Experience

Ki Culture

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Volunteer

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  As a volunteer at Ki Culture and Ki Futures, I help research case studies about sustainable endeavours in the cultural field and part-take in sustainability consulting meetings for independent creatives and large scale institutions. "Ki Culture is a non-profit organization which provides sustainable solutions for cultural heritage. We offer resources, best practices and easy to use tools for professionals and support heritage as a means to educate the public on sustainability. We are the key to uniting heritage and sustainability." Show less



Design Academy Eindhoven

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Writer

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  As an independent writer for the editorial team for Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), I write monthly alumni interviews revolving around the careers and design developments of DAE alumni. As an independent writer for the editorial team for Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE), I write monthly alumni interviews revolving around the careers and design developments of DAE alumni.



Garage Rotterdam

• Museums
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curator

  • Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

  Co-curated with Rawad Baaklini Rumbling and growling we arrive At the Table, but the sounds are not only from hungry stomachs or digestion - they are echoes of global trade, political powerlessness, colonial histories and unaccommodating social norms. Acknowledging the grip that food scarcity and abundance has on our lives, the artworks in this exhibition recognise what a food-dependent body is. Candid narratives reveal the multifaceted origins of our everyday ingredients, evoking fundamental questions about how our bodies interact with food, and ultimately the world around us. The works prompt us to be attentive to the intellectual and bodily digestion that we continuously part-take in, considering that we metabolise artworks much like food. This exhibition is a response to how we, as eaters, consume the politics of our food infrastructures. From the Earth to our mouth, eating is a collaborative act that confronts us with our inescapable reliance on one another. Through edible artworks, food happenings and participatory activities, visitors are welcomed At the Table to leave traces, like bread crumbs, for others to consume. All artists: Bruno Baietto, Diana Al-Halabi, Elia Nurvista, Hala Tawil, Johanna Seelemann & Björn Steinar Blumenstein, Rikkert Paauw Show less



HAUS

• Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

• Copywriter

  • Jan 2023 - Mar 2023

  I did copywriting for product descriptions and social media texts for the new furniture brand HAUS. Inspired by the clean lines and functional simplicity of Scandinavian design, HAUS products provide a sense of comfort and well-being in your home. With care and attention to detail, our textiles, furniture, and home accessories are crafted to bring a sense of calm and warmth to your space. I did copywriting for product descriptions and social media texts for the new furniture brand HAUS. Inspired by the clean lines and functional simplicity of Scandinavian design, HAUS products provide a sense of comfort and well-being in your home. With care and attention to detail, our textiles, furniture, and home accessories are crafted to bring a sense of calm and warmth to your space.



Studio Vantot

• Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

• Copywriter & Creative Consultant

  • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

  At Studio Vantot I did copywriting for product descriptions, interior design catalogues, social media texts and monthly newsletters. Studio Vantot is a lighting design company that deals with innovative yet classic designs with environmentally friendly features. Their practice is holistic and minimalist as they design the electronics, aesthetics and spatial lighting design for clients. At Studio Vantot I did copywriting for product descriptions, interior design catalogues, social media texts and monthly newsletters. Studio Vantot is a lighting design company that deals with innovative yet classic designs with environmentally friendly features. Their practice is holistic and minimalist as they design the electronics, aesthetics and spatial lighting design for clients.



noorderlicht.

• Netherlands
• Photography
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Exhibition Curator

  • Feb 2021 - Oct 2021

  The exhibition Splintered Thoughts and Fragile Plots suspects that some truths are like poetry. That they are skilfully formulated hints alluding to something much greater. Before they become truths, they are ideas that are nameless and formless; not yet born, but already felt. Once identified and perceived as truths, they take form as beliefs that are transferred, embellished and rhetorically intensified. Eleven artists explore mannerisms towards truths in eight artworks and three performances. Photographs, paintings, video and audio-visual installations show us how easily truths can be tangled or untangled from a story. Just like the words in a poem, the works shed a sideway light onto the ways of the world, exploring tales that cannot be judged as true or false. Rather, they reassess what truth is in the first place; inherently intangible, evasive, yet present. It becomes the material of poetry. Participating artists: Alaa Abu Asad, Sergi Casero, Jacob Dwyer, Emirhakin, Maria Khatchadourian, Sherida Kuffour, Micheline Nahra, Sarane Mathis, Walid Raad, Ceola Tunstall-Behrens and Liza Wolters. Young Curators Programme For the third edition of the Young Curators mentor programme, Noorderlicht once again invited two upcoming curators to develop a multidisciplinary exhibition in the Noorderlicht Studio around the theme of the main festival. For 2021 they are the Estonian curator and writer Tiiu Meiner (1995) and the Lebanese curator and designer Rawad Baaklini (1994). Noorderlicht Photo Festival For the last thirty years, Noorderlicht has operated on the cutting edge of artistic experiment and social urgency. Noorderlicht puts social issues on the agenda, such as the relationship between man and nature and the distribution of power and economy. These themes were initially portrayed by means of photography. In recent years, Noorderlicht has broadened its perspective as an institution for all lens-based media. Show less



Design Academy Eindhoven

• Netherlands
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Producer & Moderator

  • Oct 2018 - Oct 2021

  Once a year, during the Dutch Design Week, I have been involved in producing and moderating The Arena: Design Academy Eindhoven's in-house platform for design discussion and debate. Beginning in 2018 until currently, I have produced and moderated numerous panel discussions with varied topics and renowned external experts. I have overseen many developments for the programme of The Arena, such as in 2020, when The Arena became a televised programme on Dutch Design TV. Once a year, during the Dutch Design Week, I have been involved in producing and moderating The Arena: Design Academy Eindhoven's in-house platform for design discussion and debate. Beginning in 2018 until currently, I have produced and moderated numerous panel discussions with varied topics and renowned external experts. I have overseen many developments for the programme of The Arena, such as in 2020, when The Arena became a televised programme on Dutch Design TV.



Freelance

• Writer

  • Jun 2021 - Jun 2021

  For this review, I was invited by artist Ahn Sung Whan to write a about his newest installation Wear Me, at the Temporary Art Center in Eindhoven. Sung Whan was exhibiting his newest installation of scent dispensers, along with his previous project Take Off and Ejaculation: My Scent. In the work, the artist created a perfume of his own bodily scents, and programmed scent dispensers to dispense it into a room for audiences to ephemerally breathe him in. For this review, I was invited by artist Ahn Sung Whan to write a about his newest installation Wear Me, at the Temporary Art Center in Eindhoven. Sung Whan was exhibiting his newest installation of scent dispensers, along with his previous project Take Off and Ejaculation: My Scent. In the work, the artist created a perfume of his own bodily scents, and programmed scent dispensers to dispense it into a room for audiences to ephemerally breathe him in.



Het Nieuwe Instituut

• Netherlands
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curatorial Writer & Editor

  • Dec 2020 - Dec 2020

  In collaboraton with artist Hansol Kim, I wrote the curatorial text for the exhibition Anatomies in Limbo, at Het Nieuwe Instituut. In his work, Kim’s research-led and personal approach reconfigures the definition of wearability. His sculptural objects occupy the intersection of garments and furniture. They contest the typical features of each field and ask to be considered as a completely new category of their own. In collaboraton with artist Hansol Kim, I wrote the curatorial text for the exhibition Anatomies in Limbo, at Het Nieuwe Instituut. In his work, Kim’s research-led and personal approach reconfigures the definition of wearability. His sculptural objects occupy the intersection of garments and furniture. They contest the typical features of each field and ask to be considered as a completely new category of their own.



Roodkapje Rotterdam

• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Curator

  • Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

  As curator of the exhibition "A Firefly Sits on an Electric Fence Reflecting on Light" together with work partner Rawad Baaklini, we oversaw the concept creation and curation. In the exhibition, an extraordinary trilogy was woven through three rooms as Danielle Hoogendoorn’s animals and Jonathan van Doornum’s sharp compositions invited the audience to part-take in a contemporary allegory. Depicted through animal portraits, dramatic quilts and ceramic farm animal heads, Hoogendoorn captured striking sceneries of fictional creatures alluding to a greater tale. These playful scenes were opposed by the polished poetics of van Doornum’s installations. The shapes of his aluminium creations had been contorted, like antennas, to activate our curiosities. Both artists suggest a much needed disruption in our linear lives, as they call to a reckoning the need to escape. Hoogendoorn’s work reminds us to ask what are the morals of our individual stories, while van Doornum frames a mythical tale that depicts us and escapes us until the end of time. Show less



Running Dog

• Australia

• Writer

  • Oct 2020 - Oct 2020

  The essay Conspiring to Curate Conspiracies was written for Running Dog's online issue themed Live Stream Now. The essay explores what conspiracy theories are as designed truths, and questions what it means to consider them as digital artefacts in contemporary culture. By contemplating the ethics of including misinformation within archives of mainstream knowledge-making institutions, the essay concludes that our contemporary societies have a precarious archival journey ahead. The essay Conspiring to Curate Conspiracies was written for Running Dog's online issue themed Live Stream Now. The essay explores what conspiracy theories are as designed truths, and questions what it means to consider them as digital artefacts in contemporary culture. By contemplating the ethics of including misinformation within archives of mainstream knowledge-making institutions, the essay concludes that our contemporary societies have a precarious archival journey ahead.



Tallinn Vabaduse Galerii

• Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

• Curator

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2020

  In the exhibition Don't Avoid What is Easy, artist Anastasia Lemberg Lvova presented artworks within a political context. The motivation for her works derives from her involvement in the international political scene. Lemberg-Lvova developed a conversational tool to discuss the dreams for Europe's future together with the subjects of her portraits, as well as the general publics that she came across in Tallinn and Trieste. In the exhibition Don't Avoid What is Easy, artist Anastasia Lemberg Lvova presented artworks within a political context. The motivation for her works derives from her involvement in the international political scene. Lemberg-Lvova developed a conversational tool to discuss the dreams for Europe's future together with the subjects of her portraits, as well as the general publics that she came across in Tallinn and Trieste.



Estonian Film Museum

• Tallinn

• Co-curator

  • Jul 2018 - Jul 2018

  As a co-curator with the director, I developed a strategy of selection and documentation for personally choosing 20-30 historical Estonian film posters from the museum's archive, as well as researching and writing captions for each one. The exhibition was on show at Tallinn Film Museum for a year. As a co-curator with the director, I developed a strategy of selection and documentation for personally choosing 20-30 historical Estonian film posters from the museum's archive, as well as researching and writing captions for each one. The exhibition was on show at Tallinn Film Museum for a year.



Dezeen

• United Kingdom
• Online Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Writer

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2018

  What were the key themes that emerged at Dutch Design Week 2017? Dezeen asked six graduates on Design Academy Eindhoven's design writing masters course to give their takes in essay form. Our answers included gigantism, post-humanism and absurdism, the latter exemplified by cushions based on Kim Kardashian's "butt-selfies". Dezeen used the week to highlight the increasing number of designers tackling the world's big problems, through our Good Design for a Bad World talks series. But students studying the Design Curating and Writing masters course in Eindhoven had other ideas... Show less



Student & Graduate Publishing

• The Screen Works, Highbury Grove London N5 2EF

• Student Intern

  • Oct 2016 - Dec 2016

  I worked as an intern in charge of writing articles for Graduate Magazine (http://www.graduatemag.co.uk), Study International (http://www.studyinternationalmag.com) and Student and Graduate brochures. I also worked on updating company data bases and made calls to collect data. I worked as an intern in charge of writing articles for Graduate Magazine (http://www.graduatemag.co.uk), Study International (http://www.studyinternationalmag.com) and Student and Graduate brochures. I also worked on updating company data bases and made calls to collect data.



Digital Shoreditch

• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Backstage Volunteer

  • May 2015 - May 2015

  Tasks: -Backstage microphone fittings -Stage maintenance Tasks: -Backstage microphone fittings -Stage maintenance