Sepp Eckenhaussen

Sepp Eckenhaussen (1993) is an arts researcher and organizer. His work focuses on visual art, digital culture, activism, policy, and new economies. Sepp works at the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), where he runs the research program Our Creative Reset, and at Caradt, where he researches possible pathways towards economic sustainability in the arts, focusing on existing best practices around commons, cooperatives, basic income, and infrastructural critique as prefigurations of a sustainable art economy.

From 2020 until 2023, he was the co-director of Platform Beeldende Kunst, an activist think-tank that represents the interest of independent art workers and takes action for better art policy in The Netherlands. At the INC, Sepp has published the monograph Scenes of Independence: Cultural Ruptures in Zagreb (1991-2019) and the anthology De bevrijding van het mecenaat. He holds an rMA in Art Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Sepp writes op eds for Dutch newspapers and articles for various periodicals, including Boekman, Mister Motley, and Amsterdam Alternative. (2024)