Over the past fifteen years, I've been active as a freelance curator, with a focus on education, artistic research and alternative modes of knowledge production. A selective overview of recent projects can be found below.
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Remarks on Colour
Remarks on Colour
24.04 - 11.05.2025
Taking its name from Wittgenstein's 1950 collection of writings, Remarks on Colour brings together the work of artists who engage with colour from a conceptual, speculative, performative, or archival approach. How does color operate beyond the purely visual? What is its relationship to language, and how is it still shaped by cultural, aesthetic, and intellectual biases? How does it function as a sign, and what symbolic meanings does it carry? Through the work of contemporary artists, this exhibition explores the shifting significance of color and its complex place in art, philosophy, and everyday life. An extensive program of public activities invites visitors to explore the prismatic phenomenon of color further.
Participating artists:
Josef Bauer, David Batchelor, Christine Demias, Nicole Hassler, LAb[au], Emanuele Marcuccio, Katja Mater, Wesley Meuris, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Ioana Nemeș, Richard Sides
Location: KBK, Boulevard d'Ypres 20, 1000 Brussels (BE)
Ado Hamelryck: Nothing Really Ends
Ado Hamelryck: Nothing Really Ends
14.03 - 14.05.2025
For nearly five decades, Ado Hamelryck (1941-2024) devoted himself to creating an oeuvre that surpasses the artist in its meditative and timeless aura. Driven by a relentless pursuit of visual purity and an exploration of black as color, Hamelryck approached monotony and repetition with patient dedication and poetic sensibility. This solo exhibition, featuring a careful selection of his work, honors Hamelryck’s extraordinary artistic legacy, which spans multiple media, dimensions, and techniques.
Location: Uitstalling Gallery, Marcel Habetslaan 26, 3600 Genk (BE)
Behind the Blinds
Behind the Blinds
11.01.2025
Behind the Blinds was a three-part series of intimate conversations offering a behind-the-scenes look at the institute, academy, art market, and artistic practice. In each culinary tête-à-tête of one hour, two art professionals were sharing what drives and inspires them, while the audience gained a rare glimpse into their thoughts, experiences, and creative lives.
Developed in close collaboration with Casper Engels and Sam Van Paesschen, as part of the masterclass Curating the Campus at PXL-MAD School of Arts.
Location: SecondRoom, Marialei 33, Antwerp (BE)
Agents of Concern: Images and Empathy
Agents of Concern: Images and Empathy
Exhibition: 16.11 - 15.12.2023
Conference: 16.11.2023
Co-curated with visual artist and researcher Toon Leën.
How are images used to raise concerns? Why do certain images concern us more than others? And when does the image itself become a cause for concern? The conference and exhibition project Agents of Concern: Images and Empathy brings together an international group of artists and scholars to examine the complex ways in which images affect our emotional and cognitive understanding of the experiences and mental states of others.
Participating artists: Harun Farocki, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Jill Godmilow, Florian Göttke, Jelena Jureša, Tõnis Jürgens, Rabih Mroué, Goda Palekaitė, Frank Theys, and Joeri Verbesselt, Miglė Bareikytė & Natasha Klimenko, Ana Bilbao & Emilie Flower, Reel Borders, Ira A. Goryainova, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, and Dámaso Randulfe.
Conference: Christina Varvia / Forensic Architecture (keynote), Paul Bernard-Nouraud, Filip Berte & Cliona Harmey, Birgit Eusterschulte, Ira Goryainova, Claire Jones, Kasper Lægring, Antigoni Memou, Bart Moens & Karel Vanhaesebrouck, Paula Muhr, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, Dámaso Randulfe, Amir Saifullin, James Swensen, Stella Viljoen, and Andrew Warstat.
Location: KRIEG? / PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt (BE)
The Seduction of the Bureaucrat
The Seduction of the Bureaucrat
15.03 - 04.06.2023
An exhibition and public program about the (unlikely) relationship between art and bureaucracy
Participating artists: Apparatus 22, Jan Banning, Deborah Bowmann, AA Bronson, Tiago Duarte, Anna Bella Geiger, Sarah Hendrickx, LAb[au], Ariane Loze, Wesley Meuris, Vijai Patchineelam, Lieven Segers, Pilvi Takala, The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Axel van der Kraan, Herman Van Ingelgem, Philippe Van Wolputte, Vermeir & Heiremans
Location: Kunsthal Mechelen (formerly De Garage) (BE)
It's Hard Being a Character in Someone Else's Novel
It's Hard Being a Character in Someone Else's Novel
15.03 - 04.06.2023
Exhibition and public program by The Book Lovers (David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska)
Why do artists write novels? What impact does the artist’s novel have on the visual arts? How should such a novel be experienced? Visual artists such as Salvador Dalí, Leonora Carrington, Carl Andre, and Andy Warhol have written novels since the 20th century. But the artist’s novel is something else: in recent years, there has been a proliferation of visual artists who create novels as part of their broader art practice. They do so in order to address artistic issues by means of novelistic devices, favouring a sort of art predicated on process and subjectivity, introducing notions such as fiction, narrative, and imagination. In this sense, it is possible to see the artist’s novel as a new medium in the visual arts, as is the case of video or performance, for example. Yet very little is known about it.
Location: KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE)
Assaf Gruber: The World is Round and People Meet in the Corners
Assaf Gruber: The World is Round and People Meet in the Corners
05.05 - 06.06.2022
The World is Round and People Meet in the Corners is a result of Assaf Gruber’s ongoing investigation of how politics intersect with art and its institutions. It reveals the human stories and shifting ideological values at the “back-end” of cultural institutions. His exhibition at KRIEG? will consist of the video installation Transient Witness, a sculpture and a series of photographs. The ensemble of works confronts art museums with their future role in society through their metamorphosing present and unexpected past.
Location: KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE)
Tell Me Louder
Tell Me Louder
04 - 06.03.2022
Group show by graduate students from ENSAV La Cambre with the support of HISK and KANAL - Centre Pompidou, co-curated with Marion Adrian
Participating artists: Francesco Agnelli, Francesco Battistello, Mathieu Cappiau, Robinson Catelin, Anatole De Benedictis, Thomas Gibout, Romane Iskaria, Hannah Kircher, Maud Langlais, Laure Lhoas, Octave Ly, Ara Méndez Murillo, Eunji Oh, Camille Poitevin, Kamand Razavi, Alba Suau.
Location: HISK - Gosset site, Brussels (BE)
The HISK Affair
The HISK Affair
24.06 - 18.07.2021
Exhibition with first- and second-year candidate laureates at HISK (Higher Institute of Fine Arts), co-curated with Sam Steverlynck
Participating artists: Dries Boutsen, Nelleke Cloosterman, Wim De Pauw, Ian De Weerdt, Manu Engelen, Dani Ghercă, Antoine Goossens, Olivia Hernaïz, Karel Koplimets, Nokukhanya Langa, Gaëlle Leenhardt, Zhixin Liao, Linda Jasmin Mayer, Sandrine Morgante, Felipe Muhr, Hadassa Ngamba, Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant, Elisa Pinto, Juan Pablo Plazas, Stephanie Rizaj, Paulius Šliaupa, Pei-Hsuan Wang
Location: HISK - Gosset site, Brussels (BE)
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Launched in 2021
Online platform for candidate-laureates at HISK (Higher Institute of Fine Arts), co-curated with Sam Steverlynck
Participating artists: Dries Boutsen, Nelleke Cloosterman, Wim De Pauw, Ian De Weerdt, Manu Engelen, Dani Ghercă, Antoine Goossens, Aziz Harara, Olivia Hernaïz, Karel Koplimets, Nokukhanya Langa, Gaëlle Leenhardt, Zhixin Liao, Linda Jasmin Mayer, Sandrine Morgante, Felipe Muhr, Hadassa Ngamba, Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant, Elisa Pinto, Juan Pablo Plazas, Stephanie Rizaj, Paulius Šliaupa, Pei-Hsuan Wang
https://bestoftimes.hisk.edu/
Wesley Meuris: Probes
Wesley Meuris: Probes
18.11 — 23.12.2021
In his solo project Probes, Wesley Meuris casts a new glance at the current human condition and the multifaceted ways in which our daily lives are constantly being mediated by machines. Our perception of space has become increasingly technology-driven through the use of ingenious devices such as satellites, drones and robotic vehicles. Devices that testify to the human ingenuity, but that also put our place in the universe into perspective. Meuris’ abstract sculptures or architectural objects are visual echoes of the countless satellites that drift around in space, busily surveying planet Earth. It is clear that, apart from gaining scientific knowledge, there are also military-industrial, political and economic motives at play.
Location: KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE)
Ryan Gander: The Annotated Reader
Ryan Gander: The Annotated Reader
18.11 — 23.12.2021
The Annotated Reader is a publication-as-exhibition and exhibition-as-publication conceived by Ryan Gander and Jonathan P. Watts. It features almost 300 creative personalities’ responses and handwritten annotations on a chosen piece of writing. A range of people have been invited, encompassing contemporary artists, designers, writers, institutional founders, musicians and more – to imagine they’ve missed the last train. With contributions by, among others, Marina Abramović, Saâdane Afif, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Monk, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Antony Gormley, Bob&Roberta Smith and Rosemarie Trockel.
Location: KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE)
Pilvi Takala: Sweat Equity
Pilvi Takala: Sweat Equity
02.02 — 18.03.2021
'Sweat Equity' is a term taken from startup culture that refers to the practice of giving shares to employees or contractors in exchange for labour. The show consists of two video pieces by Pilvi Takala. The Stroker (2018) has become eerily relevant in the face of a global pandemic, challenging our perception of boundaries and private/public space. If your heart wants it (remix) (2020) is a new video work that was made during Takala's residence at Aalto Business School and is co-produced by KRIEG?
Sweat Equity also includes a commissioned text by curator and writer Victoria Ivanova.
Location: KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE)
Julien Meert: Screensavers
Julien Meert: Screensavers
05.03 — 24.04.2020
In this new commission, artist Julien Meert introduced movement into his images, through both digital and analogue animation. This is his debut with the moving image, and you can see him (literally) breaking a sweat for it. In several videos, the artist a.k.a. the protagonist is engaging in monotonous physical activities, setting the rhythm for the silent choreography of the video. Meert deploys repetition as a strategy that allows him to de-dramatise actions and turn them into patterns, looping idly in the background. Each scene is set in a different eccentric environment, combining the aesthetics of a synth-pop music video or an old-school video game with elements native to Art Deco architecture that Brussels takes pride in. Brimming with elaborate and at times absurd details – all of which have been crafted manually – Screensavers presents a humorous and witty take on the artist’s plight.
With a commissioned text by writer and curator Alicja Melzacka.
Location: KRIEG? university gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE)
From 2019 to 2024, I acted as the artistic director of KRIEG?, a university gallery founded in 2016 and affiliated to PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt, BE), offering a public-oriented and autonomous artistic program. KRIEG? places artists at the center, and seeks to foster experimental connections between presentation, education and research. Recent solo projects include Julien Meert, Pilvi Takala, Wesley Meuris, Ryan Gander, Grace Ndiritu, Assaf Gruber and The Book Lovers.
BORG biennial 2016
BORG biennial 2016
02.09 - 11.09.2016
For its second edition, BORG decided to challenge its identity as a biennial event for contemporary art in Borgerhout, a district of Antwerp with a growing number of art galleries and project spaces, as well as different socioeconomic groups and minorities. Can an art biennial be embedded in such a local context without contradiction? Can BORG criticise gentrification processes without being hypocritical?
In addition to its central exhibition, BORG 2016 featured an extensive program of events. The first weekend focused on the exhibitions and side spaces, with Open Studios on Sunday. The second weekend offered a program of performances combined with lectures and a panel discussion.
Location: different venues across the city
Canned Laughter: Humor in Crisis
Canned Laughter: Humor in Crisis
01.11 - 08.11.2015 (Rotterdam) / Dec 2015 - Jan 2016 (Antwerp)
Canned Laughter was an experimental, interdisciplinary project that explored humor in times of crisis, involving performers and visual artists. Humor that does not immediately make you roar with laughter, but rather shows itself from a critical or uncomfortable perspective. Irony, sarcasm, and cynicism are the most obvious examples. Humor can be as dark as the times it criticizes. Indeed, much humor is fueled by fear. As Bertolt Brecht once remarked, "He who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news." Even in times of crisis, when there seems to be little reason to laugh, humor is perhaps more necessary than ever.
Participating artists: Marijke de Roover, Frank & Robbert, Robbert & Frank, Gorilla, Jeroen Jongeleen, Gyz la Rivière, William Ludwig Lutgens, Niels Post, Lieven Segers, Metahaven, Yuri Veerman, Steye Felix, Joost Halbertsma & CMMC
Location: Verhalenhuis Belvédère, Rotterdam / De Groene Waterman, Antwerp
Giuseppe Stampone: Emigration Made Pavilion
Giuseppe Stampone: Emigration Made Pavilion
10.04 - 05.06.2015
Giuseppe Stampone’s project, “Emigration Made Pavilion 148,” began with the idea of hospitality and the complex issue of the “stranger” or “foreigner.” The works on display, ranging from drawings to sculptures, explore the concept of sociopolitical borders and the various forms of control associated with them.
This solo show was planned to coincide with Expo Milano 2015, the world’s fair entirely dictated by nation-states and their corporate allies. Stampone’s conceptual project is conceived as an imaginary 148th pavilion to be added to the fair. It tackles the issue of migration in a cynical, yet playful and poetic way by relating it to various means of transport, such as trains, ships, and trucks, which are turned into remote-controlled vehicles within the gallery space. Additionally, several Bic pen drawings mock the idea of protectionist merchandising labels.
Location: Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani, Milan (IT)
BORG biennial 2014
BORG biennial 2014
19.09 - 05.10.2014
The BORG Biennale 2014 was a multidisciplinary arts festival held in Borgerhout, Antwerp. It showcased contemporary group exhibitions in unconventional venues, as well as satellite locations, art interventions in public spaces, open studios and galleries. Each of the main exhibition venues, including a deconsecrated church, a disused 1960s office block, and a former post office, was assigned to a curatorial duo. The curators were selected through an open call, and the artists were chosen from those proposed by the curators.
Location: different venues across the city
Currents #1: Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams
Currents #1: Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams
18.12.2013 - 04.01.2014
For Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams, curators Laura Herman and Pieter Vermeulen selected artists that offer new perspectives on current forms of authorship, subjectivity, knowledge and artistic research. The participating artists challenge the boundaries of artistic freedom and explore the value of art today. Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams was the first edition of a new, annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists a platform outside of the educational context, Marres Currents also aims to build an international infrastructure for art academies and institutions.
Participating artists: Fabian Altenried, Nima Bahremand, Lou Benesch, John Bijnens, Christophe Clarijs, Rens Cools, Lisa Decavel, Sven Dehens, Kipras Dubauskas, Sibe Duijsters, Daan Gielis, Laetitia Jeurissen, Ekaterina Kaplunova, Jóhanna Kristbjörg, Saori Kuno, Astrid Mingels, Juan Pablo Plazas, Sanne Vaassen, Jelena Vanoverbeek, Charles-Henri Sommelette and others.
Location: Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (NL)
The Ship of Fools
The Ship of Fools
2014 (online project), co-curated with Christophe Clarijs
Conceived as an accumulative, chronological patchwork, The Ship of Fools proposes to trace its meandering course, from on-shore and off-shore, oscillating between the physical and the digital, utopianism and dystopianism, between sanity and insanity, and search for its critical resonances today. Connecting counterculture and cyberculture, The Ship of Fools will present a collection of time documents illustrating our alternating and often troubled relationship with technology.
Location: Museum of Post-Digital Cultures (CH)
Perpetual Travellers
Perpetual Travellers
29.09 - 22.10.2013
Participating artists: Juan Duque, Assaf Gruber, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Meggy Rustamova, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Philippe Van Wolputte
Artistic direction: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Elena Agudio
Presenting a constellation of contemporary artists as temporary travelling companions, this exhibition thematizes the current state of constant mental and physical displacement, the condition of transcendence of media and horizons. Detached from their geographical roots, the artists (or their virtual surrogates) appear as perpetual travellers, as residents of incessantly alternating places and modes. Both their personal life and their works created along the way are mostly situation-based and delicately combine precarity and autonomy.
Location: SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (DE)
Juan Duque. Finger tracing the skyline of Asia, standing in Europe, Istanbul 2013 (video still)
02.09 - 28.10.2012
Participating artists: Stijn Cole, Hans Demeulenaere, Wesley Meuris, Honoré d'O
Four artists developed new commissions based on the concept of "façade": Stijn Cole, Hans Demeulenaere, Honoré d'O, and Wesley Meuris. Their work produced many variations on the same theme from architectural, sculptural, graphic, and psycho-sociological perspectives. In this collaborative project, each artist acted as curator of another artist's contribution. This subtle accentuating of hierarchical confusion, or "strange loop," continued throughout the exhibition.
Curator Pieter Vermeulen wrote a text that served as a ‘script’ for the exhibition.
'Façades' was part of a collaborative project between the Center for Visual Arts, Design, and Architecture Zeeland in Middelburg (NL), Netwerk / Center for Contemporary Art in Aalst (BE), and Be-Part / Platform for Contemporary Art in Waregem (BE).
Location: Be-Part / Platform for Contemporary Art in Waregem (BE)
Poppositions
Poppositions
2012 - 2020
Founding board member (together with Liv Vaisberg and Edouard Meier)
Poppositions was an annual alternative art fair based in Brussels, founded in 2012 as a nonprofit organization (vzw/asbl). Designed as a critical counterpart to mainstream fairs like Art Brussels, it presented site-specific, in situ exhibitions by emerging galleries, artist-run initiatives, and project spaces in shifting, often historically significant venues across the city
Uncommonplaces
Uncommonplaces
18.11.2011 - 15.01.2012
Participating artists: Elena Bajo, Lode Geens, Filip Gilissen, David Maroto, Warren Neidich, Jurgen Ots, Ariel Schlesinger, Naama Tsabar
The group exhibition Uncommonplaces opened up a dialectical space between the artistic and the everyday, originality and banality, and the object and the abject. The commonplace refers to a dimension of our reality that we often overlook or neglect. Adding the prefix "un-" raises the question of whether we can imagine an alternative, experimental version of the everyday.
Location: Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
Resonance
Resonance
19 - 24.09.2010
Participating artists: CREW, Hans Op De Beeck, Anouk De Clercq, Hu Jieming, Martines Go Home, Kris Verdonck, Aajiao Xu, Yin Yi
Co-curated with Christophe De Jaeger, Art Yan and Magda Danysz
Resonance transformed the exhibition into a communicative space, a "force field" in which installations by Chinese and Belgian artists create an enchanting atmosphere. A series of corridors and curtains between the works sculpt the space.
The exhibition Resonance was organized by Brussels-Capital Region, represented by Minister of External Relations, Mr Jean-Luc Vanraes in the context of the Brussels Week at World Expo Shanghai 2010.
Location: 18 Gallery / Belgian Pavilion, World Expo Shanghai, Shanghai (CN), 19 - 24 September 2010
Fantastic Illusions (Kortrijk)
Fantastic Illusions (Kortrijk)
14.11.2009 - 07.02.2010
Participating artists: Anouk De Clercq, Bart Stolle, CREW, Hans Op de Beeck, Heidi Voet, Nick Ervinck, Olivier Deprez, Tale of Tales, Vadim Vosters, Yves Bernard & Yannick Antoine, Jenova Chen, Hu Jieming, Teddy Lo, Peng Yun, Wu Juehui, Aaajiao Xu (Xu Wenkai)
Co-curated with Christophe De Jaeger & Art Yan
In the exhibition Fantastic Illusions seven Belgian and seven Chinese artists build illusory spaces for the visitor. A continual interaction between the space of the artist and that of the spectator is the recurring theme of the exhibition. The artists work with various media such as painting, video art and computer installations.
Part of Europalia.China, in collaboration with Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai (BE)
Location: Broelmuseum / BUDA Arts Centre, Kortrijk
Fantastic Illusions (Shanghai)
Fantastic Illusions (Shanghai)
13.09 - 11.10.2009
Participating artists: Jenova Chen, David Claerbout, Hans Op De Beeck, Anouk De Clercq, Nick Ervinck, Hu Jieming, Teddy Lo, Peng Yun, Bart Stolle, Tale of Tales, Heidi Voet, Wu Juehui, Aaajiao Xu
Co-curated with Christophe De Jaeger & Art Yan
In the exhibition Fantastic Illusions seven Belgian and seven Chinese artists build illusory spaces for the visitor. A continual interaction between the space of the artist and that of the spectator is the recurring theme of the exhibition. The artists work with various media such as painting, video art and computer installations.
Part of the 3rd Shanghai eARTS Festival, in collaboration with Broelmuseum & BUDA Arts Centre, Kortrijk (BE)
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai (CN)
Blind Date. Sound & Vision in Private
Blind Date. Sound & Vision in Private
Nov - Dec 2008
Participating artists: Pieter Geenen, Ben Kruisdijk, Conny Kuilboer , Arno Roncada, Weyers & Borms, Nathalie Hunter, Kristin Rogghe, Sara Bomans, Frederik De Wilde, Michael Bonne
In contemporary art, sensuous experiences largely depend on sight and sound. But what happens when these senses fail? Can art be translated for people with visual or auditory impairments? How would their experience differ? What about the role of the sense of touch in art? Ten artists are ready to take on this interesting challenge. They will invite visitors to a blind date: an unexpected confrontation with the "other." Through their diverse works, the artists are willing to take a leap of faith, bringing the public into the margins of art.
Location: Actionfields Gallery (Brussels) / Sportimonium (Hofstade)
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