Sanne Oorthuizen is part of the curatorial team at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht, where she works closely with Binna Choi on programming, curating, generating resources and community development. Her interests lie in socially and politically engaged art practices that call for collaboration, community and action. She is a member of Electric Palm Tree. She previously worked at Centraal Museum Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta. She was a participant of de Appel Curatorial Programme 2011/2012. Oorthuizen studied Art History and Museum Curating and wrote her MA thesis on community based art practices in Indonesia and their critical potential in how we experience history as well as the time of our lives.
