A.R. (Anna-Rosja) Haveman

Anna-Rosja Haveman is a PhD researcher and curator. Her PhD project looks at ecocritical artistic approaches to coastal landscapes in The Netherlands from 1970 until today. In this project, she combines historical research with practice-based approaches, including collaborations with artists and curatorial explorations. In 2021 she organized a MA/PhD Summer School “The Knowledge of the Curator: Curating Art and Nature”, with 10 international speakers, workshops with artists and a curating programme. In 2022 she was session convenor of the Panel “Aesthetics and Politics of Sustainability” at the Association for Art History’s 48th Annual Conference, London/online.

She has curated the solo exhibtion Cristina Lucas: Environment is Us at Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen (April-September 2023). You can listen to a podcast about the exhibition here. Another curatorial projects she is involved with is Deluge, with three artists who travel to coastal regions in England, Scotland and The Netherlands. She has previously worked at the Groninger Museum as junior curator and founded the Livingallery during her studies, where she organised exhibitions with young promising artists. 

Anna-Rosja Haveman has published among others in the Dutch art journals Metropolis M, Kunstlicht and de Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt. Academic publications include the paper “The 5 Continent documenta 7 - The material of James Lee Byars’s ephemeral practice” in Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (2021) and a chapter “Twee eigenzinnige laatbloeiers. Job Hansen en Jan Jordens in het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam” in Nieuwe wegen, De Ploeg en de moderne kunst na de oorlog, published by WBooks and Stichting De Ploeg (2019).

She has won several awards, amongst them the Sustainable Society award at the University of Groningen and the Claudine de With Beurs of Vereniging Rembrandt.