Laurie Cluitmans is a curator, writer and researcher. Since January 2026 she works as Director of Nest Hague. Nest is a center for contemporary art in The Hague that explores urgent social, political, and cultural questions through exhibitions, commissions, public programs, and education. Working with local, national, and international artists, Nest develops thematic exhibitions that connect artistic practice to broader societal contexts and lived experience. Before joining Nest, Cluitmans 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. 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 Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Ansuya Blom, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Rory Pilgrim and 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.