Lua Vollaard is a curator and writer with a background in human rights research and image theory. Since 2018, she has been a curator at Stroom Den Haag.

Recent projects span across various fields of inquiry; the exhibitions Hybrid Peace (2019) by the Visual Culture Research Center, Towards a Black Testimony (2019) by Languid Hands, rite of access by left gallery (2019), Nøtel (The Hague) (2018) by Lawrence Lek, and her work as a researcher on the Forensic Architecture projects A Killing in Umm-al Hiran and Ground Truths (both 2017) all challenge the representation of justice in late liberalist societies. A further investigation is multispecies ecologies; Lua has curated two editions of Uncertainty Seminars, which investigate the subjects of multispecies communication (2020) and artistic challenges to linear time (2021), as well as group exhibition De Dingen (2018), which launched the ‘Embassy of the North Sea’ At Stroom. She is conducting a research project into models of climate fiction for the Art & Theory Research group at University of Leiden.

Lua has conducted projects for Frontier Imaginaries, steirichser herbst, Veem House for Performance, Project Arts Centre Dublin, and others. She has written for publications and organisations including Metropolis M and Het Nieuwe Instituut. Lua holds an MA in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, and teaches image theory at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and at the MA Critical Inquiry Lab at Design Academy Eindhoven.

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