Elles x Paris Photo

A program dedicated to women photographers, supported by the French Ministry of Culture.

Curator Devrim Bayar has been invited to create the Elles × Paris Photo path dedicated to women artists, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture. Since it was created in 2018, Elles x Paris Photo programme has increased the representation of women artists at the fair from 20% to 38%.

Devrim Bayar is currently senior curator of the KANAL – Centre Pompidou, a new museum of modern and contemporary art spanning 35,000 m² in Brussels which is scheduled to open in 2026.

© Nanténé Traoré, Devrim Bayar - Portrait

Devrim Bayar, curator of
Elles × Paris Photo 2025

Senior Curator at KANAL - Centre Pompidou

Previously she was curator at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, where she curated the exhibitions of Wolfgang Tillmans, R.H. Quaytman, Jacqueline de Jong, Huguette Caland, René Daniëls, Sammy Baloji, Pierre Leguillon, Thomas Bayrle, Daan van Golden, Helena Almeida, among other artists, as well as group shows, such as Something Stronger Than Me* exploring recent developments in collaborative art practices.

Devrim Bayar also co-curated a series of exhibitions Un-Scene featuring emerging artists working in Belgium. Her independent curatorial projects include the multi-disciplinary festival Indiscipline at Palais de Tokyo (2016), the Geneva Biennale — Sculpture Garden (2022) and Poésie contre fin du monde conceived with French artist Ethan Assouline as a sort of experimental community library in Montpellier (2024).

She is an author and editor of numerous publications and exhibitions catalogues, with recent essays on Walter Pfeiffer (Swiss Institute/Pacific, 2025) and Mimosa Echard (Mousse Publishing, 2025).

Devrim Bayar recently initiated the Brussels Ass Book Fair, an independent book fair featuring productions from LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as a music programme dedicated to sound productions by multidisciplinary artists broadcasted on community radio Kiosk.