Jana Johanna Haeckel

 

Jana Johanna Haeckel is an independent curator, researcher, and lecturer based in Brussels. Her research and exhibitions explore image and body politics in contemporary art, addressing the evolving ethics of photography in the digital age and highlighting artistic practices that challenge historical and colonial narratives through innovative archival research.

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Jana holds a PhD in art history and currently lectures at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent (KASK), where she supervises the research cluster Archival Sensations, and is an associate senior researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Centre (KU Leuven / UC Louvain, Belgium).

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Previously, she directed Photoforum Pasquart in Switzerland, where she has curated solo and group exhibitions with artists including Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah, Bianca Baldi, Sheida Soleimani, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, and Salvatore Vitale. International selected exhibition projects include  Love, Maybe – Intimacy and Desire in Contemporary Art (Alexander Tutskek-Stiftung, Munich, 2025), Resistant Faces (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2021), Everything Passes Except the Past (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2020), and the nomadic art programme Perruche (Goethe-Institut, Brussels, 2018–2021).

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Current | Recent

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Exhibition

Laura Palau: Mal hora, bon hora, Centre Del Carme, Valencia, 21.11.2025 - 18.1.2026

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Interview | Articles

"Do-Li-Na. At the margins of visibility", essay on the work of Davide Degano, CAMERA AUSTRIA, 173/2026.

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Bilderuniversum No 8. Interview mit Jana Johanna Haeckel : Über die Verknüpfung von Care-Diskurs und Fotografie, kollaboratives Arbeiten und "caring structures" im Kulturbetrieb. 

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Publications

Love, Maybe – Intimacy and Desire in Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Distanz 2025.

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Everything Passes Except the Past. Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums, Film Archives and Public Space, Sternberg Press 2021.

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Contact: jana.haeckel@gmail.com