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Karen Kurczynski is living in Belgium on a Fulbright Scholar Grant for Teaching and Research at the University of Ghent for Fall semester, 2018. She is co-teaching a Research Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Art for MA students with Professor Steven Jacobs. The seminar involves both archival research and exhibition planning for the new Vandenhove Gallery. This is the University's first art gallery, designed by leading Belgian architect Charles Vandenhove to showcase his donated collection of contemporary art works. The gallery will open in November with an exhibition on the Surrealist-related journal Variétés curated by Professor Jacobs and students. Professor Kurczynski's seminar advising focuses on the Cobra movement (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam, 1948-51), the subject of her research in Belgium and the Netherlands for her book on the movement, under contract with Routledge. She is doing research at the Archives et Musée de la Littérature in Brussels and at various art collections in Belgium and the Netherlands, and making some new connections among the Dutch, Flemish, and Walloon academic and museum communities.

Karen Kurczynski and Steven Jacobs, Professor of Kunstwetenschappen at University of Ghent, with Nuages en pantalons (Clouds Wearing Pants), 1957, by Pierre Alechinsky in storage at SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium.  Photograph by PhD student Griet Bonne.