Jana Johanna Haeckel

Jana Johanna Haeckel is a Brussels based art historian and curator. She is specialized in the field of lens-based media and interdisciplinary art practices and has worked through topics of intersectionality and media specificity for many years. Since december 2021 she serves as director of Photoforum Pasquart in Switzerland where she has curated solo exhibitions with Bianca Baldi, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Sheida Soleimani, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Salvatore Vitale, and more. Other curated exhibitions involve the group exhibitions "Resistant Faces" at Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, 2021),  "Everything Passes Except the Past' at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turn 2020), accompanied by a publication with Sternberg Press (2021), the solo exhibition "Knows to feel, the smell of rain..." with Julien Creuzet at Drdova Gallery (Prague 2018) and "Performing the Border" at kunstraum Niederoesterreich (Vienna 2017).

Jana Johanna Haeckel is associate researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Centre (KU Leuven/UC Louvain), where she was a doctoral researcher (2012-2016), and served as project manager and curator for the Goethe-Institut Brussels (2017-2021), guest curator at Pinakothek der Moderne Munich (2020-21), curatorial assistant at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2012) and art mediator at Boros Collection Berlin (2009-2012).

She holds a PhD in art history by Université Catholique de Louvain, a post-graduate degree in curatorial studies and a M.A. in art history, comparative literature and Romance Languages by Humboldt Universität Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.