With a degree in Political Science and a PhD in Art History, Maïté Vissault is a contemporary-art historian, a critic and independent curator. From 2013 to 2018 she directed the ikob-museum for contemporary art in Eupen, Belgium, and then the ISELP-Institut Supérieur de l’Etude du Langage Plastique in Brussel. She's publishing in various books, reviews (ETC Montréal, Art Même, Allemagne d’aujourd’hui, Critique d’art, etc.) and catalogues in contemporary-art. 2010 she published Der Beuys Komplex. L’identité allemande à travers la réception de l’œuvre de Joseph Beuys (1945-1986) by Presses du reel. Her numerous talks in universities and at fine arts schools and various projects in France, Belgium and Germany focus mainly on socio-political and environmental issues of the world of contemporary art.
She was curator for contemporary art at the Landesmuseum of Münster, Germany in 2002-2004 and realized there 2004 amongs others cremers haufen on the theme of everyday life in art from the 1960s to the present. She’s also responsible for several major exhibitions, including in 2006 an exhibition in the public space Leere X Vision: ConneXions in collaboration with the Marta Museum (Herford, DE) and the HISK (Gent/Antwerp, BE), in 2013 Stasis | Ruben Bellinkx at Be Part (Warengem, BE), in 2014 Fata Morgana at the ikob, in 2018 Com nu Ties at the Iselp and Resistance at the Centrale for contemporary art (Brussel).