Kim van der Horst

Location

Amsterdam (NL)

Genre

Archive

Tags

Feminism

Initiator, connector, allround spider-in-the-web, jack-of-all-trades, director, skydiver, world record holder, brownie backer, newsletter writer, competitor, aunt of eight, art lover, introvert, feminist and traveller. Kim has been working as a project manager at Foundation Constant since 2012 and is director since 2022.

L’insurrection, 1985
L’insurrection, 1985
Grieks theater, 1948
Grieks theater, 1948
Jongen met leeuw, 1987
Jongen met leeuw, 1987
ZT-Landschap met sectoren, 1953
ZT-Landschap met sectoren, 1953

At Fondation Constant Kim set up the organizational structure, developed the website and database for the catalog raisonné research and supervised its construction. In 2015 and 2016 she coordinated the collaboration between the foundation, the Cobra Museum and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag on the double exhibition Constant: space + colour and Constant. New Babylon, To Us Liberty respectively. She was in charge of documenting Constant’s library, its archives and the construction of the storage for the foundation’s collection. She was the initiator, producer and director of Constant 101 and the initiatior and artistic director of Enter New Babylon. Kim has a Master’s degree International Business from Maastricht University (2002) and studied Theater and Acting at De Trap in Amsterdam (2008).

Gift card from Constant to Kim, 1997
Gift card from Constant to Kim, 1997

In her parallel life she is a fanatic skydiver, currently holding three current world record titles. The 80-way Vertical Women’s World Record of November 2022 is her favourite because there is nothing better than a large group of high achieving women getting together in the sky to smash a world record. This last record was to celebrate that 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. The 19th Amendment gave women in de US the right to vote. The 2022 Women’s World Record was in honour of all those trail blazing women who mounted the barricades and fought for 72 years to earn the right to vote. If they had not done this women today would not have the liberty they do. The wish is to pay that forward.

By the way, did you know that Constant and his wife sponsored Kim’s first skydive in 2002?

80-way Women’s Vertical World Record at Skydive Arizon, 2022

On Constant

When Kim started working for Fondation Constant in 2011 she could not fathom that 10 years later she would still contrive new ideas and projects connected to his work on a daily basis. Back then, she thought she would help set up the foundation and after 5 years pass it on to someone else and go back to theater. But Constant, his ideas and his work reeled her in slowly but surely. The immense intelligence, diversity, originality and engagement of his work excites her still. Constant 101 has now firmly taken root as the contemporary branch of the organisation.