Barbara Vanderlinden

Barbara Vanderlinden is an art historian and curator. Most recently, she was Professor of Exhibition Studies and Director of the Exhibition Laboratory at the University of the Arts in Helsinki. Previously, she held the positions of Visiting Professor of Exhibition Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, Professor of the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, and Lecturer at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. She served as founding director of Roomade in Brussels from 1995 to 2006 and artistic director of the Brussels Biennial from 2006 to 2009, where she was also curator of its first edition in 2008. Before that, she was curator of the contemporary art program of Antwerp ‘93, Cultural Capital of Europe, from 1991 to 1994. She served as curator for Manifesta 2, European biennial of contemporary art, the 24th Sao Paulo Biennale, and the Taipei Biennial 2004. Curator of 58/98: Two Hours Wide, Two Hours Long (Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, 1998), Laboratorium (Photo Museum of Antwerp, 1999), Generation Z (MoMA PS1 in New York, 1999), and Indiscipline (Brussels 2000, Cultural Capital of Europe). She co-authored numerous publications on contemporary art, including Helena Almeida (Electa, 1998) and Maurizio Catalan (Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2003). Vanderlinden is author and editor of Mariella Simoni, 1975–2018 (Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2019) and Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005).