Jan Verwoert is an art critic based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine and also writes regularly about contemporary art for such art magazines as Afterall, Metropolis M, Camera Austria and Springerin. He is editor of Die Ich-Ressource. Zur Kultur der Selfst-Verwertung, Volk Verlag (2003); and author of Wolfgang Tilmans, Phaidon (2002); and Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous, MIT Press (2006). Recent essays appeared in art books and catalogues such as Cerith Wyn Evans, Lukas & Sternberg Inc./Kunstverein Frankfurth (2004); Experience, Memory, Re-enactment, PZI/Revolver (2005); Black Friday, PZI/Revolver (2005); Bik Van der Pol: With Love From the Kitchen, NAi (2005); Works by Annika Eriksson, Revolver (2005); Sean Snyder, Walter Koenig Verlag (2006).