Carine Fol

Since 2012, Carine Fol has been the artistic director of the CENTRALE for contemporary art in Brussels. The exhibitions and projects developed within it emphasise the relationship between art and society and offer several readings of contemporary creation.

She is a curator - in Belgium and abroad - and the author of several books on Outsider Art and contemporary art. Her curatorial practice has evolved in parallel with her scientific and empirical research on the "margins" of art.

She has worked in several Brussels institutions: for the alderman for culture of the City of Brussels: exhibitions in the Brigittines chapel; Goethe Institute Brussels, German coordination projects; Antwerp '93 European Capital of Culture project; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels: scientific secretariat for the Paul Delvaux and René Magritte exhibitions and writing of the biography of Magritte and an article on advertising.  She was responsible for the exhibitions at the Botanique and developed exhibitions dedicated to Jean Dubuffet, Henri Michaux, Art Brut, Gerard Malanga...

Another decisive element in her career was the participation and organisation of two projects with international artists:

-The Path of European Culture in the cities of Lodz, Berlin, Bratislava and Brussels with artists from each city (1991)

-Dialog organised as part of the Aspekte Sachsen Festival initiated by the Goethe Institute in Brussels, bringing together German and Belgian artists (1994)

In 2000, she became the director of Art en Marge, an association founded in 1986 and dedicated to the research and presentation of outsider artists. At the same time, she decided to deepen her research on the margins and on creators considered as "outsiders" and started her research for a PhD in Art History (2011/ULB).

From the moment she took up her position at Art en Marge, she created bridges with the official art world and, from 2002 onwards, she organised several projects that offered a new reading of outsider art. Several thematic exhibitions within the official art circuit pursue the same approach (Identities 1 and TOO Geel 2007 and 2009, Centre Historique Minier, Lewarde, Loss of Control, Marta Herford, 2008 and Musée Rops, 2013, the 20 + 20 project, organised on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Art en Marge, was the most ambitious. 20 directors and curators of Belgian contemporary art museums agreed to present a work from the Art en Marge collection in dialogue with a work from their museum).

Her collaborations with Jan Hoet (2008) and Harald Szeemann (BOZAR, 2005) are noteworthy.