Laurie Cluitmans is a curator, writer and researcher. Since January 2026 she works as Director of Nest, center for contemporary art, in The Hague. Before joining Nest, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centraal Museum, where she anchored the position of contemporary art through a program that balanced topicality and historical roots; temporary interventions and long-term research programs; local embeddedness and international collaboration.
Cluitmans curated a.o. transhistorical research exhibitions such as The Botanical Revolution in 2021 for which she compiled and edited the publication On the Necessity of Gardening; An ABC on Art, Botany and Cultivation (designed by Bart de Baets) and Good Mom/Bad Mom in 2025, which was accompanied by Mothering Myths: An ABC on Art, Birth and Care (icw Heske ten Cate). Besides she curated many solo exhibitions, a.o. with Ansuya Blom, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Rory Pilgrim and (currently on view) Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide).
In addition to her curatorial work Cluitmans is a regular contributor to magazines such as MetropolisM and De Witte Raaf.