Discover Ali Cherri’s exhibition Soul Witness with Laura Herman, curator, writer, and artistic co-director of NW, Open House for Contemporary Art and Film in Aalst.
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Laura Herman is a curator, writer, and artistic co-director of NW, Open House for Contemporary Art and Film in Aalst. She is also course director of the postgraduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent.
At NW, recent projects include solo exhibitions with Pauline Curnier Jardin, Ula Sickle, Basyma Saad, Guy Woueté and Fernando Marques Penteado, as well as the group exhibitions Ritual in Transfigured Time and Songs of Dissent. Previously, as curator at La Loge, Brussels (2016–2020), she curated exhibitions by Uriel Orlow, Carey Young and Zoë Paul. From 2018 to 2020, she curated The New Sanctuary, the 12th Satellite Programme of Jeu de Paume, developed with CAPC Bordeaux and Museo Amparo, Puebla.
In 2022, Herman received the Prize for Young Art Criticism for her essay on Camille Henrot and motherhood. Her writing has appeared in various international publications, and she has contributed to numerous artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. With Henry Andersen, she co-edited The Floor Is Uneven. Does It Slope? (Mousse Publishing, 2019).
Herman is president of the board of Contour Biennale and serves on the advisory board of Kunsthal Mechelen, the Acquisition Committee of the Flemish Community Collection and the VAF Filmlab Committee.
