Ayunda Stel (2000) is a curator with a specific interest in visual arts, heritage, and film. In February 2024, she started as an assistant curator at HMK Hotel Maria Kapel, where she supports artists during their residencies. Within HMK, she further developed her curatorial practice, and since 2025 she has held the position of junior curator. In this role, she is responsible for the curatorial program within the chapel and initiated the first decolonial Indonesia–Netherlands commemoration in Hoorn, which is growing into an annual event.

Ayunda collaborates with various cultural institutions, including the Reinwardt Academie, where she curated four Erfgoedarena´s: an evening program in which urgent and current heritage themes are discussed and critically examined. In 2025, she served as an external expert at Academie Minerva in Groningen. Together with her partner, Maxim de Heer, she is also working on the documentary Salted, a short film that explores how emotions are experienced through the tastes of food, told by migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

Ayunda holds a master’s degree in Creative Producing from the Amsterdam University of the Arts and a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage from the Reinwardt Academie. Her practice focuses on uncovering and sharing unwritten stories carried by artists, and on exploring how these narratives can be made accessible to a broad audience through exhibitions, residencies, and collaborative projects.