Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg

Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg is a curator, initiator and producer based in the Netherlands, currently director of Sonsbeek, Amsterdam/Arnhem (NL) 

She specialises in working with artists to extend their practices into new territory and has often been involved in interdisciplinary projects that bring together contemporary art, film and theatre. Gouwenberg has worked on exceptional large-scale projects with LAS, Berlin; If I Can’t Dance Its Not My Revolution; Amsterdam; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, and Performa, New York. In 2022 she was co-curator of the Dutch Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennial, supporting Melanie Bonajo’s installation ‘When the body says Yes.’

She was also artistic director of Jester, Genk, Belgium in 2022. Gouwenberg served on the short and mid-length selection committee for the International Film Festival Rotterdam from 2012-2021 and was co-founder (with Joris Lindhout) and director of the multidisciplinary residency program Deltaworkers in New Orleans from 2014-2021. She has served on supervisory boards and artistic committees and curated several graduation exhibitions. Gouwenberg was a participant in the De Appel Curatorial Programme in 2006, under Ann Demeester.