Nina Folkersma is an independent curator, writer and art historian based in Amsterdam. Her projects often explore feminism, female surrealism (and its legacies), and cross-disciplinary practices spanning visual art, performance, film, dance, and theatre.
A graduate with honors from the University of Amsterdam, she was among the first participants of De Appel’s Curatorial Programme (1995–1996). Folkersma began her career as an art critic and editor at Metropolis M, and in 2003 founded Quarantine Series, a project space for contemporary art in Amsterdam.
From 2006 to 2009, she was the International Guest Curator of Contemporary Art at S.M.A.K. in Ghent. Since then, she has organised numerous exhibitions, large-scale projects, and symposia, and has collaborated with artists such as Jesper Just, Daria Martin, Anne Hardy, Latifa Echakhch, Jennifer Tee, Alexis Blake, Paul Kooiker, Viviane Sassen, Lara Schnitger, and Marina Abramović in both solo and group exhibitions.
Recent roles include serving as Interim/Guest Curator at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Centraal Museum (Utrecht), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museum Kranenburgh (Bergen) and the Amsterdam Museum (Amsterdam). Between 2021 and 2023, Nina Folkersma was the Director of Amsterdam Art, which organises the yearly Amsterdam Art Week.
Since 2023, she has been working as Interim Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at Het Noordbrabants Museum (‘s-Hertogenbosch), where she is currently developing a landmark exhibition for 2027–2028 that will, for the first time, bring together the work of Leonora Carrington and Hieronymus Bosch.
In addition to her curatorial practice, Folkersma regularly contributes to art magazines and catalogues including Extra Extra Magazine, HART Magazine, Metropolis M, and The Burlington Magazine. She has also held various advisory and board positions, including with the North–South Metro Line Art Committee in Amsterdam, the Dutch Council for Culture (Raad voor Cultuur), and as Chair of ArtTable Nederland.