Team

As Curator of Old Masters at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Dr. Frederica Van Dam oversees the museum’s art collection dating from before the French Revolution and leads its exhibition department. Her expertise lies in Southern Netherlandish early modern painting (1500–1700), with particular attention to its connections to England and Italy and to women artists. She co-curated the widely acclaimed 2020 exhibition Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution and spearheaded the first monographic exhibition on the Flemish Caravaggist Theodoor Rombouts (1597–1637). Frederica is currently preparing an exhibition on women artists in the Low Countries (1600–1750) in collaboration with the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C.

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).