Follow-up peer-to-peer online meetings

Valerie Verhack

Function: Curator of contemporary art at M Leuven Country: Belgium Visiting period: 21 - 22 October Visiting year: 2021 Part of Follow-up peer-to-peer online meetings

Valerie Verhack has been curator of contemporary art at M Leuven since 2013 where she set up shows with artists like Thomas Demand, Ericka Beckman, Nel Aerts, Cécile B. Evans, Mary Reid Kelley and Oriol Vilanova.

Until 2019, Verhack was a member of Le Salon, an online platform about the Brussels contemporary arts scene that just recently published its anthology as a book. In 2011-2012, she coordinated the Vanhaerents Art Collection in Brussels. From an interest in both contemporary art and the historical avant-garde, she previously worked as a curator at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2009-2011). Artists that question their authorship (in the context of an exhibition about artists working whilst using another name/persona). The link between contemporary art and art form the past.