Kris Dittel 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 earlier work dealt with the notion of code switching (To Be Like Water, TENT Rotterdam, 2021); the voice as material (Post-Opera, TENT, V2_, Opera festival Rotterdam, 2019).
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. Her previously edited publications include Spatial Folders: Extraction and Extractivism, co-edited with Golnar Abbassi (MIARD, Piet Zwart Institute, 2023); The Material Kinship Reader, co-edited with Clem Edwards (Onomatopee, 2022), among others. She has recently founded a small press, _BÖKS, which publishes ageless children’s books, poetry, and weird erotica.