Renny ramakers biography sampler

Dutch art historian, curator, design critic

Renny Ramakers is a Dutch art historian, curator, design critic, and co-founder and director of the Droog design foundation.

Ramakers writes articles, gives lectures, initiates projects and curates exhibitions in the field of art and design. In 2007 she was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize,^[1] in 2019 the IJprijs for her cultural contribution to the city of Amsterdam,^[2] and in 2018 she received a Dutch Royal Award for her work in the field of Dutch Design.

Renny ramakers biography sampler

Life and work

Ramakers graduated in art history at the University of Leiden in 1982. Her graduation work published in 1984 was about the Nederlandsche Bond voor Kunst in Industrie, a Dutch union for arts and crafts and industrial design.

Later in the 1980s Ramakers wrote articles about design in the national newspapers NRC Handelsblad and de Volkskrant. In 1987 she joined forces with Christine de Baan and Ed Annink and founded the Foun