Mieke Renders is the Managing Director of Trans Europe Halles (Sweden).
Mieke was born in 1975 in Bruges, Belgium. She is passionate about cultures and languages and has lived in several countries.
She is a strong believer in the independence of cultural actors and in their ability to organise themselves in networks to achieve greater impact.
Before moving to Sweden, she was the general manager of the Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam and worked as a cultural attaché for Flanders House in New York.
Mieke studied cultural and physical anthropology and cultural management. This led her to start her career in the museum and heritage world, where she worked as a curator and project manager.
A few years later, her interest also shifted to the living and performing arts and she started to make connections between heritage, performing arts and visual arts.
Networking is a passion of hers, which she could now fully develop in Trans Europe Halles, a European network for independent cultural organisations in repurposed buildings. www.teh.net
Mieke currently runs a cafe in the Swedish countryside and works as a freelance consultant on rural and urban re-activation, internationalisation of organisations.
Boardmemberships
Advisory board member ‘Open Heritage’ Horizon 2020- project 2019–2021
Boardmember Kunstenpunt, Brussels, Belgium 2015–2017
Boardmember of De Museum- stichting, Antwerpen, Belgium
2016–2018
Member of EUNIC, New York and the Netherlands 2013–2017
Boardmember of ICOM — Marketing and Public Relations Committee 2007–2015
Boardmember of Theater aan Zee, Ostend, Belgium 2007–2016
Boardmember of Ultima Thule vzw, Ghent, Belgium 2012–2016
Boardmember of Bildnis vzw, Ostend, Belgium 2012–2015
Studies
Arts management: Master after Master 2001–2002 UFSIA, Antwerp, BE
Physical Anthropology, Ethnology & Music Sciences: M.A. 1995–2001 Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, DE
Cultural anthropology: Propedeuse 1993–1995 Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, NL
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Publications
2022: Article ‘Spaces in Action’ in: Handbook Agents of Change — Cultural Work in Times of Evolving Paradigms. Onassis Foundation
The 2020 Rome Charter on Culture, United Cities and Local Governments, 2020
How to Read Contemporary Art, Michael Wilson, 2013
Luc Tuymans: The Reality of the Lowest Rank, A Vision of Central Europe, Lannoo, 2011
De kusttram: een veelzijdige kijk op de ontwikkeling van de Belgische kust. De lijn, Lannoo, 2010
Ziek. Tussen Lichaam en Geest. Museum Dr. Guislain, Lannoo, 2007
