Michael Tedja

Michael Tedja is a Dutch writer and artist. He is a graduate of the art academy and his art work has been on display in various major modern art museums in the Netherlands. Tedja's literary output constitutes a Gesammtkunstwerk. His books are mixtures of various genre, novel, essay and autobiography. Tedja publishes his work through his own publishing house, The DFI Publishers. It offers a platform “for exciting ideas from beyond our own national borders, producing remarkable images, crazy show more associations in stinging criticisms, stories and poems which it places in an intercultural context"..

Diagonale instituut is a novel about an artist (like) Tedja. The novel must have been written with the exhibition at the Alkmaar Metropolitan Museum on the horizon, because the novel describes Tedja's exhibition alongside that of Lucebert, like Tedja a Dutch writer and artist. Diagonale instituut explores the background of Tedja's work and influences on his work, such as early contacts with other Dutch intellectuals, writers and artists, notably Sybren Polet. show less