LEONOR FABER-JONKER (1987) is an historian, author, artist, and curator. She studied modern history at the University of Utrecht and is PhD candidate at Leiden University.

She is fascinated by memory and works with (personal) archives, historical objects, and photographs, especially those connected to colonial history and punk & the counterculture of the 1980s. Through micro histories and personal stories, she unlocks lesser-known chapters of 20th-century history.

Leonor is the author of No Future Nu (Lebowski, 2012) and author/editor of the photo book Bettie Ringma en Marc H. Miller – Selling Polaroids in the Bars of Amsterdam, 1980 (Lecturis, 2023). She was the scientific curator of the first European exhibition on the Namibian genocide, at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris (2016-2017). In 2018, she published the academic book More Than Just an Object, on the skulls of victims of this genocide. In 2021, she was awarded a fellowship at the Research Center for Material Culture. She published in VPRO-Gids, literary magazine Extaze, Metropolis M, Gonzo (circus), and Tubelight.

✂ With her collages and installations, Leonor explores the layers of meaning of objects and archival image material. She presented her work at De Aanschouw, HOK Gallery, Neurotitan (Berlin), and the Art Workers’ Guild (London).

Leonor lives and works in Rotterdam.