Stroom Invest Week 2024

Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag
Date: 17 - 21 June 2024 

Participating artists
Jan Dirk Adams, Arthur Cordier, Sina Dyks, Johannes Equizi, Diana Gheorghiu , Marcos Kueh, Erik Kamaletdinov, Cristina Lavosi, Haevan Lee, Yukari Nakamichi, Madeline Swainhart, Alexander Webber, Vita Soul Wilmering, Mina Yee.

Visiting curators & artists
Fenne Saedt, Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen, Zeynep Kubat, Marc Navarro, Jelmer Wijnstroom, Arjuna Neuman, Ciara Hickey, Joep Vossebeld, Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen, Femmy Otten, Zeynep Kubat, Marc Navarro, Jelmer Wijnstroom, Arjuna Neuman, Ciara Hickey, Tamsin Hong;

Fenne Saedt
Fenne Saedt works as a freelance curator, editor, lecturer and moderator in the field of contemporary art for a variety of clients. After studying Fine Art and Design in Education at ArtEZ in Arnhem, she founded the RUIS foundation in 2016, an exhibition space for contemporary art that focuses on the experimentation and development of young artists. Since then she has been artistic director of this art space in Nijmegen where she creates exhibitions in close collaboration with the artist. In addition, Saedt works as a curator at presentation institution POST in Nijmegen and Arnhem and columnist/curator at exhibition space Omstand in Arnhem.

Joep Vossebeld
Joep Vossebeld (1989) studied Fine Arts in Maastricht and at Sint Lukas Academy in Brussels, in 2015/2016 he was a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. As a curator, he is associated with Odapark, a centre for contemporary art in Venray. He also works(ed) as a guest curator for Bonnefantenmuseum and SCHUNCK, among others. One day a week, Joep teaches at the Toneelacademie Maastischt, Teacher & Director course. In the STUDIO series, he writes monthly reports on studio visits for cultural magazine ZOUT. 

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen
Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen is an art historian and curator based in Trondheim, Norway. She earned her MA in Art History at the University of Oslo. Pedersen functioned as Interim Director of Kunsthall Trondheim May-December 2023, whereas she holds the position as curator. Pedersen's curatorial practice focus on perspectives combining alternative realities, spiritualties, knowledge systems and technology. Recently, she has explored themes of diasporic ancestry, neuroplasticity, and memory - an inquiry motived by her own experiences as a second-generation Filipinx immigrant. Pedersen is the Chair of The Norwegian Association of Curators.

Femmy Otten
Femmy Otten (1981, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lives and works in The Hague. Her work attempts to step beyond the stereotyped view of gender, imposed standards, taboos, guilt or shame. Recently her work has been exhibited at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Kunsthal and S.M.A.K. (Gent), De Warande (Turnhout), M HKA (Antwerp), Drents Museum (Assen), Museum M (Leuven), Rijksmuseum, Fons Welters and P///akt (Amsterdam). She took part in the 14th Istanbul Biennial. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including SCHUNCK* Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Voorlinden, M HKA, Drents Museum and AkzoNobel Foundation. She was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and Atelier Holsboer, Cité Internationales des Arts in Paris. In 2013 she was the recipient of the de Volkskrant Fine Arts Award. 

Zeynep Kubat
Zeynep Kubat is a curator and writer. She works as an assistant curator at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. She also has an independent practice, and (co-)curated exhibitions at STUK Leuven (2024), De Garage in Mechelen (2024), De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam (2023), Art Brussels - Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (2023), Platform Kunst in Opdracht - Atelier Vlaams Bouwmeester (2022-2023), Marres in Maastricht (2022), Antwerp Art Weekend (2022) and Brussels Gallery Weekend (2021), among others. She was previously editor-in-chief of rekto:verso magazine (2019-2021) and TYPP Journal (Sint Lucas Antwerp, 2019-2022) and worked as editor for GLEAN magazine (2022).

Marc Navarro
Marc Navarro is a curator and writer based in Berlin. He has curated exhibitions in institutions such as CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Espai 13 - Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Lo Pati - Centre d'Art Terres de l'Ebre, Amposta, and the MAMT - Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona. His texts have been published in catalogs and specialized publications. He is the co-editor of the books 'Assuming Assymetries: Conversations on Curating Public Art in the 1980s and 1990s' (2022) and 'Curating Beyond the Mainstream. The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström' (2022) both published by Sternberg Press - Konstfack Collection. He has received research scholarships from OSIC and the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

Jelmer Wijnstroom
Jelmer Wijnstroom works as an independent curator and researcher. He focuses on contemporary art and (sub)culture. Characteristic of his practice is his interest in interdisciplinary projects and human traces in the city. In recent years he has worked on exhibitions for Buro Stedelijk, CODA Museum Apeldoorn, INDEBT, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, KM21, Patty Morgan, Warmoesstraat 67 and the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. In 2021, Jelmer won the VBCN OPEN curatorial award. He also works as an editor for Tubelight Magazine and as co-director of This Art Foundation.

Arjuna Neuman
Arjuna Neuman is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Neumand works with the essay form with a multi-perspectival and mobile approach where ‘essay' is an inherently future-oriented and experimental mode, becoming the guiding principle for research and production, which shifts between the bodily, haptic, and affective through to the geopolitical, planetary and cosmological. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Macba, Barcelona; CCA, Glasgow and Glasgow International, Scotland; Showroom Gallery, London; Belkin Gallery and Or Gallery, Vancouver; TPW Gallery, Toronto. Recent biennials include Hacer Noche, Mexico; Ural Industrial Biennial, Russia; Lubumbashi Biennial, DWC; Bergen Assembly, Norway; Sharjah Biennial, UAE; Venice Biennial, Italy and Qalandia Biennial, Palestine. 2024 solo shows will include: Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway and Santiago Modern, Chile. As a writer he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings, World Records, Umbau and e-flux. Also, Neuman is the co-founder of www.archiveofbelonging.org. 

Ciara Hickey
Ciara Hickey is a curator based in Belfast. She is co-Director of Household (along with Alissa Kleist and Jane Butler). Household is an arts organisation that works with artists to create high quality artworks that respond to people and place. Household also runs a non for profit commissioning platform called UPHOLD that creates editions for sale and exhibitions. Ciara was formerly curator of the Freelands Artist Programme at PS2 in Belfast and curator of the Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery. She writes on art and regularly hosts public talks and conversations with artists. Ciara also works in a freelance capacity and has curated projects such as House Taken Over (2018) and An Active Encounter (2016) and most recently Mother tongue at the MAC Belfast, an exhibition with 21 artists that she co-curated with Alissa Kleist.

Tamsin Hong
Tamsin Hong is a contemporary international art curator based in London, specialising in women's knowledge systems and embodied practices. Born on unceded Ngunnawal Country in Australia, she is currently the Exhibitions Curator at Serpentine, where she has curated projects such as 'Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States' and 'Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015.' Previously, she was assistant curator at Tate, focusing on performance and acquisitions from Africa and Australia. At Tate Modern, she co-curated the land-rights exhibition 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992' (2021) and performances like Lee Mingwei's 'Our Labyrinth' (2022) and the 2020 Live Exhibition 'Our Bodies, Our Archives.'