From 1 January 2025, the team of chairmen for the advisory committees has been expanded with Julius Thissen and Roomyla Choenni. Together with Maarten Doorman, Sandjai Bhulai, Christian Braak, Youri Appelo, Rita Ouédraogo, Raul Balai, Thomas Bakker and Peter van Es, they form the Mondriaan Fund’s team of chairmen. The 10 members are professionals from across the country and bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the meeting table. They chair several meetings a year in the field of visual arts and cultural heritage and ensure a uniform working method across all committees.
Read more about the new chairs below.
Julius Thissen
Julius Thissen is a visual artist and artistic researcher, living and working in Arnhem. In his visual practice he works with the media photography, film, and performance. His works mainly investigate community and representation, gender, in particular masculinity, contemporary performance culture, the influence of social expectations on our behavior, sports and competition. Within his artistic research, Thissen focuses on investigating diversification processes within the creative sector, in particular in museums. He does this by organizing artistic community-based research projects, developing residencies and advising museums and cultural institutions.
Roomyla Choenni
Roomyla Choenni is the director of Groninger Archives. In addition, she works as an advisor on visual arts and cultural heritage at the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, among other things. She was previously head of strategy & policy at the University Library University of Amsterdam/Hogeschool van Amsterdam and the Allard Pierson, among others, and was an advisor at the Mondriaan Fund for many years. Choenni specialises in (digital) heritage, digital civil rights and decolonisation and has held various board positions in the cultural sector. Her mission is to actively bring perspectives together and strengthen free access to heritage and information.