Hicham Khalidi (1972) has been director of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (NL) since 2018. As a Post-Academic Institute, the Jan van Eyck offers residencies to international artists, designers, writers, curators and other artistic researchers and makers.
Khalidi was the curator of the Dutch entry for the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024. From 2015 until 2018, he worked as associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. He was also the curator of the group exhibition ACT II for the Sharjah Biennale in Beirut in 2017, cultural attaché of the Sydney Biennale in 2016 and chief curator of the Marrakech Biennale in 2014. As a curator, Khalidi is interested in the context and conditions related to contemporary art and art-institutional practices and specifically in how the climate emergency, the accumulation of crises and processes of colonialism affect these practices. He considers curatorship as working in service of and in coalition with other people.
