International Space Station Assembly
A Collective Construction Site

After her studies of Fine Arts in Utrecht (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) in 2004, Maaike Gouwenberg (b. 1977, the Netherlands) became artistic director of the Utrecht based exhibition space ”Expodium, platform for young art”. Besides the projects she organized in Expodium, she traveled a lot with artist Maria Pask, was a guest teacher and did (inter)national talks about Expodium. She has besides fine arts an interest in theater, film and performance. At the moment she is working at If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, a rolling platform for performative arts, curators Annie Fletcher and Frederique Bergholtz. Next to this she is the producer, both of the projects in the artist in residence BijlmAIR, and the project Visual News. She was the curator of The Black Magic Woman Award 2007, for which artists Katarina Zdjelar, Mounira Al Solh, Monali Meher and Anne Schiffer were selected.