Jesse van Oosten

Jesse van Oosten is currently the Assistant Curator at TENT, a platform for contemporary art in Rotterdam, where she is responsible for public programs. She developed the lecture series, “Current Values,” and is developing and producing the upcoming exhibition The Value of Nothing, which will open Spring 2014. Van Oosten has curated several exhibitions at MAMA: Showroom for Media and Moving Art, Rotterdam, such as The Silent Clowns with artists such as Roman Signer and John Bock (2012); and You all fell for my act (2011), which included Jaimie Warren, Ai Weiwei, Kalup Linzy, and Evan Baden. Since September 2012, she has been curating several art projects at Upominki, a project space for young artists and curators in Rotterdam. Together with artistic researcher Dieuwke Boersma, van Oosten is also part of the interview-performance duo, SandWitz. She received her BA in Liberal Arts in Utrecht, and participated in MAMA’s curatorial trainee program, Rookies MA. She has her MA in Theory of Modern and Contemporary Art and World Art Studies from Leiden University.