Jan Boelen is a curator of design, architecture, and contemporary art.
Jan is rector at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (HfG) and artistic director of Atelier LUMA, an experimental laboratory for design in Arles, France. He is the founder and former artistic director of Z33 – House for contemporary art in Hasselt, Belgium and was curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial in Istanbul (2018) and initiated Manifesta 9 in Belgium (2012).
Jan also curated the Lithuanian Pavilion Planet of People in the Venice Architecture Biennial (2021). He recently edited Social Matter, Social Design: For Good or Bad, all Design is Social (Valiz, 2020), writing about the implications of design in everyday life.
