Rutger Wolfson (b. 1969) is Director of De Vleeshal in Middelburg. After studying Art and Cultural Studies at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam he worked as a curator at Witte de With. Wolfson edited and introduced the essay collection Kunst in Crisis (‘Art in Crisis’), which was published by Prometheus in January 2003. The essay collection Nieuwe Symbolen voor Nederland (‘New Symbols for the Netherlands’), which Wolfson also edited and introduced, is being published by Valiz in September 2005. He is currently working on a publication about the future of art and the museum: This is the Flow, the Museum as a Space for Ideas.