Hicham Khalidi

Hicham Khalidi (b. 1972) has served as the director of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands, 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.

In 2024, Khalidi curated Dutch entry for the 60th Venice Biennale. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as an associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. He has also served as the curator of the group exhibition “ACT II” for the Sharjah Biennale in Beirut in 2017, as cultural attaché of the Sydney Biennale in 2016, and as chief curator of the Marrakech Biennale in 2014.

As a curator, Khalidi is interested in the contexts and conditions of contemporary art and art-institutional practices, and how they are affected by the climate emergency, the accumulation of crises, and processes of colonialism. He considers curatorship to be working in service of and in coalition with others.