Art Brussels

Marjolaine Lévy

Marjolaine Lévy holds a PhD in contemporary art history from the Université Paris-Sorbonne, is an art critic and teaches art history at the university. She is the author of numerous essays and exhibition catalogs, including Les Modernologues (Mamco, Geneva, 2017), edited the book “20 ans d’art en France” (Flammarion, 2018) and the first monograph on the Polish painter Jozef Halas (Skira, 2023).

She also curated the exhibitions “Histoires d’abstraction. Le cauchemar de Greenberg” at the Fondation Ricard (Paris) in 2021, ‘Léon Wuidar, une peinture à géométrie variable’ at the Bonisson Art Center, and the ‘Fausta Squatriti’ retrospective at the Kunsthaus Pasquart (Biel) in 2023. In 2024, she curated “La société des spectacles. Farah Atassi & Ulla von Brandenburg” at the Fondation Ricard, and the winner of the BMW Art Makers prize with artist Mustapha Azeroual. In 2025, she will curate the “Super Conceptual Pop” exhibition at the CAB Foundation (Brussels) and the Farah Atassi retrospective at the Picasso Museum in Malaga. ambitious projects. Joar Nango’s exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall was named the best exhibition of the year in Norway in 2020.

Tim Roerig

Tim Roerig (b. 1991, The Netherlands) is Senior Curator at Z33 and Artistic Coordinator of Art on the Meuse, a series of public art commissions by Z33 and Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland. He has curated several solo and group exhibitions at Z33, most recently Lucy McKenzie: Super Palace (2024) and Leaps of Faith (2024). Before joining Z33 in 2018, Tim worked at Haus der Kunst in Munich and La Biennale di Venezia. In 2023, he co-founded celador, a collective space for writing, reading, and speaking in Brussels. previously worked as an independent curator and art critic, organizing exhibitions in Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Germany. He regularly writes and teaches about contemporary art.

Axel Wieder

Axel Wieder has been the Director of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art since August 2024. From 2018 to 2024, he has been director of Bergen Kunsthall where he produced a widely acclaimed, interdisciplinary program with an international focus and local roots together with his team, which encompassed exhibitions, live projects, and a broad event and outreach program.

Previously, Wieder was the director of Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm (2014–2018) as well as Head of Programmes at Arnolfini in Bristol (2012–2014). He was responsible for the program of Ludlow 38 – Goethe Institute in New York from 2010 to 2011 after being responsible as artistic director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart from 2007 to 2010. In 1999, he founded Pro qm, a bookshop and discourse platform, together with Katja Reichard and Jesko Fezer in Berlin. Axel Wieder studied art history and cultural studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Cologne. He has held teaching appointments at various universities and art academies, and publishes in magazines and anthologies. In his work, Wieder focuses on the history and theory of exhibitions, architecture, and the social space as well as on questions of political representation. His activities successfully expanded the scope of work of art institutions towards becoming open spaces, in which art can be shown in its connection to adjacent areas of society and with attention to different practices and discourses. Under his leadership, programmes succeeded in attracting new audiences through collaborations and ambitious projects. Joar Nango’s exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall was named the best exhibition of the year in Norway in 2020.