BIO

I am a cultural worker with a background in political philosophy (marxist/anarchist). My practice is rooted in self-organised, collaborative formats with artists, academics, and activists. In previous years my work was intertwined with artist cooperative Level Five and Permanent. In 2015 Paoletta Holst and I initiated That Might Be Right (TMBR), an initiative for cultural practitioners dedicated to (re)searching, developing and supporting alternatives to the present. TMBR continues to function as an infrastructure that can host different constellations of practitioners and forms of action. Recently I participated in De Appel Curatorial Programme for Level Five on Lumbung Practice. There I continue as a fellow and further my practice on land struggles, within the Lumbung.

I got into art as a way to understand the world—a space that allows for critical reflection and the possibility to imagine and act in ways that transform the present. By organising within artist communities I realised that to bring out this potential, we need to overcome the gap between artistic process and the abstraction of it presented in most art institutions. This led me to rethink the way the artistic field is organised and to create alternative spaces and ways of doing/sharing artistic practices, rather than presenting them. I continue to believe that artistic practices can create productive ruptures in the present. However, I now recognise that being involved in a collective is already a mode of critique, a form that reshapes the way we relate to each other and, in turn, transforms ourselves and our surroundings.

Recent projects include: Land Teach-In (2025), at De Appel developed together with Denisse Vega de Santiago and Natascha Hagenbeek within the Lumbung Practice Harvest Festival; Learning Community (2025), a get together to read, talk, and think about the pleasures and challenges of community and the importance of learning collectively, at De Appel; RE: visiting the studio (2023), a study day and publication exploring the value of studio spaces for artistic practices, communities, and the cultural field, at Beursschouwburg; Working Archives (2023), a day of learning and sharing on archival artistic practices, at L5; Architecture Film Festival Brussels (2021), organised with Emma van der Put and Ingel Vaikla, at Recyclart; Reconstituting Geographies (2020-ongoing), a roaming library and collective study on primary accumulation, at Beursschouwburg and Celador; The Labour of Laziness (2020), a collaborative project with Steyn Bergs and Sofia Céasar, at a.pass; Forms of Life of Forms (2019), an exhibition and publication of my research on form not merely as an aesthetic question but as a social and political one, at ZSenne Artlab.