Radna Rumping Radna Rumping
Radna Rumping is a curator, writer, artist and advisor based in Amsterdam. Her practice is relational and collaborative, engaging with public space, experimental archiving, forms of gathering, and conditions of (in)visibility. She is drawn to artistic practices that defy categorisation, with a special interest in performance art.
Radio and sound run as a continuous thread through her work. In 2015 she co-founded Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, an online radio platform dedicated to the arts. Her sound pieces and essays — which have been presented in exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad — can be found at sofarsoreal.net.
Previous curatorial projects include the exhibition and publication Daddy Party آن نافه مراد که میخواستم ز بخت درچین زلف آن بت مشکین کلاله بود by Chupan Atashi at Metro54 (2025). She also curated Come Closer, a performance program at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam (2015–2022), and was part of Gift Science Archive, a durational archiving performance in collaboration with Sands Murray-Wassink, Megan Hoetger, and If I Can’t Dance (2020–2021). She is a founding partner at Loom – practice for cultural transformation, and member of the Stadscuratorium, the advisory committee for art in public space for the City of Amsterdam.
In 2026, Radna is part of Framer Framed’s fellowship programme in collaboration with the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, aiming to bridge political sciences with contemporary artistic practices of political engagement. During the fellowship, Radna builds on her recent essay publication Shaky Ground (Stubborn Material) to examine ‘stubborn material’ as it manifests within Amsterdam’s public space. Her research foregrounds artistic practices — past and present — that challenge dominant modes of visibility, repetition and control, and attends to how fragile, invisible or intricate arrangements come into being and persist.
