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Team

Direction

Prof. Dr. Manfred Sellink

Museum Director

Financial team

Vic Verhasselt

Financial coordinator

Séverine Baert

Fundraising, partnerships and sustainability

Brigitte De Vos

HR officer

Peggy Hobbels

PR & Events Officer

Karen Rodts

Policy officer

Pascale Van Lent

Financial officer

Annelies Valgaeren

Digital Strategist

Collection, research and exhibitions

Dr. Johan De Smet

Department Head

Dr. Frederica Van Dam

Team lead of exhibitions & curator of Old Masters

Dr. Frederica Van Dam

Team lead of exhibitions & curator of Old Masters

Frederica Van Dam studied Art History at Ghent University and has been the curator of Old Masters at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK) since 2017. She co-curated the widely acclaimed 2020 exhibition ‘Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution’ and was the driving force behind the first monographic exhibition on the Flemish Caravaggist Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637), along with an accompanying book (2023). She is currently preparing an exhibition on women artists in the Low Countries (1600-1750) with the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.

Frederica obtained a PhD in Art History researching Flemish painters in England in the Early Modern period, and within this context, published a book on a painter and poet from Ghent, Lucas d’Heere (1534-1584) during his time in England. The focus of her expertise is Early Modern painting (1500-1620), specifically Anglo-Flemish portraiture, technical art history, connoisseurship and Southern Netherlandish Humanism in the Renaissance.

Dr. Griet Bonne

Collection and research

Inez De Prekel

Assistant curator

Lieven Gerard

Restaurator & conservator

Jet Peters

Exhibition organiser

Joost Surmont

Restaurator & conservator

Candice Van Heghe

Assistant curator

Library and archive

Sofie Corneillie

Library assistant

Gwenny Dhaese

archivist and document manager

Marketing, communications and audiences

Dr. Bart Ooghe

Department head

Bart Ooghe obtained a PhD at Ghent University, linking cultural history, literature and historical geography. In 2007, he made the leap to the cultural sector, and since 2015 he has been working at the MSK as head of marketing, communications and audience engagement.

Together with the team, he strives to reach and engage increasingly diverse audiences, both inside and outside the museum walls. A partial aspect of this is the MSK's LGBTQIA+ programming, which he coordinates since 2021 and as a result of which he is curator of the Queer Belgian Art exhibition (2027).

Soetkin Bruneel

Press & online communication manager

Nele Du Bois

Communications officer

Ruud Ruttens

Graphic designer

Lisa Bracke

Audience engagement officer

Lies Ledure

Audience engagement officer

Melissa Melsens

Audience engagement officer

Shop and front of house

Veerle Penninck

Shop manager

David Henry

Receptionist

Isabelle Heytens

Receptionist

Alexandra Becerra Lopez

Receptionist

Facility management and secutiry

Wesley De Smet

Department head

Els Anthuenis

Reception and technical assistant

Boris De Bisschop

Reception and technical assistant

Ilja Vandenbroucke

Building manager

Security guards

Annick, Bart, Carine, Carine, Cinderella, Dave, Geert, Gunter, Karin, Kenneth, Mike, Reza, Sam, Sven, Tom

Friends of the MSK

Sven Bontinck

Secretary

Volunteer programmes

Brigitte De Vos

HR officer

Catherine Norro

Volunteers

Museum volunteers

Alexandra, Lieve, Eddy, Michel, Bart, Kurt, Jean, Hilde, Erica, Eric, Rita, Monique, Betty, Gudrun, Katleen, Mieke, Katrien, Vibe, Paula, Maarten, Béatrice, Chris, Gina, Peter, Daisy, Jean, Boris, Berre, Myriam, Sofie, Brigitte, Matteo, Tom

Guides and workshops

Melissa Melsens

Audience engagement officer

Museum guides

Martine Audenaert, Erik Bassier, Saskia Benoit, Sylvie Brems, Bieke Brunin, Helen Buys, Zoë Croegaert, Celesta Daniëls, Miguel De Clerq, Rozemarijn de Keyser, Saskia De Keyser, Claudine De Mulder, Jakob de Smaele, Katrien De Tremerie, Kathy De Vos, Nora De Wit, Valerie De Witte, Christine Demeunynck, Marianne Devogele, Dominique Dumon, Pieter Duysburgh, Petja Gekiere, An Hernalsteen, Sybren Janssens, Catherine Lampo, Lisa Man, Hildegarde Meganck, Omar Pluymers, Wim Provoost, Eric Reynaerts, Paul Sioncke, Annemie Stautemas, Annelies Steen, Sofie Steen, Joris Strouken, Louise Van de Werve, Ann Van Eenaeme, Karen Van Gulik, Jo Vandevelde & Mieke Vyncke.

Meet our guides and workshop supervisors

Schoonvolk

Lisa Bracke

Audience engagement officer

Schoonvolkers

Matilde Bruneel, Kobe Cottyn, Maaike D'Aes, Candice Dalino, Lotte De Broyer, Jakob De Smaele, Hannah Engelen, Mirte Fransen, Arwen Gryson, Delphine Hanssens, Noé Lagaert, Aaron Leijssen, Lana Rossie, Mona Schockaert, Jits Schoonacker, Mira Thielemans, Charlot Vael, Hasse Van Houcke & Lotte Wouters