Leana Boven (b. 1993, Paramaribo) is a curator, program maker, writer, and researcher with a background in gender and postcolonial theory (Utrecht University). Her work centers on counterculture, diasporic connectedness and the feeling of belonging, spatial justice, ecology and decolonial climate justice, and collective care.

Leana curated her first exhibition, On Collective Care & Togetherness, at MAMA in Rotterdam in 2020, and has since organized multiple exhibitions and programs. She was co-curator of the SALWA Gatherings in collaboration with the SALWA Foundation (2022), and took part in the Springboard Art Fair (2023) as a coach/curator. She also worked as a curator at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons.

Currently, she works as a curator and project leader at Stroom Den Haag, where she curated the exhibitions Positions: Soft Intimacies (2024) and the upcoming Beloved Waters (2025). She is also a curator at Gemaal op Zuid in Rotterdam, where, together with Yusser al Obaidi, she organized the exhibition series Spiritual Disobedience (2025) and Love, Labour, Liberate (2024). Leana has taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy in the Social Practice department and is currently a tutor in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. In addition to her teaching, Leana regularly writes for platforms such as Metropolis M and Mister Motley. She also serves as an advisor to the Mondriaan Fund and the Municipality of Rotterdam (Visual Arts), and is a board member at No Limits! Art Castle.