Laura Herman

Laura Herman is a curator and writer. She is the director of the postgraduate Curatorial Studies, a collaboration between KASK & Conservatory, S.M.A.K. and Ghent University. In late 2022, she won the Prize for Young Art Criticism with her text Waterige Wezens on the work of Camille Henrot. Between 2016 and 2020, Herman was curator at La Loge in Brussels, a space dedicated to art, architecture and theory where she curated, among others, 'Learning for Artemisia' by Uriel Orlow 'Palais de Justice' by Carey Young and 'Despina' by Zoë Paul. From 2017 to 2020, she was editor at De Witte Raaf and theory lecturer at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Between 2018 and 2020, she curated 'The New Sanctuary' the 12th satellite programme at Jeu de Paume (Paris), CAPC (Bordeaux) and the Museo Amparo de Puebla (Mexico). She is co-editor of Until We Meet Again (Marres & Z33, 2022),The Floor is Uneven. Does It Slope? (Mousse Publishing, 2019) and co-author of publications such as Learning by curating. Current trajectories in critical curatorial education (Vector Publications, 2023), Herewith the Clues (Sternberg Press, 2019) and Experience Traps (Motto Distribution, 2018). Herman's reviews and essays have appeared in Mousse, Frieze, Spike Art Quarterly, Metropolis M and nY, among others, and she (co-)curated exhibitions and programmes including 'Family Fictions' (Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, 2019), 'Natural Capital (Modal Alam)' (Bozar, Brussels, 2018), 'Definition Series: Infrastructure' (Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2016), 'Third Nature' for the Hessel Museum (New York, 2016), 'The Office for Doubts and Desires' (P!, New York, 2016) and 'Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams' (Marres, Maastricht, 2013). Between 2013 and 2015, Laura worked as assistant curator at Z33 House for Contemporary Art around art in public space. She is a board member of Auguste Orts, AICA and Outline. She holds an MA Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College New York (2016) and a Master's degree in comparative modern literature from Ghent University (2010).