ONBOARDS BIENNALE 25
is a contemporary art exhibition on billboards. In July 2025, 14th till 28th, works by established and emerging artists will be showcased across Antwerp.
RELATIONSHIPS rooted in relatio – “to bring back” or “reconnect” – are fundamental to creating meaning. They link people, objects, and ideas, restoring connections and shaping our understanding of the world. The Onboards Biennale proposes the theme RELATIONSHIPS to artists, inviting them to explore social, environmental, cultural, and conceptual bonds, transforming public billboards into spaces of exchange between artists, audiences, and the urban environment.
SELECTION COMMITTEE 2025
Ruth Pelzer Montada
Ruth Pelzer-Montada, PhD, is an artist and lecturer in the School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh
She has participated in and curated exhibitions in Scotland and abroad. Her essays on contemporary printmaking and art have appeared in journals, conference proceedings and specialist publications. Her critical anthology Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking was published in 2018.
Sarah Suzuki
Sarah Suzuki is MoMA’s Associate Director
Museum of Modern Art, New York
serving as the liaison between senior administration and the Museum’s six curatorial departments and leading the Curatorial Affairs Division, which includes Archives, Library, and Research Collections; Conservation; Editorial and Content Strategy; Education; and Publications.
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Bruno Devos
Bruno Devos, publisher and maker of art books
HOPPER&FUCHS
Bruno Devos has worked in the publishing and printing world for over thirty years and uses his expertise and knowledge to guide artists in creating one of the greatest objects in the world, an art book. Bruno Devos has been organising or curating contemporary art and photography exhibitions in Belgium and abroad. He is also an ambassador and advocate of cultural diplomacy, and a regular member of academic juries, and giving guest lectures in art schools on the topic of the book.
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Nav Haq
Nav Haq is an Associate Director at M HKA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
where he responsible for the artistic programme, and is an editor at Afterall journal. He previously held curatorial positions at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Gasworks, London, and has organised many solo exhibitions with artists including Otobong Nkanga, Shilpa Gupta, and Haegue Yang, as well as significant overviews of work by Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Joseph Beuys and Laure Prouvost.
At M HKA he co-curated the group exhibition Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics (2014), Energy Flash – The Rave Movement (2016), and MONOCULTURE – A Recent History (2020). With Pascal Gielen he edited the book The Aesthetics of Ambiguity – Understanding and Addressing Monoculture (Valiz, 2021), and with Joanna Zielińska, edited the book Eurasia – An Atlas (Jap Sam, 2023).
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