About & Contact

holtenjohn@gmail.com

 Novelist. Born 1984.

Novels

Oslo, Norway (Broken Dimanche Press), 2015

The Readymades (Broken Dimanche Press), 2011, re-issued 2019

Writing has appeared in Frieze, gorse, The Stinging Fly, Hotel, Electric Literature among other places.

Curatorial work includes the literature programme 2016-2019 at Tropez, in Berlin; Büro BDP’s programme since 2011 (with Ida Bencke), and the series ‘a book, a room’'; the group exhibition about the future of reading ‘Augury’ at BQ Gallery, Berlin in 2016; as well as solo exhibitions

 

Positions

Co-Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Broken Dimanche Press - 2009 - present

Director of Narrative and Editorial Content, Klang Games - 2017 - present

Co-host and co-producer, The Life Cycle Podcast, 2019-2023

Lecturer, Node Center for Curatorial Studies - 2014 - 2020

Columnist, Contemporary Food Lab - 2015 - 2017

Gallery Manager and curator, N/R Projects, Berlin - 2015 - 2017