Huib Haye van der Werf

Description

Huib Haye van der Werf was interim-director at de Appel arts center in Amsterdam in 2022. Before that he initiated/led together with Radna Rumping mistral in Amsterdam, an organization dedicated to archives and abundance. In 2019, he was appointed curator of the 2020 Yinchuan Biennale in China (cancelled due to Covid-19). From 2013 to 2020 he was head of the artistic program at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Furthermore, from 2012 to 2014 he worked as founder/curator for TAAK, an international organization for social-artistic commissioning; from 2011 to 2012 curator for the Art in Public Space Foundation (SKOR); and from 2008 to 2011 curator for the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam (now Nieuwe Instituut). He also writes fiction, children’s stories, contributes to periodicals such as Artforum, Metropolis M, Mousse Magazine, Manifesta Journal and Open, and has written for various artist-publications and film/performance productions. He has a podcast series called The Listening Tide that he hosts in his living room in Amsterdam, where he is also the part-time father of a ten-year-old.