Maarten (1978, Amstelveen, The Netherlands) says: "After studying for one year at the Montaigne Academy, Amsterdam (currently AMFI), I switched to study philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where I obtained my master. At the VU, I specialised in aesthetics, ethics and antiquity/archaeology. I try to combine my lifelong passion for the arts, especially for painting and music, with cognitive investigations into (the mainly continental) philosophical discourses. Next to that, I have studied art history as a minor, and researched many sources on (historical) art materials and technologies."
"I started working since 2008 at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where I have created courses in philosophy for the Bachelor of Graphic Design. In recent years I work together with Image course to have joint projects on socio-cultural subjects. Next to that, I have for more than ten years been the lecturer and research group teacher in the academy-wide (first year) program of Research & Discourse. In 2024, this program has been substituted for a new program ‘Common Ground’. There I now continue lecturing and teaching the convert sessions. Since 2020, together with Ingrid Grünwald, I have been organizing big dialogues at KABK and other European art schools. Sessions to work on collectivity, articulation and problem solving. These experiences led us to participate in the research group of the lectorate ‘Politics of knowledge’."