Anne-Claire Schmitz is the director of La Loge a contemporary art space dedicated to contemporary art, architecture and theory in Brussels. Alongside her work at La Loge, she curated exhibitions such as Les Bons Sentiments the 19th Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard Prize (2017) in Paris; Individual Stories – Collecting as Portrait and Methodology, at Kunsthalle Wien (2015); or acted as the Belgian correspondent for the project Europe Europe initiated by Thomas Boutoux, Gunnar B. Kvaran and Hans-Ulrich Obrist at the Oslos’s Astrup Fearnley Museet (2014). Prior to La Loge, Anne-Claire Schmitz was a curator at Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, in Rotterdam. In 2012, WIELS invited Anne-Claire Schmitz to conceive, with Elena Filipovic, the exhibition Un-Scene II. Her experience as exhibition curator goes hand in hand with her occasional engagements in the world of teaching, her participation in juries and selection committees, and the writing of texts. Her collaboration with Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys on the occasion of the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2019) is an embodiment of the country’s cultural synergy and of the vitality of its artistic field. Together, they are bound by a shared engagement, characterized by a field practice divorced from administrative concerns, in Belgium’s cultural field. Following an open call for projects launched by Alda Greoli, the Minister of Culture of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Anne-Claire Schmitz suggested the artists to hand in a project together to represent Belgium at the Biennale Arte 2019.
