DJCS (Pākehā: Dutch, Ashkenazi) is a curator from Ngāmotu, based in Te Whanganui a Tara, and the founder of COMMODE, an independent gallery dedicated to experimental and critical practice. Their work engages queer theory and institutional critique, treating exhibition making as a mode of inquiry that foregrounds complexity, political consciousness, and the slow work of building alternative infrastructures.

They were Director of Enjoy Contemporary Art Space (2022–2025); Assistant Curator, Artspace Aotearoa (2021–2022); Founder and Director, Parasite (2020–2022); Co-Director, RM Gallery and Projectspace (2016–2018); and worked within and alongside public, commercial, and artist-run galleries in Aotearoa since 2012.

Please email info@commode.co.nz for a full CV.