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)
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/
KRIEG?
KRIEG?
Since 2019, I'm acting 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.
More past projects will be added soon.
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