Bio
I studied art history and philosophy at Leiden University, graduating in 2001 with a thesis on oneirocratic space—architecture and human desire. That question—do we want to be contained by the frameworks built for us?—has shaped everything since.
I painted in oils as a teenager at the local community center. I attended art academy and fashion school before completing that degree, studied portrait sculpture with artist Andre Kruyssen in the early 2000s. For years I omitted these from my CV because they didn't fit how the field wanted to place me. Now I put them back in. They're part of how I think and make.
In 2018 I took an MBO course in TIG welding. I have a deep love for technical work that I never had space to develop. Welding felt essential—aside from stone, it's the strongest, most load-bearing way to build that exists.
I co-founded Instituto Buena Bista in Curaçao (2005-2011), building cultural infrastructure from the ground up. I launched COHORS (2019-2020), a design label that challenged how commercial production values artistic labor
—engineering solutions, managing Dutch manufacturing, ensuring equal recognition for every contributor.
Currently I'm founder of Stichting Creative Action Now and initiator of engage rotterdam, an urban laboratory connecting artists with communities in Cool Zuid. I work as business leader at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (0.6 FTE), coach Master Creative Producing students at AHK, and take interim business leader positions for cultural organizations.
I write. I draw to investigate what I can't articulate in words—seed dispersal, fracture, how systems break and reform. I'm developing installation work about crash-landed beings and othering, asking what happens when we encounter radical difference on our streets.
My practice moves between scales.
Sometimes it's pencil on paper. Sometimes it's facilitating collective projects. Sometimes it's engineering technical solutions or building networks. But the question stays consistent: what grows in the cracks?
Projects
This is an overview of projects I have worked on over the last 20 years - either together with other artists or just as a manor to do research on ideas. Not everything can be expressed by words.
