Stroom Invest Week 2024

Stroom Invest Week 2024
17 - 21 June 2024
Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague

The annual Stroom Invest Week is an inspiring program for young talented Hague artists and visiting art professionals, linked to the PRO Invest Grant.

This grant provides a constructive contribution to the professional development of the artists.
The goal of the Stroom Invest Week is to:
(a) offer talented artists high-quality reflection and constructive criticism of their work
(b) contribute to strengthening and broadening their networks and contacts
(c) introduce visiting professional artists and curators to the international Hague arts scene and artistic climate through informal visits to various art institutions.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
The artists participating in the Invest Week 2024 received a PRO Invest grant in 2023. They are (in alphabetical order):

Jan Dirk Adams
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Arthur Cordier
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Sina Dyks
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Johannes Equizi
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Diana Gheorghiu
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Marcos Kueh
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Erik Kamaletdinov
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Cristina Lavosi
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Haevan Lee
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Yukari Nakamichi
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Madeline Swainhart
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Alexander Webber
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Vita Soul Wilmering
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Mina Yee
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VISITING CURATORS & ARTISTS

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.
https://fennesaedt.com

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.
https://joepvossebeld.com

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 14^thIstanbul 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.
https://femmyotten.nl

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).