Joanne Dijkman

Art historian and lecturer art history and art theory at AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts.

Joanne Dijkman MA, art historian and lecturer in art history and theory at AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts, is as a PhD researcher affiliated with the AeCT Professorship (external member). She is working on a PhD into radical experiments in higher art education at ASCA (UvA), under the supervision of Prof. dr. Dr. René Boomkens (supervisor) and Dr. Jeroen Lutters (co-supervisor).

Joanne studied art history with a specialization in modern and contemporary art at Utrecht University and also completed the Bachelor of Visual Art and Design in Education at the HKU. She taught art in secondary and upper secondary education, worked in museum education as a museum teacher and art mediator (BAK, basis for contemporary art, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Sonsbeek 2008, RijksOPEN, Rijksacademie) and lectured art history at the HKU. She also supervised internships in art education at the HKU. Since 2008 she gives lectures in arttheory and art history at AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts.

In June 2010 she received a grant from the BKVB Fonds (now Mondriaan Fonds) to participate in the SMAX program, a DutchGerman cooperation project in which a Dutch and two German curators are given the opportunity to spend a year with their own budget to curate exhibitions in various museums and art institutions in the Euregio, as a result of which she was able to realize several exhibitions (Museum Arnhem, Kunsthalle Münster, Schloss Ringenberg) in this aria.