Evelyn Simons

Evelyn Simons is a curator and writer based in Brussels. Her activities centre around social practice and the mediation of contemporary art in public space. Since 2019, she runs the visual arts and performance programming at Horst Arts & Music. In addition, she is launching a new centre for contemporary art in the rural periphery of Brussels, Ter Rijst with Isabel Van Bos.

Evelyn Simons programmes the artists-in-residence for Fondation CAB Brussels and Saint-Paul-de-Vence, and occasionally curates for Ballon Rouge Collective. As a laureate of Curate Award, Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums in 2014, she curated Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents (2017) Athens, of which The Never Never with Jeremy Hutchison forms the second chapter. In 2016 she was curator-in-residence at the Beirut Art Residency (LB), and in 2021 at Villa Lena, Tuscany (IT).

Evelyn Simons has a Masters in Art History from Ghent University, and a Postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies from KASK Ghent.