With a PhD in art history (Paris 1-Sorbonne, 2004), Julie Bawin (1977) is a professor at the University of Liège, where she teaches contemporary art history. Specializing in the study of curating, she is the author of a reference work on L'artiste commissaire (Paris, éditions des archives contemporaines, 2014) and has just published De quoi le curating est-il le nom. Métamorphoses d'une pratique dans le champ de l'exposition (Bruxelles, éditions de La Lettre volée, 2025). She is also founding president of the FNRS research group “Musées et art contemporain”.
Since 2017, she has directed the Musée d'art contemporain en plein air du Sart Tilman, a mission entrusted to her by the University of Liège and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. She develops numerous projects around public art and, in 2024, published the highly publicized book Art public et controverses. XIXe-XXIe siècle (Paris, CNRS éditions).
Alongside her scientific work (publications, symposia, conferences, etc.) and international colloborations, she regularly organizes exhibitions. In 2018, for example, she curated an exhibition devoted to Marcel Duchamp at the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris, and in 2024, she organized an exhibition at the Musée Wittert, University of Liège, dedicated to the artist Léon Wuidar's relationship with architecture. In 2017, she also curated an exhibition by Toma Muteba Luntumbue at La Cité Miroir in Liège.
Julie Bawin is also a member of numerous learned societies, research groups and professional associations (ICOM, ICOMFOM, AICA).
From 2005 to 2018, she was a visiting professor at the University of Namur, where she taught contemporary art history.
Contact
jbawin@uliege.be