Interview with curator Simon Baker and walking tour through the exhibition Shape of Light - 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern for promotional teaser.

exhibition on view may - oct 2018

/// TALKING & LECTURING

Paneldiscussion AI and Artist Books at Super BOOKS 5 Haus der Kunst November 2024

Guided Tour during exhibition performance Off to Elsewhere at Münchner Kammerspiele September 2024

On contemporary photography - Der Greif's Perspective at RAY Triennale of Photography, Frankfurt May 2024

Fotografische Begegnungen - Grisebach Auctionhouse, Berlin & Munich January 2024

Defensio The Photographic Surface Between Substances and Spaces - Leiden University October 2023

The Making of Photography - from a material theoretical perspective - Lecture at Foam organzied in collaboration with College Club June 2018

The Photographic Surface - Horizon between the Visible and the Invisible - Lecture at the symposium The Materiality of Photographs organized by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam April 2018

Craftmanship in Contemporary Photography - Panel Discussion during UNSEEN 2016

Photo Installations: between image and material - BA course at Leiden University
February - June 2015

A Response in 10 Chapters to Niina Vatanen's Beyond the visible surface - 
Lecture for the exhibition series In Transition at C/O Berlin February 2015 - Berlin / Germany

The photographic surface and beyond - Lecture during the symposium 'Jeff Wall: Photography as an (hybrid) art object' at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
June 2014 - Amsterdam / The Netherlands

Sous Cloche
Reflections on the collaboration with artist Wytske van Keulen for the occasion of the book presentation at San Seriffe, Amsterdam and Kominek Gallery, Berlin
January 2014 - Amsterdam / The Netherlands
May 2014 - Berlin / Germany

Double Focus on Surface and Image - 
Lecture at eikones Summer School 2013
The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Iconic Criticism
September 2013 - Basel / Switzerland

x + fotografie = ?
The Science4Arts research project on the conservation of photoworks
at OSK (Research Postgraduate School for Art History) Sectiedag Atelierpraktijken en geschiedenis van de kunstproductie
19 December 2012 - Amersfoort / The Netherlands

Learning from Photography...
Afterthoughts at the Symposium Port Prospects organized by Het Wilde Weten and The Goethe Institute Rotterdam
November 2012- Rotterdam / The Netherlands

Dutch Photography Now: Between 3 and 2 Dimensions

Lecture as part of Dutch Photography Experience organized by Fotodepartament, Creative Space Tkachi & ProMu supported by the Netherlands Consulate-General St. Petersburg
October 2012 - St. Petersburg / Russia

From 3 to 2 Dimensions - The photograph as object
Lecture at Developing Pictures - Symposium on photography
organized by Glucksmann Gallery, Cork, Ireland
February 2012 - Cork / Ireland

Paneldiscussion on the exhibition Tangible Time
curated by Danielle van Zuijlen at NEST, The Hague
November 2011 - The Hague / The Netherlands

Paneldiscussion Publish your work here / Horizons of Contemporary publishing
curated by Massimo Sordi, Stefania Rössl
with Gerry Badger, Claudio Corrivetti, Mario Peliti
at Si FEST Savignano Immagini
September 2011 - Savignano / Italy

/// INTERVIEWING & MODERATING


Artists talk with Jaya Pelupessy and Spiros Hadjidjanos at C/O Berlin during EMOP Opening Days September 2018

Panel moderation on the topic Transcending Boundaries with writer Lyle Rexer, artist Adam Jeppesen and the artist duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - part of the In Transition - Thinking about Photography Series of C/O Berlin
March 2014

Panel moderation on the topic Editing the World with artist Penelope Umbrico, picture editor Monica Allende (Sunday Times Magazine), Joerg Colberg (Conscientious Photography Magazine) and David Campbell.
September 2013

Panel moderation on Photo Magazines Now with Mauro Bedoni (picture editor of COLORS Magazine), Michael Famighetti (editor of Aperture Magazine) and Pjotr de Jong (creative director of Foam Magazine)
September 2013

Artists' Talks with Peter Puklus, Christina de Middel, Rob Hornstra and Ruth van Beek during UNSEEN photo fair
September 2013

Interview with WassinkLundgren, AM Projects, Michael Wolf, Anouk Kruithof, Isabelle Wenzel and Andy Sewell at UNSEEN Photo Fair Amsterdam
September 2012

Double Interview with Karianne Bueno and Nina Poppe on their recent published books
at LhGWR Liefhertje en de Grote Witte Reus, The Hague
July 2012

Interview with Katia Mater, Jan Adriaans & Paulien Oltheten
(part of the QUICKSCAN NL #01 program at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam)
2010

Double interview with collaborating artists Wytske van Keulen & Nickel van Duijvenboden
(part of the Photobook Days at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam)
2010

Interview with Andrea Stultiens
(part of the Photobook Days at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam)
2010

Panel moderation with Wang Chuan, Kim Bouvy, Wytske van Keulen, Steve Harris, Gu Zheng and Club Donny
(part of the QUICKSCAN NL side program at Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai)
july 2010

/// REVIEWING & JUDGING

External reviewer during the graduation of BA-students Camera Arts at Hochschule für Kunst und Design Luzern, Switzerland 2022

Nominator for C/O Berlin Talent award 2019

Jury Member for the CNAC Portfolio award 2019, Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Luxemburg

Nominator for C/O Berlin Talent award 2018

Foam Talent Call 2018

Jury Member of the Unseen | Outset Exhibition Fund 2017

Head of the jury (2016 - 2017)  and jury member (2014 - 2015) for the annual Steenbergen Stipendium, award for graduating photography students at Dutch arts academies

Nominator for the Dutch Doc Award 2014 (Annual award for the best documentary photography in the Netherlands) 

External reviewer for the Final Exams in Photography 2013 at the Masters programme of AKV St.Joost, Breda and Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam

External reviewer for the Final Exams in Photography 2012 at two Dutch art academies: HKU Utrecht & AKV St.Joost, Breda

Dutch Doc Award 2012

Plat(t)form 2012, Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland)

TIME's Best of 2011: The Photobooks We Loved

Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2011

BLEND Absolut Talent Award 2011

/// PERFORMING

Once starting as a joke during my undergraduate studies, the Knapsters haircutting show turned out as a success on stages throughout the Netherlands (het Rozentheater, Breakfestival, Lowlands, Rockit!, Melkweg, Tivoli Utrecht etc.). In 2007 Tessel Schmidt (alles met video), Gian van Grunsven (dramaturg, presenter, improviser and concept-creator) and me started the company metDressing to invent and promote different performances for cultural events. Since 2010, I'm no longer partner due to my other professional activities but metDressing keeps being active in the cultural field with a bunch of fresh and charming female performers.