De Ateliers 2021

Nav Haq

Function: Associate Director at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp Country: Belgium Visiting period: 12 - 16 October Visiting year: 2021 Part of De Ateliers 2021

He was Senior Curator at M HKA from 2012-2019. Haq was a founding editor of the online research platform for the L’Internationale confederation of European museums and is an editor at Afterall.

He was previously Exhibitions Curator at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Curator at Gasworks, London. Haq has organised numerous monographic exhibitions with artists such as Cosima von Bonin, Shilpa Gupta, Imogen Stidworthy, Otobong Nkanga and Cevdet Erek, as well as significant overviews of work by Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Joseph Beuys, Kerry James Marshall and Laure Prouvost. Has was curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2017. Other group exhibitions have included Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction (2012); Museum Show – a major historical survey of (semi-fictional) museums created by artists (2011); the two-person exhibition The Sea Wall presenting works by Haegue Yang and Felix Gonzalez-Torres (2011); Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie: Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art, co-curated with Tirdad Zolghadr (2006-09); and Contour Biennial 2007, Mechelen, Belgium. At M HKA he co-curated the group exhibition Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics in 2014, as well as curating the interdisciplinary exhibitions Energy Flash: The Rave Movement (2016) and Monoculture – A Recent History (2020-21). In 2012, he was recipient of the Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement, awarded by Independent Curators International, New York.