Maud Salembier

Maud Salembier has a master's degree in art history, a master's degree in aesthetics and film philosophy and a DEA in cultural management. She worked for galleries and art centres (Iselp, BOZAR, Argos) as exhibition coordinator and managed an artist residency. She is currently a professor at ESA Saint-Luc Brussels, where she teaches art history, exhibition practice and art actuality, but also taught art actuality at ESAPV La Cambre from 2011 to 2015.

As an independent curator, she has curated solo exhibitions with artists such as Denicolai & Provoost, Cristina Garrido, Joao Freitas, and Valérian Goalec at the last Art Brussels fair. Her career is also marked by several group exhibitions with Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Edith Dekyndt, Sophie Whettnall, Michael Van den Abeele, Mira Sanders, Aline Bouvy and Benoît Platéus, among others, among the most well-known, but also emerging artists. Maud Salembier specialises in discovering young (or not so young) artists, and to that end she curated the Generation Brussels exhibition in September 2022 in the former printing office of the National Bank of Belgium.

Maud Salembier is a member of the AICA (ABCA/BVKC), a regular art critic for the magazine L'art même, but also wrote texts for several exhibition catalogues by Alice Anderson, Bernard Villers or Els Opsomer.

In February 2018, she founded LaSpore, a nomadic curatorial and editorial platform aiming to disseminate and support contemporary artistic creation. In this context, she published a monograph by Joao Freitas, a catalogue for the group exhibition Norma at Pilgrims House, and an artist book by Valérian Goalec, in collaboration with Theophile's Paper and MER. Paper Kunsthalle.