Look Who's Talking: Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide (NL)
Walk through Portia Zvavahera’s exhibition Kuzviramba Mamuri through the lens of curator Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide.
For Zola Zoli van der Heide, collection-making is a way of world-building. She considers artistic practice as a driving force towards transformation and institutional reinvention. During this walk-through of the exhibition, Van der Heide engages in a new relationship with the otherworldly forms and energies that inhabit Zvavahera’s work.
Photo: Felixe Laing
Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide is a curator working across collections and contemporary artistic production. Her curatorial practice examines how institutions can rethink inherited structures of chronology, classification and cultural value.
At the Van Abbemuseum, she’s worked extensively with its collection. She introduced a deaccession protocol informed by artist collaboration and curated and edited books for the Collection as Cosmos (2026) and A Lasting Truth Is Change (2022). She has curated solo exhibitions with Ima-Abasi Okon and Sung Hwan Kim, as well as group exhibitions including Positions #7: Everything Worthwhile is Done with Other People (2023).
Yolande is a member of the editorial board of L’Internationale Online and a board member at Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam.
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Practical info
- Registration recommended.
- The price of the guided tour is included in the exhibition ticket. No extra charge.
