Art history courses and lectures
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The benefit of art is widely proven. From the earliest cave paintings onwards humans have felt the need to express themselves through visual storytelling which has lead to an intriguing history.
Apart from being an international curator and art critic, I am also a certified art historian with an MA from Leiden University with a focus on art from the 1850s onwards and a PhD from the University of Plymouth with my thesis on Laughter, inframince and cybernetics with a connection to art and care.
I have taught art history for over 35 years at schools of Higher Education in Belgium, France and the UK, and for associations and privately, I can offer you a wide range of subjects to choose from.
Discover modern and contemporary in my teaching from a worldwide perspective and learn about art history in online or on-site courses and lectures. Apart from a general course on modern and contemporary art from 1850 onwards, you can also choose from the subject matters below or suggest a subject either as a course or a one-off lecture.
I teach in English, French and Dutch.
Learn more about pricing and modalities via the contact form.
Subjects:
Art & the Anthropocene – the anthropocene or manmade era has engendered a specific artistic response which could be described as ecological art. We discuss its history via theorists such as Vinciane Despret (Habiter en oiseau), Donna Haraway (Staying with the Trouble), Bruno Latour and Anna Tsing (Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, The Mushroom at the End of the World).
Fumism, Dada, Surrealism and its influence – course on the history from pre-dadaism via surrealism to the influence of these movements on contemporary art.
Women in Art – course or lecture on a wide range of female modern and contemporary artists such as Hannah Höch, Sophie Tauber, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Pipilotti Rist, Otobong Nkanga or Lubaina Himid.
Art and curating – a course on the origins of curating and its contemporary history. This course can be combined with a workshop on curating.
Biennial of Venice – its history and the edition of 2026: the Biennial of Venice was the first to start this worldwide tendency when it opened in 1895. This course offers both a history of the biennial and an introduction to this year’s edition. It can also be combined with a guided visit to the biennial.
Now in its 61st edition, In Minor Keys will run from 9 May until 22 November 2026 and follows the concept of the late Cameroon curator Koyo Kouoh. It invites to “a sensory and emotional realm, where quiet frequencies, poetic gestures, and intimate worlds offer a counterpoint to the dominant noise of global crisis and spectacle.”
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