Valerie Verhack

Valerie Verhack has been curator of contemporary art at M Leuven since 2013 where she set up shows with artists like Thomas Demand, Ericka Beckman, Nel Aerts, Cécile B. Evans, Mary Reid Kelley and Oriol Vilanova. She is currently preparing an exhibition with Wael Shawky and a group show with artists operating under a different persona. Until 2019, Verhack was a member of Le Salon, an online platform about the Brussels contemporary arts scene that just recently published its anthology as a book. In 2011-2012, she coordinated the Vanhaerents Art Collection in Brussels. From an interest in both contemporary art and the historical avant-garde, she previously worked as a curator at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2009-2011). She is specifically interested in artists that question their authorship (in the context of an exhibition about artists working whilst using another name/persona) and the link between contemporary art and art form the past.