HISK curator for the second-year candidate laureates 2022.
Yann Chateigné Tytelman is an independent curator, editor and writer based in Brussels. His interests span from minor histories and counterculture, sciences of the mind to the politics of obscurity. He is currently exploring how an exhibition can take the form of a novel, while researching the subject of the disappearance of the Night. Often working in cooperation, his projects navigate the intersections of curating, publishing, performance and education.
He has been a guest curator at Country SALTS, a space that operates in Basel's countryside, connecting art and rural ways of life. He was an artistic advisor and mentor at MORPHO, Antwerp (2021 – 2023) ; curator at HISK, Ghent (2022), at KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2019 – 2021); head of the Visual Arts Department and professor at HEAD – Genève (2009−2021) and of the programming at CAPC Museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux (2007 – 2009).
He recently (co-)organized exhibitions and projects such as "Four Sisters" (Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, 2023), "A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards" (HISK, Brussels, 2022), "How to be Organic?" (Country SALTS, Bennwil, 2022), "Gordon Matta-Clark: Material Thinking" (Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, 2019 – 2021), "By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape" (Le Commun, Geneva, 2019). He co-edited "Almanach Ecart. A collective archive, 1969 – 2019" (HEAD-Geneva/ art&fiction, 2019), that has been awarded the Golden Letter, the highest award of the 2020 edition of the Best Book Design from All Over the World.
As a writer, he contributed to several books, catalogues and periodicals including Conceptual Fine Arts, Mousse, Spike and Frieze. He taught at various schools and universities, among them Ecole du Louvre, Paris, HEAD – Genève and erg, Brussels. Since 2018, he serves as a PhD Supervisor at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Oslo.
Recently published: "Blackout", a publication released by Geneva's Centre d'Edition Contemporaine, in 2023.