TRIYAD is a curatorial and cultural platform bridging Europe and the Gulf

Lisa De Boeck is a Brussels-based curator, cultural strategist, artistic director and artist whose work builds connections between artists, institutions, collections and audiences across Europe, the Gulf and the United States. Her practice draws on four interconnected fields: curating, artistic direction, art consulting and her own long-term artistic practice. Guided by intuition and bold choices, she works through long-term relationships, with the conviction that an artist’s narrative, institutional relationships and critical visibility are inseparable from their lasting relevance.

In December 2024, she founded TRIYAD, a curatorial and cultural platform developing exhibitions, cultural partnerships and institutional collaborations across Europe and the Gulf, grounded in research, dialogue and meaningful cultural exchange. In April 2025, TRIYAD presented its inaugural exhibition, Fragments of Folklore, co-curated with THAA and MIR’A Art at JAX District in Riyadh, marking the beginning of a programme dedicated to artistic dialogue across cultures, generations and geographies. In January 2026, TRIYAD curated the presentation of works by His Highness Sheikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain at BRAFA Art Fair in Brussels. Realised with Christophe Boon, director of Boon Gallery and vice president of BRAFA, it marked Sheikh Rashid’s first participation in the fair and placed his work in dialogue with Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Alighiero Boetti and Antony Gormley.

From December 2022 to July 2025, Lisa was Artistic and General Director of Studio Jean Boghossian, the studio of the artist and co-founder of the Boghossian Foundation at Villa Empain. Working closely with the artist, she shaped the studio’s artistic vision and international positioning, from exhibition strategy and curatorial direction to the production of projects with galleries, museums, foundations and art fairs across Europe, the Gulf and Asia, including TEFAF, BRAFA, KIAF, Art Busan and Luxembourg Art Week. This work took her to Doha, Cairo, Monaco, Palermo, Geneva, Luxembourg and Paris. In 2024, she co-curated Smoke Signals with Alex Reding at Nosbaum Reding in Luxembourg, and Abstract Writings, Abstract Thoughts with Miguel Gonçalves-Alver at the Wittockiana in Brussels. She also coordinated the permanent donation of artworks to the United Nations Office at Geneva.

In 2026, she founded Piédestal, an independent art consultancy and curatorial practice. Through Piédestal she works with the Maurice Verbaet Collection, a leading private collection of post-war Belgian art, strengthening the market presence and critical visibility of the estates in its care.

memymom® is the very foundation of everything Lisa does. Since 2004, she and her mother, the photographer Marilène Coolens, have worked together as memymom, an intergenerational collaboration rooted in family, memory and the transmission of knowledge between generations. It is the point of origin from which all her artistic, curatorial and institutional work emerged, shaping her enduring interest in presence, authorship and the conditions under which art is created and encountered. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Le Botanique in Brussels and the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, is held in collections including the Fondazione Imago Mundi and the Musée de la Photographie, and since 2022 has extended to the Bombay Beach Biennale in California, where their ongoing work The Fourth Hatch is sited. In 2012, the two founded memymom VZW, the Belgian non-profit within which TRIYAD is developed.

TRIYAD develops cultural projects where artistic vision and strategy meet. It works through long-term relationships with artists, institutions, collections and cultural partners, grounding each project in research, dialogue and meaningful cultural exchange. Every initiative is conceived with intellectual rigour, cultural sensitivity and an international outlook.

• Exhibitions: curatorial concepts and exhibition design, from first idea to installation

• Cultural partnerships: collaborations between artists, galleries, collections and institutions across Europe and the Gulf

• Institutional collaboration: international projects with museums, foundations and art fairs

• Audiences: texts, previews and encounters that open each project to its public