Luxembourg Art Week is proud to present the selection committee for its 2025 edition. Composed of art professionals from diverse backgrounds and appointed for a three-year term, with some overlap to ensure continuity, the committee plays a pivotal role in reviewing and selecting exhibitors for Luxembourg Art Week 2025. We are delighted to welcome Florence Ostende, who joins the committee and brings her expertise.
Florence Ostende is Head of Artistic Department at Mudam Luxembourg. She was previously Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London, where she curated the exhibitions Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for Now (2023), Noguchi (2021), Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer (2020), Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (2019), Daria Martin: Tonight the World (2019) and The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945 (2017). Before joining the Barbican in 2016, Ostende curated the exhibitions Ugo Rondinone: I Love John Giorno (2015) and Dioramas (2016) at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Earlier roles include those of Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary and tutor of theory and art history at the University of Art and Design – HEAD in Geneva. She has published texts on modern and contemporary art in numerous exhibition catalogues and journals. She recently curated the exhibition Francis Alÿs: Ricochets at Barbican, London and Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto.
