Evelyn Simons

Evelyn Simons (b. 1989, Halle, Belgium) is a curator and writer based in Brussels. She holds a Masters in Art History (University Ghent) and a Postgraduate in Curatorial Studies (School of Arts, Ghent).

From 2019 till 2023, she ran the visual arts and performance programming at Horst Arts & Music – an initiative blending art and electronic music on an abandoned military site in Brussels. She programs the artists-in-residence for the Fondation CAB Bruxelles and Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
As a freelance curator, she is laureate of Curate Award by Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums (2014). She curated “Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents” (2017) in Athens, and is currently developing “The Never Never”, an itinerant exhibition and short movie with artist Jeremy Hutchison.
Evelyn curated exhibitions in Luxemburg, Germany, France, Greece and Belgium.

She was curator-in-residence previously at Beirut Art Residency (Lebanon, 2015), and at Villa Lena (Italy, 2021).

HICP 2024: During her residency, she will delve into the art scene of Helsinki, more precisely by conducting studio visits and visiting Helsinki’s vast collection of public art commissions. She also uses this time and isolation to work on her first novel.