Sam Steverlynck

Sam Steverlynck is a Brussels-based art critic and curator. He has been writing for various Belgian and international publications, including De Standaard, Art Review, artpress, … From 2018 until 2021, he was editor-in-chief of HART magazine. In 2021, he was curator at the post-graduate training HISK. In 2022, he curated Zijn naam was Austerlitz/ Austerlitz was his name in A Tale of A Tub in Rotterdam with works from the Tlön collection (Béatrice Balcou, Pierre Bismuth, Pavel Büchler, Peggy Buth, Jason Dodge, Aurélien Froment, Simon Fujiwara, Sven Johne, Clare Noonan, Marzena Nowak, Mario Garcia Torres, Tris Vonna- Michell, …), L’Oeuvre et son Double at Art Brussels with a selection of artists whose work was on view at the 2022 Venice Biennale (Ignasi Aballi, Francis Alÿs, Mirella Bentivoglio, Mariana Castillo Deball, Latifa Echakhch, Jane Graverol, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Louise Lawler, Rosana Paulino, Solange Pessoa, Carol Rama, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra) and the solo exhibition The Constant Flow by Dani Ghercã for the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (MNAC). 
Together with Dome Wood, he co-founded The Agprognostic Temple, a nomadic art space focusing on art and the esoteric, for which he curated various solo exhibitions (Zebedee Armstrong, Nicolas Provost, Léonard Pongo) and group shows (James Lee Byars, Ricardo Brey, Sanam Khatibi, Laurie Charles, Joris Van de Moortel,…). In February 2023, he curated Visions from the Underworld with The Agprognostic Temple which kickstarted Eleusis2023, Cultural Capital of Europe (Danai Anesiadou, Shana Moulton, Kimsooja, Panos Tsagaris,…). For the exhibition diptych Poetics of Politics that takes simultaneously place at Harlan Levey Projects in Brussels and Art Encouters at Timisoara in June 2023, he unites the work of three Rumanian photographers who reflect on the transition from communism to capitalism by means of the medium of photography. In September 2023, he will curate the exhibition Generation Brussels during the Brussels Gallery Weekend. He currently works at the collection and research department of S.M.A.K in Ghent where he co-curated the exhibition Pieter Engels: Fabulous Oldest Hits together with Philippe Van Cauteren.