From all applications, the balloting committee will make the selection for Art Eindhoven 2027. Diana Kostman, Paulo Martina, Ronald Ramakers, Steven ten Thije en Raoul Locht maken deel uit van deze commissie.
Diana Kostman
Diana Kostman (1978) studied art history and general cultural studies at the University of Amsterdam. In 2006, she founded her own company, Artemis Omnibus, which specialises in art history courses and lectures. In addition to these activities, she and her partner organise art and culinary history gatherings under the name Artelicious.
Diana writes articles and texts for Beeldenmagazine and for various museums. From 2004 to 2023, she was a member of the Laren, Blaricum and Eemnes art committee, serving as chair for the last five years. She is also an advisor to the Blaricum-Laren Collection Foundation and served on the board of a national artists' association for 15 years.
Raoul Locht
Raoul Locht (Sorengo (Switzerland), 1976) studied art and cultural philosophy and journalism at the University of Groningen and the University of Amsterdam. From 2003 to 2014, he was publisher and editor-in-chief of both the magazines Atelier and kM (artists' material) and several art books. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as project manager at the National Art Platform for, among others, the Annual Dutch Art Fair (ADAF), the elections Painting of the Year, Drawing of the Year and the Van Gogh Painting Competition 2015. Since early 2017, he has been director of De Kunst Collega's (Art Colleagues) BV and chairman of Stichting Kunstweek (Art Week Foundation). Photo: Almicheal Fraay
Ronald Ramakers
Former Director of Glow Eindhoven
Steven ten Thije
Steven ten Thije (1980, The Hague) is Head of Collections at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. He started working in the museum in 2009 and has organized numerous exhibitions, publications, seminars and events. Recently he curated the last collection display Delinking-Relinking in the Collection of the Van Abbemuseum (2021 – 2025). Between 2013 and 2028 he was project leader of the European Programme The Uses of Art – The heritage of 1848 and 1989. This programme was realized by the European museum confederation L’Internationale, of which the Van Abbemuseum is a founding member. Within this programme he was co-editor of the e-publication Ecologising Museums (2016), Decolonizing Archives (2016) and Decolonizing Museums (2015). In 2016 he published the essay The Emancipated Museum, written in commission to the Mondrian Funds. Between 2017 and 2020 he was a member of the museum advisory committee of the Dutch Art Council (Raad voor Cultuur), which was responsible for the sector analysis In wankel evenwicht (In fragile balance) (2018).
Paulo Martina
Also a valued member of the balloting committee. Drs Paulo Martina has been director of Musea Zutphen since 2023. Paulo Martina was born in Curaçao in 1964. When he was twelve, he came to the Netherlands. In 1994, he obtained his master's degree in Art History from the University of Amsterdam, specialising in the Newest Period. For nine years, he was director-manager of Museum Dr8888. Under his leadership, the Museum in Drachten grew from a Frisian regional museum to a national museum of modern art, with an international reach. As director of Museum Dr8888, his positions included being a member of the steering committee ‘100 Years De Stijl - From Mondrian to Dutch Design’, participating in the celebration of ‘DADA 100’ and producing various events that formed part of the main programme of Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2018. From 2019, he was director of Museum van Bommel van Dam in Venlo. He successfully led the transition to the new accommodation of this museum in the former monumental main post office. He was not only responsible for raising the necessary funds and supervising the construction, but also for the multi-year policy plan and setting up the new organisation.
