Carine Zaayman

Dr. Carine Zaayman is Researcher and Research Coordinatorat the Research Center for Material Culture at the Wereldmuseum (Netherlands). She is the author of Seeing What Is Not There: Figuring the Anarchive (2026). As an artist, curator and scholar, she is committed to critical engagement with colonial archives and collections, specifically those holding strands of Khoekhoe pasts. Her work focuses on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism, particularly in the Cape, by bringing intangible and neglected histories into view. Her research aims to contribute to a radical reconsideration of colonial archives and museum collections, especially by assisting in finding ways to release their hold over our imaginations when we narrate the past, as well as how we might shape futures from it.