Laura Herman

Function: Curator at La Loge, Brussels Country: Belgium Visiting period: 08 - 11 February Visiting year: 2018

Laura Herman (b.1988, Brussels) is a curator and writer whose work focuses on spatial infrastructure, organisational models, and affective architectures. She currently serves as a curator of public programmes at La Loge, a Brussels-based space dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and theory, and she is editor at De Witte Raaf. In 2016, Laura graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York, and she holds a master’s degree in Comparative Modern Literature (Ghent University, 2010). Her reviews and essays have appeared in Frieze, Mousse, Spike Art Quarterly, Metropolis M, Bomb, De Witte Raaf, and elsewhere, and she has (co-)curated exhibitions and events including ‘Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams‘ at Marres (Maastricht, 2013), ‘Definition Series: Infrastructure’ at the Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, 2016), ‘Third Nature’ at the Hessel Museum (New York, 2016), and ‘Natural Capital (Modal Alam)’ in the framework of the Europalia Curator’s Award at BOZAR, (Brussels, 2017). She is currently developing ‘The Family Trap’, an exhibition that will open at Extra City Kunsthal in 2019.