A graduate in Philosophy and History (UCL) and Art History (ULB), he wrote his thesis on the furniture of Henry van de Velde. He has worked at the Horta Museum since 2014 and has been its curator and director since 2018. At the same time, he is a professor at the UDA-UCL and has published numerous articles and books on architecture, applied arts and the question of ornament and decoration, also between 1850 and 1950. He became president of the Art Nouveau Network in 2021.
Benjamin Zurstrassen
