Evelyn Simons

Dates of residency: January till  February 2016
Born: 1989
Nationality: Belgian
Lives and works: Brussels, Belgium
Education: 
2015 Postgraduate on Curating at the School of Arts Ghent
2011 MA in Art History at the University of Gent
Selected shows
2019 Fallen empires and refound desires, Horst Arts & Music, Vilvoorde, Belgium
2017 I spy, I spy a little lie, with Isabel Van Bos, Marres House for Contemporary Culture Maastricht
2017 Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents, Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums, Athens2016 Onder ons, Ciap Kunstverein, Hasselt

The Artist
Evelyn Simons  is a curator and art writer. Since 2019, she has been the in-house curator of visual art for Horst Arts & Music, fusing visual art with architecture and electronic music, on a derelict military base in Vilvoorde - currently being redeveloped as public space. Simons is the Resident & Artist Liaison at Fondation CAB, a privately owned non-profit focused on Minimal and Conceptual art. 

The Residency
Simons extended her curatorial practice, with a more experimental research on the artistic scene and the civic history of Beirut and its architecture. This resulted in an associative soundscape and a photographic series that reflected a socio-cultural dialogue with her immediate surroundings. The soundscape illustrated Beirut’s communities living side by side, exemplifying the seemingly segregated and conflicted atmosphere that defines the city’s social cohesion. The series of photographs juxtaposed the sense of destruction permeating the city’s architecture and remnants, with the beauty advertisements imposing a continuous correction of outward appearances.