Evelyn Simons (b.1989, BE) is a curator, writer and creative consultant based in Brussels. Her practice operates on the intersection between site-specific art commissioning, transdisciplinary collaboration and developing discursive activities. She is particularly interested in facilitating artistic experiment by working at the crossroads between art, nightlife, music, architecture, performance and fashion, initiating collaboration between creatives from various fields.
From 2018 till 2023, she led the art programme at Horst Arts & Music - an initiative blending contemporary art, architecture and electronic music on an abandoned military site in the Brussels’ periphery. Prior to that, she was affiliated with Fondation CAB, a private foundation for Minimal art in Brussels and St. Paul-de-Vence, where she curated various exhibitions and set up a residency programme.
She is laureate of Curate Award by Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums (2014), as a result of which she curated “Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents” (2017) in Athens, as well as “The Never Never”, an ongoing modular project consisting of a short movie, a marketing campaign and an itinerant exhibition with artist Jeremy Hutchison.
Evelyn curated exhibitions in Luxemburg, Germany, France, Greece and Belgium; produced two short films; and has worked out development strategies for artistic organisations. She holds an MA in Art History (University Ghent) and a Postgraduate in Curatorial Studies (KASK Ghent). She was curator-in-residence at Beirut Art Residency (Lebanon, 2015), at Villa Lena (Italy, 2022) and currently at HIAP Helsinki with Frame (Finland, 2024). Evelyn currently oversees several permanent commissions in public space for the Flemish Government (BE).
She is the co-founder of RendezVous - Brussels Art Week; kicking off its first edition in September 2024.
From 2018 till 2023, she led the art programme at Horst Arts & Music - an initiative blending contemporary art, architecture and electronic music on an abandoned military site in the Brussels’ periphery. Prior to that, she was affiliated with Fondation CAB, a private foundation for Minimal art in Brussels and St. Paul-de-Vence, where she curated various exhibitions and set up a residency programme.
She is laureate of Curate Award by Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums (2014), as a result of which she curated “Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents” (2017) in Athens, as well as “The Never Never”, an ongoing modular project consisting of a short movie, a marketing campaign and an itinerant exhibition with artist Jeremy Hutchison.
Evelyn curated exhibitions in Luxemburg, Germany, France, Greece and Belgium; produced two short films; and has worked out development strategies for artistic organisations. She holds an MA in Art History (University Ghent) and a Postgraduate in Curatorial Studies (KASK Ghent). She was curator-in-residence at Beirut Art Residency (Lebanon, 2015), at Villa Lena (Italy, 2022) and currently at HIAP Helsinki with Frame (Finland, 2024). Evelyn currently oversees several permanent commissions in public space for the Flemish Government (BE).
She is the co-founder of RendezVous - Brussels Art Week; kicking off its first edition in September 2024.