Inez Boogaarts

I am a consultant, researcher and manager in the arts and culture sector and currently living in Rotterdam, NL. I have been working in the Netherlands, USA, Belgium and Germany.

I was a.o. Director of the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam from October 2019 to October 2021. I was Managing Director of the Zukunftsakademie NRW (Bochum) from 2016 to 2019 and head of the Press and Culture Department of the Consulate General of the Netherlands (2006-2011) in Düsseldorf.

In addition to a degree in Social Geography, I have international experience in the areas of local and (inter)national cultural policy, cultural management, international cooperation and transformation processes (a.o. Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur/ RRKC, SICA Foundation/ DutchCulture).

Currently I am working as a consultant for the Kunstmuseum Bochum and the Fonds Soziokultur, together with Abhay Adhikari. Also I have done short term assignments for the NL Embassy in Berlin (Mapping the Potentials of Chemnitz25, European Cultural Capital 2025), MAAS TD (children and youth theater), Goethe Institut Rotterdam and Theater Inclusief.

Check out my current activities here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inez-boogaarts/

Here is a recent publication on cultural diversity in North-Rhine Westphalia I worked on together with my colleagues at the Zukunftsakademie NRW: “Work Book”.

Another hands-on publication on international cooperation ("Successful international collaboration: ten tips!") and an earlier one, Jonge Kunst. Evaluation des Förderprogramms 2013 – 2015 (German) of the matching-grant “Jonge Kunst” by the Fonds for Cultuurparticipatie en Fonds Soziokultur.

I serve regularly on juries and supervisory boards. And my other interests range from cycling to swimming, hiking, reading and arts.