Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide
Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide is exhibitions curator at Van Abbemuseum. Her interests lie in diverse intersecting perspectives – institutional, trans-local, feminist, queer, intersectional, and modes that decentre the oppressor in practices of freedom and liberation – to influence art institutional practices.
Previously she was deputy director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, where she began as an intern in 2008, and worked as producer on several project exhibitions including the Grand Domestic Revolution (2009—2012). More recently she was co-curator of exhibitions, assemblies and events at Casco including: Het is of de Stenen Spreken (silence is a commons) with artists Ama Josephine Budge, Ansuya Blom, Babi Badilov, and Mire Lee (2019); ‘Curating Strategies of Productive Refusal’ with Gabi Ngcobo; co-organiser with Binna Choi, Annette Krauss, Ying Que, Joram Kraaijeveld, Thomas de Groot, Taru Aitola, Teresa Borasino, Harriet Bergman, and Clementine Edwards of ‘Our House is on Fire’, second assembly for commoning art institutions and on art organisations as sites for unlearning, 2019. Yolande is co-editor to several books published with Casco including Unlearning Exercises: Art Organisations as Sites for Unlearning (co-published with Valiz, 2018).
Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide@DAI:
Publishing Class III - How to Live Together
Publishing Class ll at the New York Art Book Fair