Ischa Havens

Ischa Havens has been working as a museum educator, art mediator and dance/theater-maker since thirteen years.

He has worked with different audiences in museums for both contemporary art and heritage, as well as a dance/theatre maker in community art projects and performances with both professional and amateur performers.

He is currently working as Senior of Education and Public Programmes at De Pont Museum for contemporary art.

Ischa Havens will be speaking at the Museums & Public Programs Summit 2025 :

PUNCH – A Layered Experience

During PUNCH – our monthly museum take-over – we invite cultural partners to curate a programme that reflects directly on the main, temporary exhibition.

The explicit commission to create an in-depth programme works both ways: our ‘regular visitors’ are invited to look at the exhibition from a different perspective, while we invite a new audience to visit the museum, often for the first time.

By really challenging the partners to dive deep into the themes the main artist draws from, the societal issues addressed in our public programme never feel ‘forced’, but follow directly and organically from our artistic programme.