Education
Radboud University Nijmegen. University of Amsterdam.
Radboud University Nijmegen. University of Amsterdam.
She worked as a visual artist from 1985–2003. Since then her primary focus has been on art and design theory. Schouwenberg has curated exhibitions on the cutting edge of art and design and has worked as adviser for many organisations.
She regularly writes for (inter)national art and design magazines and has contributed to a range of books, some of the latest being the monograph: Hella JongeriusMisfit, released by Phaidon Press in 2010, a monograph on artist Robert Zandvliet, published by Nai publishers in 2012, and Panorama - Konstantin Grcic, published by Vitra Design Museum in 2014.
In 2013 she participated in the re-design of the Delegates’ Lounge of the United Nations Headquarters, as part of a Dutch team, which also consisted of Hella Jongerius, Rem Koolhaas, Irma Boom and Gabriel Lester. The team was commissioned by the Dutch government to create a vision on the re-design of this important space within the United Nations headquarters in New New York