Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide

Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide is exhibitions curator at Van Abbemuseum. Previously she was deputy director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, where she began as an intern in 2008. Her interests lie in diverse, intersecting perspectives and modes that decentre the oppressor in practices of freedom and liberation, and influence art institutional practices. She is co-editor of several books including Unlearning Exercises: Art Organisations as Sites for Unlearning(Casco Art Institute, Valiz, 2018); Laure Prouvost, This Means Love (Lisson Gallery, Van Abbemuseum, 2021). She has been a tutor at the Dutch Art Institute, Roaming Academy (Southern Wave, 2016 and All About My Mother, 2019), thesis advisor in the Fine Arts department at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2016–2019) and is a board member at Neverneverland, Amsterdam and at Kunstituut Melly, Rotterdam.