Rieke Vos
Rieke Vos is a curator based in Amsterdam. Her work is largely interdisciplinary and context-responsive, fostering dialogues between contemporary art and adjacent fields such as music, theater, performance, pop- and nightlife culture, architecture, urbanism, and, more recently, the natural sciences. Through her projects, she aims to highlight the significance of contemporary art and visual artists within a broader context.
She is the curator of the Dutch entry at the Venice Biennale 2026 where, together with artist and theatre maker Dries Verhoeven, she presents The Fortress, a performative artwork that takes the pavilion designed by Gerrit Rietveld and the Venice Biennale itself as its starting point for a work that explores the instinct for self-preservation in the face of major geopolitical uncertainty.
In 2025 she curated HIP HOP IS at Groninger Museum, an exhibition that explores the visual art of Hip Hop from the late 1970s to the present, including works by Rammellzee, Dondi White, Martha Cooper, Janette Beckman, Delta, Mick La Rock, Dana Lixenberg, Arthur Jafa, Umar Rashid, Iris Kensmil and many more.
In 2023, she joined the Teylers Museum in Haarlem (NL)—the oldest museum in the Netherlands, founded in 1784—as its first-ever Curator for Contemporary Arts. Her program seeks to establish relevant connections between art and science while offering a contemporary perspective on the museum’s encyclopedic history and its remarkable collection of visual art, scientific instruments, and geological objects. In 2025 she curated the exhibition COSMOS, exploring our evolving relationship with the stars. In 2023 she also opened Beyond the Glacier, a solo show by artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen, that looked at a disappearing glacier cave through the lens of a scientific travel journal from 1843.
Before joining Teylers Museum, Rieke served as Senior Curator at Het HEM, a home for contemporary culture housed in a 10,000 m² former factory building in Zaandam (NL). There, she curated four major exhibitions in collaboration with Patta founders Edson Sabajo & Guillaume ‘Gee’ Schmidt (2019), composer Nicolás Jaar (2019), stylist Maarten Spruyt (2020), and architects Samir Bantal/Rem Koolhaas (2022). She also initiated ALL INN (2021), a collective graduation show featuring more than 175 students from nine different art academies in response to the COVID-19 lockdown.
Rieke was a participant in the De Appel Curatorial Programme (2010–2011) and holds a master’s degree in Art History from the University of Amsterdam.
Rieke@DAI:
2026 ~ Life after DAI Coaching at Centrale Fies