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New elective about identity
Last week my new OffCourse Unfixed: Stories of Identity started. ‘OffCourses’ are Academy Minerva’s electives in which professionals are invited to spend a semester sharing their knowledge and expertise with second and third-year bachelor students. With their class, they conduct (artistic) research in all kinds of areas… Read more
Multiperspectivity: Exploring Identity
Together with artist Aimée Terburg, I recently started teaching a new elective course at Minerva Art Academy: Multiperspectivity: Exploring Identity. The course is part of the academy’s collaboration with the manifestation Bittersweet Heritage (Bitterzoet Erfgoed) which takes place from 18 February to 12 September 2022. During… Read more
Stories of Identity: Gender, Feminism and Queerness
I have started with a new elective course about gender, feminism and queerness in art and design practices at Minerva Art Academy, called Stories of Identity. I am excited about the number of second-and third-year students who signed up for the course, enjoying their engagement… Read more
the pink cube.’s first fundraiser
The first project of the pink cube. is a fact: a fundraiser in the context of Pride Month. The charity is LGBT Asylum Support – an organization that guides and supports LGBT refugees in the Netherlands. Of course, it is possible to donate, but it… Read more
the pink cube.
Recently I became involved in a new initiative in Groningen: the pink cube. It is set up by Anne van Lierop as a platform dedicated to the visibility and appreciation of queer art and culture. As a young and beginning art historian, Anne noticed a… Read more
Virtual Manifestations – a research project
For the past five months, I worked with students on a research project for the extracurricular program of Minerva Art Academy called OffCourse. ‘Virtual Manifestations’ explored online exhibitions, platforms and presenting individual art and design works—this research project investigated the relationship between digital and material… Read more
Field review: Performance art by women artists in the United States, 1965 – 1980
‘This is a critical moment for feminismand women’s place in the art world…We will need all our wit and courageto make sure that women’s voices areheard, their work seen and written about.That is our task for the future.’~ Linda Nochlin, 2015 [1] Recently, I had… Read more
We care a lot
The exhibition that never took place turned into an online presence … Delighted to launch the RE:Present #2 digital publication that is made with a selection of first-year students of the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen – where I am a lecturer. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,… Read more
My research on Bitch, a work by Sarah Lucas
Already in the second year of my study in Art History, however, from the past year, I would like to share the following: for the course Collections & Artefacts of prof. Dr Peter de Ruiter, I conducted research on one artwork from the collection of… Read more