Pauline Koffi Vandet

Pauline Koffi Vandet (b. 1994, DK/CI, she/her) is an independent curator based in Copenhagen, holding an MA in Visual Culture. Her curatorial practice is characterised by a critical, dialogical, and process-oriented approach to exhibition-making, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and responsiveness to social, political, cultural, and spatial contexts. Central to her work is the ambition to develop curatorial strategies that create meaningful encounters, critical reflection, and new ways of engaging with contemporary art. She is particularly committed to questioning and reimagining the role of art and cultural institutions in today’s society.

From 2023-2024, Koffi Vandet served as the director of Fotografisk Center, a Copenhagen-based art institution dedicated to media- and lens-based contemporary art, following her tenure as assistant curator (2020-2023). She also collaborates regularly with artist and professor Jane Jin Kaisen (2023-), contributing to both artistic production and research-based initiatives. Furthermore, she co-founded the curatorial duo Koffi & Højgaard with curator Ida Højgaard Thjømøe in 2023, through which they explore experimental curatorial methodologies aimed at facilitating complex, conflictual, and vulnerable forms of dialogue. The duo currently act as art consultants and curators for the public art anniversary programme Places We Meet – Art in Public Spaces (Stavanger Municipality, Norway, 2025-2027), and as project managers for the ongoing transatlantic public art project I Am Queen Mary by Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle (2022-).

Pauline Koffi Vandet is invited by the Finnish Institute in Denmark in collaboration with Frame in the context of the Helsinki Biennial 2025. Her visit is made possible thanks to the support of the Finnish Institute in Denmark.