Devrim Bayar

Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Brussels
Senior Curator

Devrim Bayar is Senior Curator at the KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. At the time of her visit in 2015, she was curator at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, where she worked from 2012 – 2022. During her time at WIELS, she curated exhibitions of artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, R.H. Quaytman, Huguette Caland, René Daniëls, Sammy Baloji, Helena Almeida, among others, as well as major group shows, including Something Stronger Than Me*, exploring recent developments in collaborative art practices. Bayar also organised a series of exhibitions Un-Scene featuring emerging artists working in Belgium. A Brussels native, she was the founding director of the editorial and curatorial platform Le Salon, dedicated to the local art scene, between 2011 and 2016. Her independent curatorial projects include the multi-disciplinary festival Indiscipline at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016) and the 2022 edition of the Geneva Biennale —Sculpture Garden. Bayar is an author and editor of numerous publications and exhibitions catalogues, most recently a monograph Jacqueline de Jong, The Ultimate Kiss (Fonds Mercator, 2021).

Devrim Bayar was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2015 when she worked at WIELS in Brussels.

Devrim Bayar. Photo: Veerle Vercauteren.