Announcing our CNZ Te Manu Ka Tau visiting curator: Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide
We are pleased to announce Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide as one of our Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau visiting curators for 2025.
Yolande will arrive at the start of November spending time in Tāmaki Makaurau hosted at Artspace Aotearoa and travel to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, hosted by Te Papa Tongarewa and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery. Join Yolande for their public Question time lecture titled, That Time When We Were Not There at Artspace Aotearoa on Wednesday 5 November, details on the event page.
Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide is currently thinking through notions of regenerative time through death-life cycles with artist G, collaborating with artist Nolan Oswald Dennis on Cosmic Times, and developing an un/chrono/logical timeline tool with the Johannesburg Working Group of Another Roadmap Africa Cluster towards the 2026 collection display at the Van Abbemuseum in The Netherlands. Yolande joined the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven in 2020 as senior exhibitions curator. Prior to this role she was deputy director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht where she started as an intern in 2008. In her role as curator at Van Abbemuseum she has developed solo exhibitions with Ima-Abasi Okon (2025), Sung Hwan Kim (2023–2024), and the group exhibition Positions #7: Everything worthwhile is done with other people (2023), and collection exhibition A Lasting Truth Is Change (2022), for which she co-edited the eponymous publication. Additionally, Yolande is co-editor to Laure Prouvost, This Means Love (2021) and Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning (2018). She is a member of the editorial board of L’Internationale Online and board member at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam.
Artspace Aotearoa is pleased to deliver the Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau programme for the visual arts. This essential programme aims to establish an ongoing stake in our artists amongst leading international voices, to generate enduring conversation, and enable concrete engagements and collaborations for our artists and arts organisations in the future.
This kaupapa is presented with Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and in association with Te Papa Tongarewa and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery.