Anouchka van Driel, curator, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in design from ArtEZ University of Arts and a master’s degree in Visual Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London. Now she works between Beijing, China, and The Hague, the Netherlands.
Anouchka has been lived and workd in China for over a decade, developing art and design projects that stimulate dialogue and experimentation between creative disciplines and cultures. She has contributed to the success of numerous creative projects with partners including among others the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dutch Design Fashion Architecture, UCCA, the City of Amsterdam, and Beijing Design Week. Her recent projects include the exhibition “Social Design: Learning at Play” with People’s Architecture Office at Shenzhen’s Design Society, and the regenerative design exhibition “Disruptive Matter” for K11 art spaces in Hong Kong and Shenyang.
She was the 2021 the recipient of the M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship, the fellowship supports original research projects that investigate issues relating to design and architecture in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and Asia through a transnational lens.