curriculum vitae
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, FR
| '24 - present | Visual arts consultant |
| Stimulating collaborations between French art institutions and artists based in the Netherlands. This also includes co-organising visits by French art professionals to familiarize themselves with the Dutch art sector. Selected results: Dutch focus at Festival Art et Jardins, Amiens (2025), featuring, among others, Niels Albers, Mirte van Laarhoven; Dutch focus at Festival Chroniques, Marseille (2025). | |
| '18 - '24 | Visual arts councellor |
| Same as above. Selected results: solo show Koen Taselaar, CCC OD, Tours; duo show Tanja Smeets & Karin van Dam, Abbaye de Maubuisson; solo Carolein Smit, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Karen Sargsyan, Nicoline Timmer, Opéra Monde, Centre Pompidou Metz; Iris Wouter, Caz Egelie, Melanie Bonajo, festival Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo; Nora Turato, Frac Reims; acquisition work Jennifer Tee, Frac Alsace; Iris Woutera, festival La Nuit Blanche, Paris; duo show Nicky Assmann & Jan Robert Leegte, Centre des Arts Enghien-les-Bains; Philip Vermeulen, Festival Interstice, Caen; Esther Tielemans, l'Art dans les Chappelles, Brittany. |
Curator (selection)
| 2025 | |
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A Deeper Shade of Soul |
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Large-scale group exhibition connecting monastic life with the outside world. Featuring site-responsive artworks across the grounds of three monasteries, by, among others, Marlon de Azambuja, Aukje Dekker, Jenna Kaës, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Özgür Kar, Fiona Lutjenhuis, Patrick Neu, Samuel Sarmiento, Cosmo Sheldrake. |
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| 2025 |
Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz (MABA), Nogent-sur-Marne / Paris, FR |
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I Hit You With a Flower - sugarcoated art with a punch |
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A customized and streamlined version of the exhibition of the same name in Schiedam, featuring partly different artworks and artists. Including, among others, Afra Eisma, Ninon Enea, Vera Gulikers, Kinke Kooi, Ash Love, Béatrice Lussol, Richard Otparlic, Lucas Tortolano. |
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| '24 - '25 | |
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I Hit You With a Flower - sugarcoated art with a punch |
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Large-scale group exhibition featuring, among others, Frances Goodman, Vera Gulikers, Alan Hernández, Mari Katayama, Jakob Lena Knebl, Kinke Kooi, Rory Pilgrim, Pipilotti Rist, Lily van der Stokker, Dae Uk Kim. |
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| 2023 | |
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A Touch of Light - the sparkle of something as ordinary and fascinating as light |
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Artists: Willem van Althuis, Jan Andriesse, Caja Boogers, Edgar Fernhout, Jaap Hillenius, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jannemarein Renout, Viviane Sassen, Esther Tielemans, Jef Verheyen. |
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| 2023 | |
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Fine Fleur - a cloud of soft values with artists from Paris and the Netherlands |
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Artists: Anne Bourse, Camille Brée, Emmanuelle Castellan, Raphaël Emine, Adélaïde Feriot, Minne Kersten, Perrine Lievens, Charlott Markus, Flora Moscovici, Astrid Nobel, Maaike Schoorel, Dieuwke Spaans, Takeshi Yasura. |
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| '19 - '20 | QKunst, Utrecht, NL |
| Advisor art commissions in public space. Selection: | |
| 2023 | Schegpark, Amsterdam. Artist: Teun Castelein. |
| 2022 | Public building Huis voor de Stad, Amersfoort. Artist: Nynke Koster. |
| 2021 | Municipal sportsfacility Breda. Artists: Niels Albers, Nicky Assmann, Alphons ter Avest, We Make Carpets. |
| '12 - '18 | Subway stations of the new North-South line, Amsterdam. Artists: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, David Claerbout, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Harmen Liemburg, Gerald van der Kaap, Amalica Pica, Jennifer Tee. |
| 2020 | Nest, The Hague, NL |
| Fluid Desires - nothing is fixed, everything is in motion in this fluid world | |
| Artists: Hicham Berrada, Mimosa Echard, Inge van Genuchten, Marie Maillard, Shanta Rao, Jérôme Robbe, Maya Rochat, Leonid Tsvetkov. | |
| 2019 | Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, NL |
| Ceija Stojka (1933-2013) - War memories of a Roma. | |
| Assistant curator of Paula Aisemberg, Noëlig Leroux and Xavier Marchand. | |
| 2017 | Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis |
| Unfolding landscapes, solo show Eva Nielsen. | |
| 2013 | Nest, The Hague , NL |
| Material World - sculptures that reflect the (im)material aspects of iPhone chic | |
| Artists: Trisha Donnelly, Rubén Grillo, David Jablonowski, Magali Reus, Anne de Vries, Martin Westwood. | |
| '11 - '12 | Foundation for Art and Public Domain (SKOR), Amsterdam, NL |
| Outdoor counterpart of Afterlife – art about the final destination, Museum Tot Zover and cemetery De Nieuwe Ooster, Amsterdam. | |
| Site-responsive artworks by, among others, Nathalie Bruys, Nick Hullegie, Femmy Otten, Leonid Tsvetkov, Yuhsin U. Chang, Valeska Soares. | |
| '08 - '10 | 21rozendaal, Enschede, NL |
| During two years I was responsible for the exhibition program. Exhibitions with ao Bruno Peinado, Wendy Morris, Het Harde Potlood (The Hard Pencil), Geert Mul and a flourishing generation of Belgian artists. Under the heading 1UP I gave young Dutch artists such as Koen Taselaar the chance to make their first solo show on the upper floor. | |
| 2008 | Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, NL |
| Carried Away - Procession in Art | |
| Large-scale group exhibition featuring, among others, Francis Alÿs, Joseph Beuys, James Ensor, Meschac Gaba, Thomas Hirschhorn, Lucy Orta, Francis Picabia, Jean Tinguely, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Stephen Wilks. |
Art critic (selection)
| 2024 | Kees de Goede, book |
| More News from Nowhere, essay. | |
| 2023 | Kröller-Müller Museum, catalogue |
| There's a Crack in Everything. That's Where the Light Get's In, essay on Esther Tielemans. | |
| 2022 | Marc Mulders, artist, book |
| Painting with the Third Eye, essay. | |
| 2022 | Lotte Wieringa, artist, book |
| Painting as a Life Force, essay. | |
| 2021 | Gijs Frieling, artist, book |
| The paradisiacal reveries of a subversive colourist, essay. | |
| 2019 | Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award, book |
| Pantha Rei, essay on Nicky Assmann. | |
| 2019 | Centre Pompidou Metz, catalogue |
| Texts about Karen Sargsyan and Nicoline Timmer for the catalogue of the group show Opéra Monde. | |
| Royal Award for Modern Painting, catalogue | |
| 2019 |
By any means necessary – a conversation about painting with the three winners: Leo Arnold, Cian-Yu Bai, Machteld Rullens. |
| 2018 | A painting is not a 'piece of cake' - a conversation on painting with the three winners: Raquel van Haver, Sam Hersbach, Neo Matloga. |
| '16 - '22 | Metropolis M, Dutch art magazine |
| 15 texts, ranging from 3-9 pages. Focus on the French contemporary art world, including new art institutions, distinctive exhibitions and international key figures (artists, curators). I arranged interviews with Christine Macel (curator Venice Biennale 2017), Nicolas Bourriaud (founding director MoCo, Montpellier), Sheila Hicks (artist), François Quentin (founding director Lafayette Anticipations). Recent articles: | |
| 2022 | Out of the shadow of Paris: the banlieue is booming |
| 2021 | A boom in foundations. The growing influence of private initiative in the Parisian art world |
| '12 - '20 | Museumtijdschrift, Dutch art magazine |
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23 texts, ranging from 4-6 pages. Focus on the French contemporary art sector, including new art institutions and distinctive exhibitions. Recent articles: |
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| 2020 |
Monument to a trader disguised as a patron (Collection Pinault, Paris) |
| 2019 | Messages of light and peace (Marc Chagall, Centre Pompidou Metz) |
| '17 - '19 | H ART, Belgian art magazine |
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12 texts. Focus on the French contemporary art sector, including new art institutions and distinctive exhibitions. Recent articles: |
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| 2019 |
Forget Paris, here come the metropolitan areas, review inauguration MoCo, Montpellier, and Méca, Bordeaux |
| 2019 |
Review Jeunes Artistes en Europe, Fondation Cartier, Paris |
| See All This, Dutch art magazine | |
| 2021 | Post-post, essay on artists & letters / mail |
| 2019 | The Pariah, Hojda Stojka about his mother Ceija Stojka (interview) |
| Zérodeux, French art magazine | |
| 2016 | The Bernard Arnault of the Netherlands opens the museum of his dreams (review Museum Voorlinden) |
| 2015 | Review A Republic of Art, Van Abbemuseum |
| 2018 |
Coup de Coeur, Van Doesburghouse, Meudon |
Juries (selection)
| '23 - '25 | |
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Jury member Nouveau Grand Tour 2024 - 2026, residencies for young French artists in the Netherlands. |
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| 2025 | |
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Jury member Biennale Mulhouse 025, biennale of emerging artists |
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| '24 - present | |
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Acquisition committee for artworks for the collection |
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| 2024 | |
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Selection of artists for the 2025 edition. This annual festival takes place in the hortillonages: a marshland area that has earned Amiens the nickname 'the Venice of the North'. |
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| '22 - '23 | |
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Jury member Commission Mécénat (new artworks by artists). |
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| 2020 | |
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Jury member, prize for young artists in France. |
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| '15 - '19 | |
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Jury member. The award is initiated by HM King Willem-Alexander. |
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| '15 - '17 |
Committee member visual arts, design and architecture. |
| 2016 |
Advisory committee member, BIS 2017-2020, art institutes. |
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This committee determined which six Dutch art institutions would receive financial support from the Dutch government during the period 2017-2020. |
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The Council for Culture is the legal adviser of the government in the fields of the arts, culture and media. The Council provides recommendations regarding the cultural policy in the Netherlands, whether it is requested of them or not. |
| 2014 | |
| Committee member AICA Charter 2014, category Exhibitions. | |
| '10 - '12 | Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, NL |
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Committee member projects Visual Arts and Heritage. |
Education
| '94 - '00 | Art history, Utrecht University, NL |
| Specialism: modern and contemporary art. Doctoral thesis: ‘Ohne Titel. A study into the vision and reception of Documenta 7, 8 and IX' |
