Catherine de Zegher

Catherine de Zegher is a prominent international curator, and a modern and contemporary art critic and art historian. She has a degree in History of Art and Archaeology from the University of Ghent. After a career in Belgium as co-founder and director of the Kanaal Art Foundation (1988-1998), she became for many years (1999-2007) the executive director and the chief curator of The Drawing Center in New York and was a visiting curator at MoMA in the Drawing Department. From 2008-2009, she worked as director of exhibitions and publications at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, where she assisted in reinstalling the renovated building by Frank Gehry. She moved on to be the artistic director of all our relations, the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2012) and of More Light/Bolshe Seta, the 5th Moscow Biennale, Russia (2013). She curated the Australian Pavilion (Simryn Gill: Here art grows on trees) at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and the Belgian Pavilion (Thierry De Cordier) at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997. Before she retired de Zegher was for several years the Director of the MSK Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium) and in 2017 she received the Oscarla award for her role in the art world. Since 2014 de Zegher is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Her art projects often promote the feminine principle.