Madrid






Le Centre ne peut tenir/The Centre Cannot Hold, 2018


Co-editor, with Charles Aubin and François Quintin, of the catalogue of the exhibition Le Centre ne peut tenir / The Centre Cannot Hold at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.

Publisher: Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
Graphic design: Catalogue Général
Authors: Charles Aubin, Anna Colin, Katherine Gibson, Guillaume Houzé, Francesca Hunt, Hicham Khalidi, Katja Kwastek, Pap Ndiaye, Temi Odumuso, Naomi Pearce, François Quintin, Maboula Soumahoro, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Andrew Spacey, Rolando Vazquez






Five Takes on Collaborative Practice and Working with Artists, Non-artists and Institutions, 2016


An introduction and five interviews on community arts, socially-engaged and gallery education practice, published in Stages #5, the Liverpool Biennial’s journal.

– Take One: “Affection, Protection, Direction” by Wendy Harpe
– Take Two: Between Community Arts and Socially Engaged Practice” by Ania Bas
– Take Three: “From Community Practice to Gallery Education” by Emily Pringle
– Take Four: “Beyond the Mural” by Marijke Steedman
– Take Five: “Participate in What is Already Going On” by Ana Laura López de la Torre






British Art Show 8, 2015


Co-editor, with Lydia Yee, of British Art Show 8‘s catalogue.

Publisher: Hayward Touring, London
Graphic design: Fraser Muggeridge studio






Eric Baudelaire: Anabases, 2014


Co-editor with Eric Baudelaire.

Publisher: Archive Books
Graphic design: Regular Jean-Marie Courant
Authors: Morad Montazami, Pierre Zaoui, Homay King, Jean-Pierre Rehm







Des savoirs bouleversés / Unsettled Knowledge, 2014


Co-editor, with Vincent Honoré and Åbäke.

Graphic design: Åbäke
Authors: Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Aurélien Froment, Goldin+Senneby, Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet, Jochen Lempert, Marie Lund, Benoît Maire, Melvin Moti, Benjamin Seror, Simon Starling, Claudia Triozzi






The Witching Hour / L’Heure des sorcières, 2014


Editor of the catalogue of the Witching Hour exhibition at Le Quartier, Quimper.

Publisher: B42 Editions, Paris
Graphic design: deValence
Author: Anna Colin






Witches: Hunted, Appropriated, Empowered, Queered, 2012


Editor of the reader accompanying the exhibitions’ series Plus ou moins sorcières at La Maison populaire, Montreuil.

Publisher: B42 Editions, Paris
Graphic design: deValence
Authors: Redfern Barrett, AA Bronson, Angus Cameron, Anna Colin, Silvia Federici, Richard John Jones, Latifa Laâbissi, Olivier Marboeuf, Vincent Simon, Marina Warner







Hydrarchy, 2012


Co-editor, with Mia Jankowicz, of a reader accompanying the exhibitions Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea (Gasworks, London) and Hydrarchy: Transitional and Transormational Seas (Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo).

Publisher: Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo
Authors: Marcus Rediker and Iain Chambers






Visible: Where Art Leaves Its Own Field and Becomes Visible as Part of Something Else, 2010


Publisher: Sternberg Press, Berlin / New York
Graphic design: Lupo Burtscher
Editors: Angelika Burtscher and Judith Wielander 
Contributing curators and authors: Cecilia Canzani, Anna Colin, Hu Fang, Emiliano Gandolfi, Julieta Gonzalez, Raimundas Malasauskas, Mihnea Mircan, Gabi Ngcobo, Elvira Dyangani Ose






The Otolith Group: A Long Time Between Suns, 2009


Co-editor, with Emily Pethick, of the book accompanying the two-venue solo show by the Otolith Group at Gasworks and The Showroom.

Publisher: Sternberg Press, Berlin / New York
Graphic design: Will Holder
Authors: TJ Demos, Kodwo Eshun, Jean Matthee, Diana McCarthy, Anjalika Sagar, Mark Sinker






Do you remember Olive Morris?, 2009


Co-editor, with Kimberly Springer, Ana Laura Lopez De La Torre and Tanisha C. Ford, of a reader to accompany the Do you remember Olive Morris? project at Gasworks and beyond.

Publisher: Gasworks, London
Graphic design: Inua Ellams
Authors: Stella Dadzi, Tanisha C. Ford, Rakhee Kewada, Ana Laura Lopez De La Torre, Julia Morandeira, Liz Obi, Sheila Ruiz, Kimberly Springer, Ashley Whitfield





A Prior # 19: Olivia Plender, Stefaan Dheedene, Kara Walker, 2009


Co-editor with Olivia Plender, Kim Einarsson and Els Roelandt.

Authors: Pablo Bronstein, Angus Cameron, Neil Cummings, Vanessa Desclaux, Melanie Gilligan, Runo Lagomarsino, Unnar Orn






Node.London Reader II, 2009


Co-editor, with Mia Jankowicz, Adnan Hadzi and Jonas Andersson, of the reader accompanying a season of media arts in London.

Authors: Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Anna Colin, Julie Freeman, Matthew Fuller, Usman Haque, Jamie King, Armin Medosch, Jonas Andersson, Toni Prug, Adnan Hadzi, Cinzia Cremona and Petra Bauer