Melanie Deboutte

Melanie Deboutte is Curator of the Roger Raveel Museum in Machelen-aan-de-Leie. After studying Art Science at the Universities of Leuven and Ghent, she explored the Belgian art world as a staff member at various museums, from S.M.A.K., Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens and Mu.ZEE to M Leuven, Z33 and M HKA. She has been working as an independent curator and researcher since 2013 and has organised several exhibitions, often with a particular focus on the development of contemporary art from the 1960s to the 1980s in Belgium. She also regularly writes reviews and essays for art magazines, collection and exhibition catalogues and artist publications. In 2019, she contributed to the start-up of the Centre for Art Archives Flanders (CKV) at the M HKA as a consultant on estates and archives.