Photo: Anouk de Keersemaeker
Photo: Anouk de Keersemaeker - Els van der Plas will become director of the Allard Pierson in Amsterdam on 1 April 2022. She is currently managing director of the Bonnefanten in Maastricht. Van der Plas succeeds Wim Hupperetz, who has accepted the position of Chief Science Officer at the national Cultural Heritage Agency. Born in 1960, van der Plas studied art history at Utrecht University, and she has successively held the positions of founder and director of the Gate Foundation (1987-1997), first director of the Prince Claus Fund (1997-2010), director of Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion (2011-2012) and general director of the National Opera & Ballet, before becoming managing director of the Bonnefanten in Maastricht in 2020. At Bonnefanten, Van der Plas looks back on an enjoyable period at one of the most beautiful museums in the Netherlands. Petra Stienen (chairperson of the Museum Supervisory Board): 'We congratulate Els van der Plas with her honourable appointment to the Allard Pierson. We thank her for her work on the positioning, development and relationship management of the museum.
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