RKD Netherland Institute for art History
Since 2018, Mayken Jonkman has been senior Curator of Nineteenth-Century art for the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. She often works together with museums, universities and other institutions to organise exhibitions, symposia and research projects about topics such as artists’ mobility, their studios, the art market as well as other sociological aspects of art in the nineteenth century in the Netherlands and elsewhere.
Jonkman is currently working on her PhD thesis, titled Retour de Paris. Artistic exchanges between The Netherlands and France 1789-1914, which looks at nineteenth-century Dutch artists who travelled to, and lived in Paris. She was guest curator for the exhibitions Nederlanders in Parijs 1789-1914 / Les Hollandais à Paris, held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (autumn 2017) and the Petit Palais in Paris (spring 2018), respectively.
Mayken Jonkman studied art history at the University of Amsterdam specialising in Dutch nineteenth-century aesthetic theories in an international context. She also holds a law degree from Utrecht University with a specialty in copyright as it affects museums. Jonkman has been an RKD staff member since 2005.
Mayken Jonkman is board member of the European Society for Nineteenth Century Art (ESNA), the Van Baarenstichting (Van Baaren Foundation) and the Siebe Johannes ten Catestichting (Siebe Johannes ten Cate Foundation).