Theo Tegelaers is board member and curator at TAAK. In response to the budget cuts of cultural subsidies, Theo founded TAAK in 2012. At TAAK, Theo is curator of various projects such as Cure Park, Bestemming Drachten and Verloren en Hervonden Theo was the first director of W139, an exhibition [...more]
Charlotte Bijl is projectmanager at TAAK and takes care of the general business management. She studied Cultural Heritage at the Reinwardt Academie in Amsterdam, where she minored in Cultural Entrepreneurship. She also holds the NIMA A Marketing Diploma. During her studies she became interested in the relationship between art, culture [...more]
Marlies van Hak is a researcher and writer at TAAK. She holds a master’s degree in Cultural Memory from Radboud University, where she graduated with a thesis on art in the public domain and forms of collective and embodied memory. Since then, space and [...more]
Tibor Bijl is a producer at TAAK, working on a wide range of programmes. He is currently in his second year of the part-time master’s programme Creative Producing at the DAS Graduate School, where he researches and develops innovative models of production, organization, and funding in the art [...more]
Gwen van der Zwan works as a communication manager for TAAK and is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and journalist in Amsterdam. She has written for VICE, The Next Web, De Internet Gids, and Human and is one of the founders of art and skate platform FOEF. [...more]
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Sara Blokland is part of the general board of the TAAK foundation. She is a visual artist, curator and independent photography researcher. With her research and visual work, she reflects on the role of photography and archives in (post)colonial histories. Blokland studied at the Rietveld Academie and the [...more]
Linda Vlassenrood is a member of the general board of the TAAK foundation. She is a passionate curator, programme leader, author, speaker, and advisor, dedicated to making complex urban issues transparent and open to discussion in a stimulating way. She is regularly commissioned by cultural institutions, municipalities and [...more]
Annette Kouwenhoven is a member of the general board of the TAAK foundation. She is an artist, designer, and one of the founding members of Amsterdam City Rights, a project by the Here to Support foundation. This project is run [...more]
Arjan van Meeuwen is part of the general board of the TAAK foundation. He is an experienced manager in the cultural sector, with an extensive network in the city of Utrecht. Since 2018, he is the managing director of the dance company WArd/waRD – Ann van den Broek, [...more]