Pelumi Adejumo

Pelumi Adejumo is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She studied Creative Writing at ArtEZ and obtained her Master of Fine Art degree from the Dutch Art Institute. In 2023, she received the Frans Vogel Poetry Prize for her multilingual work, and in 2020 she was selected by NRC as one of the most promising artists in the Low Countries. 

Her practice explores the relationships between multilingualism, the body, mythology, and collective memory, often through sound, performance, and poetry. 

She was the translator of the multimedia performance Minor Music at the End of the World, written by Saidiya Hartman and directed by Sarah Benson, which premiered in 2025 at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, commissioned by the Hartwig Art Foundation. In 2025/2026, she was one of the residents in the MacDowell Fellowship in New Hampshire. 

Adejumo publishes and performs both nationally and internationally. Her work has appeared in, among others, De Gids, De Groene Amsterdammer, Point de Chute, Furious Flower IV, Museum Arnhem, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, A Tale of A Tub, and Savvy Contemporary. She has also worked as a thesis supervisor in the Sandberg Master BlackerBlackness Studies and is active as a programmer and translator for the international literature festival Read My World in Amsterdam. 

On March 2026 she signed for her debut poetry collection with publishing houses Chaos and Das Mag in Amsterdam.