Cynthia Jordens (b. 1981, The Netherlands) is an art historian and Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at SCHUNCK Museum in Heerlen. She also works as a guest curator at Garage Rotterdam and as an advisor to the Mondrian Fund.
At SCHUNCK, she has (co-)curated acclaimed solo exhibitions of major twentieth-century artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Niki de Saint Phalle, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol. Alongside these presentations, she is committed to advancing the work of emerging and mid-career artists from the Netherlands and beyond, including Kevin Osepa, Hadassah Emmerich, and Helen Verhoeven. She is currently developing the first comprehensive oeuvre exhibition and publication on South African artist Ina van Zyl.
Transnational and multilayered cultural narratives are central to Jordens’ curatorial practice. Her exhibitions explore themes of identity, collective memory, belonging, and cultural in-between spaces, foregrounding art as a site for reflection and transformation. As guest curator at Garage Rotterdam, she is further expanding this inquiry through a trilogy of exhibitions on the overarching theme of transformation, engaging with concepts such as repair, rememory and reworlding.
