Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory based in Berlin. He is contributing editor of Frieze magazine and his writing has appeared in journals, anthologies and monographs. He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, the De Appel Curatorial Programme and the H’Midrasha School of Art, Tel Aviv. Verwoert is author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous (MIT press/Afterall Books, 2006), the essay collection Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want (Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute, 2010), and Animal Spirits. Fables in the Parlance of Our Time, Michael Stevensons and Jan Verwoert (JRP/Ringier/Christopher Keller Editions, 2013).