Saskia van Stein

Saskia van Stein (she/her) is an educator, moderator, curator and holds the position of artistic and managing Director of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). Van Stein also holds the position as co - Head of Department, MA The Critical Inquiry Lab at the Design Academy, Eindhoven. Prior to this, she was artistic and managing Director at Bureau Europa, platform for architecture and design, Maastricht, 2013–2019. 

Van Stein’s curatorial practice started at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (now Nieuwe Instituut) in Rotterdam, 2002–2012, where her first steps were made by curating exhibitions and public events on the intersection of architecture culture, political and human sciences, design and fine arts. Over the span of her career, her deep-seated interest in the discourse surrounding the politics of representation panned out into experimentation with different exhibition formats, modes of display and methods of knowledge production, as well as moderating and participating in numerous discursive events. She has often spearheaded topics and themes, in and outside of the confined walls of institutional realms, questioning cultural production and the designed environment itself. Van Stein often lectures, moderators debates, takes part in juries and has been chair on boards of many cultural institutions, both within The Netherlands as in the international (cultural) realm