With a background in documentary photography Dr. Andrea Stultiens (NL, 1974, she/her) developed an artistic research practice in which images and imaginations of Africa are investigated through archive activations. She received a BA from Utrecht School of the Arts (1998), MFA from St. Joost School of Art & Design (2001), MA from Leiden University (Photographic Studies, 2012), and successfully defended a thesis on this historical context and contemporary use of photographs in Uganda in 2018 (PhDArts, Leiden University).
Since 2002 Andrea has been teaching in various more and less institutional contexts, particularly in the Netherlands, and Uganda.
Together with Ugandan artist Canon Griffin, Andrea initiated in 2011 the platform History In Progress Uganda, which aims to critically expand the potential engagement with the Uganda’s past through photographs. Andrea works in collective settings with artists, academics and other people who have a stake in the archives or photo collections that are activated. This leads to academic- and artistic publications as well as exhibitions and other types of presentations. This collective mode of working extends to Andrea’s style of teaching in which learning with and from each other is central to the methods used.
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