Zippora Elders
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Zippora Elders is a curator, passionate about leadership, connection and imagination. Currently she is Senior Curator at the renowned Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, where she is developing programming about desire and manifesting change through staging, movement, performance and choreography, in the context of a museum, city and world in transition. Before she was the Head of Curatorial Department & Outreach at Gropius Bau in Berlin, the largest exhibition hall of Europe. She has also been the director of Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, a UNESCO fort and peninsula in the water defence line of Amsterdam; a heritage site and varied community that she uplifted as a retreat for contemporary art and ecological exchange under the themes of science fiction and enchantment, healing, fertility.
Other previous appointments include a.o. curator at Foam Museum for Photography and curator-in- training at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. From 2019 until 2022, she was Co-curator for the iconic Sonsbeek quadrennial, in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She continues to be active as a guest curator, advisor and board member for international organizations.
