Koi Persyn

Koi Persyn is a curator based in Brussels. He obtained a master’s degree in Fine Arts (2019), followed by a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies (2020), both at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. During his education, Persyn founded and co-curated a three-year-running residency program at Het Paviljoen in Ghent. His curated projects focus on process-based, experimental, collective, and hybrid practices within open-air and/or site-sensitive exhibitions that often research the complexities of public space. 

Persyn participated in the exchange program with BIDAI college of arts in Kanazawa (JP, 2017) and worked as a mediator for the Belgian Pavilion at the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale in the framework of the Young Curators Program (2019). As a former member of the Young Friends of S.M.A.K., he co-curated Publiek Park, an extra muros group exhibition, public program, and publication that took place in the Citadel park of Ghent (2021). Together with Laila Melchior, Persyn won the Lichen Curatorial Prize 2021 (laureate selected by Jester (fka CIAP) and Curatorial Studies) and they carried out their exhibition proposal at CIAP Kunstverein in Genk (2022). He operates as the guest curator for Komplot (2021-...) in Brussels, works currently as a guest lecturer at École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre in Brussels and as a project coördinator of Cas-co, a residency and atelier organisation in Leuven. 

Captions:

IV - The Youth of S.F., exhibition view, Komplot x SB34 Clovis, photo by Chantal van Rijt

Madrigals, exhibition view, scenography for the opera performance by Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, photo by Marcel Lennartz

Three Tropes for Entropy, exhibition view, CIAP Kunstverein (Lichen Curatorial Prize with Laila Melchior), photo by Chantal van Rijt