Oxenaar is the daughter of
Rudi Oxenaar, former director of the
Kröller-Müller Museum, and Thil Oxenaar-van der Haagen (1931-1985). Her brother Aart Oxenaar (1958) is director of the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam. Oxenaar came into prominence in the late 1980s with the renovation of an old Amsterdam theater into an art center. In 1990 with her own office she managed an art exhibition in
Loevestein Castle with artists such as
Klaas Gubbels,
David van de Kop, Gabriëlle van de Laak and
Bořek Šípek. Another of her early adventures was the initiation of the Supper Club in Amsterdam in 1991. A year later in 1992 she managed to transform an old hospital in Gorkum into a temporary exhibition space. Later in the 1990s with the historian Otto Nan she developed a plan to renovate an old Lloyd office in Amsterdam into the
Lloyd Hotel, which was put into action. In 2004 the hotel opened their doors. In 2009 Oxenaar was awarded the
Benno Premsela Prize. == Publications ==