Text My Sister is a decentralized platform for contemporary art in North-Brabant, led by three curators. We focus on questions of collectivity and connectedness from a pluriform perspective. Within our program, we depart from collective learning and link this to annually changing focal points, with the program developed as a coherent constellation of research and public activities. Our working method closely intertwines artistic practice, reflection, and knowledge-sharing. The program includes exhibitions, workshops, reading groups, film screenings, performances, lectures, and festivals.
We founded Text My Sister out of a desire to collaborate in a different way—both within our team and with other artists, curators, and organizations. This mode of collaboration is shaped by interdependence, shared ownership, and institutional partnership, offering an alternative to hierarchical and competitive organizational models. From this desire for collaboration, we also reflect on our position as an organization within the North Brabant region. We recognize that our longing for cooperation and connectedness is shared by others in regions outside the Randstad.
At present, interregional collaboration between non-Randstad regions remains limited, partly because project-based funding leaves little room for developing sustainable artistic trajectories and long-term structural partnerships. We respond to this need by placing exchange at the core of our program. Operating without a fixed location, we consciously embrace interdependence as a relational and decentralized platform. All program components are developed in collaboration with our partner organizations, positioning us both as host and guest. Through this approach, we aim to build a resilient interregional infrastructure that makes the art landscape more distributed and adaptive.
By bringing together artists, thinkers, and organizations, we create space for experimentation, mutual support, and the questioning and expansion of existing artistic practices. Through this cross-pollination, we strive to highlight geographical and cultural nuances, with the aim of developing a complex and layered understanding of the topics we explore. In doing so, we also examine how local, geographical, and cultural contexts shape artistic production and organizational models.
