Hans Memling in Bruges

Anna Koopstra (b. 1980) previously worked at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The National Gallery in London. She also worked as a guest curator for Museum Helmond and as a researcher at the World Museum in Rotterdam, among other places. Koopstra studied art history at the University of Groningen, where she specialised in 15th-century painting in the Southern Netherlands and wrote a thesis on material research on the oeuvre of Jan van Eyck. She received her doctorate from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2016 with a dissertation on the early 16th-century artist Jean Bellegambe.