Barbara Vanderlinden

Barbara Vanderlinden is an art critic, editor, and independent curator. She began her career in the mid-1990s as co-curator of the contemporary art program of Antwerp '93, European Capital of Culture, under its auspices, co-organized the exhibitions New Sculptures for Middelheim (1992), Middelheimmuseum, Middelheim; On Taking a Normal Situation... (1993), MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp; and The Sublime Void: On the Memory of the Imagination (1993), Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp. She has gone on to be the founding director of Roomade, Brussels (1996–2005) where she initiated and produced projects in collaboration with artists such as Mullican Matt Mullican under Hypnosis (1996), Carsten Höller, Boudewijn Experiment, Deliberate Experiment in Doubt (2000), and Andreas Slominski (1997), and produced a series of artist's films and exhibitions such as Laboratorium (1999) co-curated. In 2005, she founded the Brussels Biennial, and was the artistic director of it first edition Brussels Biennial I, “Re-used Modernity” (2008–09).