Professor of Modern Art History in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.

John writes regularly on modern and contemporary art and critical theory. Among his numerous publications are Past Realization: Essays on Contemporary European Art; After the Wagnerian Bouillabaisse: Essays on European Avant-Garde Art; Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity; Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles; and Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990’s.

He is the editor of three collections of writings by the artist Mike Kelley, and the co-editor of Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art.

Welchman has written art criticism for Artforum, where he had a column in the late 1980s and early 90s; Screen; and the New York Times, among other newspapers and journals.

Performing Arts Curator at Wendel Auditorium and Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France.

Independent Consultant

Bachelors in Romance languages and literature at the University of Antwerp. Additionally, he specialized in so-called “pragma-semiotics” (performance analysis) during a post-academic study in theatre sciences at the universities of Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent.

From 1996 till 1999 he worked as a member of staff and artistic advisor for the programming of the Cultural Centre of Hasselt, Belgium (theatre and dance). Until September 2020, he worked as a staff member of Troubleyn/Jan Fabre, a theatre company in Antwerp, responsible for the artistic development of the company infrastructure (Troubleyn/Laboratorium) and for the (long term) artistic and financial policy of the company in general.

In 2010 he founded the research group “Laboratorium”, which is a trans-disciplinary scientific research group focusing on the teachings and training guidelines developed by Jan Fabre. Since 2021, he is active as an independent consultant and dramaturg.

Curator Magritte Museum, Brussels
Professor Art History, Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Stefan is a professor and curator working on temporary interventions in the public space. Inspired by the art history classes he attended at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he decided to study Art History and Archaeology at the Free University of Brussels (VUB).

During these studies he worked as a translator and a writer for the communication department of the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. His interest increasingly shifted towards time-based art forms and in 2015 he received a double PhD in Art History and Archaeology (Free University of Brussels) and in Theater Sciences (University of Antwerp) for his research on the Belgian Happening scene of the mid-1960s.

In order to finance his studies he collaborated for the online database Belgium is Happening and participated as a performance artist in the international performance group Virtual Vérité, led by Los Angeles-based artist Harry Gamboa, Jr. Stefan has been the curator of the Belgium Performance Festival.