Zippora Elders Tahalele is the General and Artistic Director of the Dutch Photo Museum in Rotterdam, as well as a curator, writer, and art historian. Previously, she served as Senior Curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Head of the Curatorial Department & Outreach at Gropius Bau in Berlin, Co-Curator of Sonsbeek20–24, Director of Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, and Curator at Foam. She also serves on the boards or supervisory boards of several cultural organizations and has advised various arts and cultural funding bodies.

As the daughter of a Moluccan father and a Sumatran-Dutch mother, Zippora has written a number of essays that draw on her family’s history. In these writings, she connects issues within the cultural sector to broader geopolitical themes and overlooked or neglected aspects of history.