current & upcoming
Postdoctoral research, Uranium Matters: An Interdisciplinary Study of Radiotoxicity in the Arts, supported by a VENI grant of the Dutch National Science foundation, 2024-2028
Artistic research grant for Récits médusés. Au bord des eaux nucléaires (Medusas’ Tales. At the Edge of Nuclear Waters), with Agnès Villette, L’Ecole Supérieure des Arts de l’image LE 75, funded by Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), 2027-2029
Invited guest lecture The matter of risk. Antinuclear feminisms in the art of the 1980s, workshop “Nuclear Genocide”, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, 20 May 2026
Member of the research consortium JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research with From the Ground Up: Repairing Soil Systems, as part of NWA-ORC (Dutch Research Agenda: Research by Consortia), 2026-2031
Research grants, Anna Polke Stiftung ATHANOR NOW: Troubling Pigments (after Polke) in collaboration with the Rijksakademie and the research project Scenographies of Toxicity, 2026
Forthcoming book Toxic Materialities: Exposure and Pollution in Art Making Across Histories and Geographies, under contract with Brill, Studies in Art & Materiality. Edited by Christian Berger, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou and Ruby de Vos
selected past projects
Guest lecture Scenographies of Toxicity. Material Hazards in the Exhibition Site, study day Kontaminierte Kunst? Von Polkes Materialpolitik zu Gefährdung als künstlerischer Strategie, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 26 March 2023
Guest lecture Roundtable: Nuclear Histories and Protest Movements, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 15 Mar 2026
Guest lecture, in collaboration with Susanne Kriemann, The anatomy of a uranium mine, in the frame of the workshop Posthuman Ecofeminism in Art, Literature, and Aesthetics, University of Bonn, October 2025
Essay Pure Fiction, OCTOPUS, magazine of EMΣT, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, special issue on animals edited by Filipa Ramos
Guest talk and book presentation with Susanne Kriemann at Camera Austria, Graz, for her artist book Ray, Rock, Rowan (Being a Photograph), 17 May 2025
Guest lecture Keeping the Nukes out, from Hawaii to Malta: 1980s Antinuclear Feminisms, in and through Art, Peace Histories Seminar Series, Leiden University, 12 May 2025
Convener of the hybrid symposium & workshop More-than-Human Worlds in Artistic Research, VU Art Science gallery, in collaboration with the University of Stavanger and the University of Bristol, 14 May 2025
Lunch lecture Crafting with Radiotoxicity: Feminist Approaches to Nuclear Materials in Art during the Cold War, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, 12 April 2025
Article Images of Pollution and the Pollution of Images: Postindustrial Landscapes on and through Film, Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1)
Scientific advisor of the exhibition L’Âge atomique. Les artistes à l’épreuve de l’histoire, Musée d’art moderne de Paris, October 2024 – February 2025