Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez is a curator, writer and researcher from Amsterdam, based in Mexico-City. She founded and runs the Green Art Lab Alliance (est. 2012), a network of sixty art organizations in Europe, Latin America, and Asia which pursues the fostering of relationships that contribute to social and environmental justice. The alliance, which acts like a mycelium, is the fruit of over a decade of research she has conducted across (East) Asia, Latin America, and Europe on artists proposing alternative ways of living and working—ways that ultimately shape more sustainable, interconnected, and resilient communities. She has extensively worked on international cultural mobility programs and on the topic of art and ecology, working for expert organizations that include Julie’s Bicycle (United Kingdom), Labverde (Brazil), and TransArtists (Netherlands). She is the founder of the Nature Research Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands), the Van Eyck Food Lab (2018), and the Future Materials Bank (2020). Furthermore, she has been curator-in-residence in various art institutions, including Kunst Haus Wien (Austria, 2017), Capacete (Brazil, 2019–2020), Valley of the Possible (Chile, 2022), Bamboo Curtain Studio (Taiwan, 2015–2016,) and with colectivo amasijo (Mexico, 2021). She is a self-proclaimed ‘mycophile’ and interested in using a mycological lens to define sustainable and fair models of collaboration and organization. Her first book called Let's Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts came out in 2023 and is published by Valiz.
