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Ismini Kyritsis is a curator and art historian working at the intersection of art, science, and ecology. With a specific interest in the ecological and societal impact of digital technologies, her curatorial practice takes an ecosystemic turn shaping connections between different entities, disciplines and practices. Through exhibitions, research, and residencies, she fosters dialogue between human, natural, and technological entities while developing curatorial methodologies that respond to ecological and ethical uncertainties.

Ismini holds a Masters degree in Arts and Culture (Museums and Collectiosn) from Leiden University (2023) and a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies form the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (2024). In recent years she has co-curated exhibitions and public programs in Kusthal Ghent (BE), Het Paviljoen (BE), Vleeshal (NL), iMAL (BE) and TINC (KR). She is currently part of Off-Centre, a collective of art workers bringing visibility to local art initiatives within the neighborhoods of Brussels through public tours and workshops. With a focus on artist-run spaces, its members aspire to foster community engagement, encourage mutual support, and create opportunities to learn from local collectives who demonstrate resilience in face of cultural and economic challenges.



Contact: isminikyritsis@gmail.com

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Musée imaginaire: a poem on shared vision

Feb. 9th - 25th, 2024

Zwarte Zaal, KASK (BE)
Artists: KASK MA Photograph

List of artists: Awa Gaye, Elke Pannier, Emma Terlinck, Jan Nijs, Jan Staiger, Laura Smekens, Luca De Ridder, Lyn de Weijer, Manon Jejcic, Martijn De Meuleneire, Gilles Vandaele, Maya Vandegehuchte, Simon Gerlinger, Vincent Koevoets, Naomi James Schatteman, Sebastian Vielma Fleischhaker

Curated display for Laura Smekens, L'(in)visible




Musée Imaginaire: A Poem on Shared Vision explores collaborative potentials in photography as well as in exhibition making. 

Moving away from the idea of a 'single creator' that shaped the foundation of Western art history, our exhibition experiments with speculative forms and potentials of non-hierarchical creation. Reconstructing the public space of an ‘agora’, the exhibition invites the visitor to a spatial experience, open for negotiation and exchange. 



Text by Ismini Kyritsis

Truths —

one’s, ours, anyone’s,

Everyone’s.

Truths —

known, unknown 

But Known

Some truths appear in the most unpredicted places, leaving behind traces that are invisible to others, invisible to us but still manage to hunt and visit us again and again and again…

Expanding her previous photographic exploration through everyday locations where violence and harassment can leave their marks, L'(in)visible by Laura Smekens takes a deep dive into the hidden battlefields of our fears and healing processes. By offering a glimpse into her unconsciousness, Laura attempts to capture within her photographic work the unspoken, the silent —and silenced — scars of violence in human relationships; scars that survive in small, ordinary objects, often revealed through innocent everyday rituals. 

A pin. A kitchen knife. A kiss on the back of the neck. Scissors that cut, and cut, and cut again, become witnesses of the invisible traumas imprinted in our bodies and memories.

In L'(in)visible symbols and acts of everyday life mingle and create an almost surrealistic choreography of hidden fragilities and emotions. These unknown landscapes of the unconscious mind in Laura's work are not to be feared but rather confronted as places of healing; a healing that is not an easy result but a perpetual process.

This is how Laura sees her work as well. Her display shares a vast collage of her archival sources giving visibility to diverse voices echoing in her work, while at the same time inviting the visitor to get into dialogue with her and contribute to the research process. On this fragmented background, her photographic frames, like small windows, unveil only a fraction of these unconscious landscapes that are central to Laura's inspiration. In this almost open studio setting Laura offers a transparent visualization of her artistic practice to the public and creates a shared space for personal and collective contemplation and reflection. A place where the invisible testimonies of fear, disappointment and agony become a visible process of healing.