Esther Kokmeijer

Esther Kokmeijer, born in Dokkum, The Netherlands (1977), is an artist and explorer, currently residing in Rotterdam and working around the globe. From 1996 until 2001 she studied graphic design at Constantijn Huygens Academie, now the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and managed her own design studio for ten years. Since 2008 she works as an independent artist.

In 2013 she studied Arctic and Antarctic Science, a minor at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). Since 2013 she seasonally works as an expedition photographer and polar guide, sailing to the Arctic during the Arctic summer and to Antarctica during the Antarctic summer. She is the founder of Antarktikos, an anually print journal that is solely dedicated to Antarctica and brings together art and science. (www.antarktikos.com) From 2015 untill 2023 on she was a board member of Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) in The Netherlands and is organizing together with the NWO the annual Dutch Polar Symposium.

She is co founder of the Cosmic Water Foundation (CWF), which aims to raise general awareness through daring scientific and artistic projects on water and its eminent role on earth and in the cosmos. (cosmicwaterfoundation.com)

Her work has been exhibited and published worldwide, also she published multible books and publications of her own works. For various projects, she has visited 85 countries and participated in long term residency programmes in The Netherlands, Indonesia, South Korea, Greenland, Antarctica, Spitsbergen, Germany, France, Mongolia, and China.

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