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Before developing her art consultancy and management activities, Sabine Taevernier worked for 5 years as an independent curator specialized in Belgian art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She has, in this respect, organized collaborative exhibitions with the museums of Ghent, Antwerp, Milano, Frankfurt and Rotterdam, dedicated to Symbolism, Expressionism and especially James Ensor. It is in this context that she was hired by Christie’s in 1988 in order to handle the Belgian sales in the period between 1988 and 1990. Based in Brussels, she stayed with Christie’s for 10 years as an expert in the Impressionist and Modern and the Contemporary department. She acquired expertise through her responsibilities in connection with the Goldschmidt auction (Modern art, Belgian-French), the liquidation of the Galerie Brachot (Surrealism and Contemporary art), the Peeters auction (Broodthaers and Pop Art) and multiple individual sales of works.

She established her independent activity in 1998 and resumed her curatorial activities by organizing an exhibition on Cobra and collaborating with exhibitions dedicated to James Ensor. As a specialist in the artist, she created in 2002 the Ensor Advisory Committee.  Since 2005 she is affiliated as an expert to the Belgian Chamber of Art experts. In May 2019 she was apointed vicepresident of the Cultural Heritage Counsel of Flanders, Belgium (Topstukkenraad).

Educated in both French and Dutch, she completed her studies as a graduate in History of Art from the University of Leuven (KUL) in 1980. She has acquired knowledge of English as well as international experience as an expert travelling between Belgium, London and New York.

Anouck Clissen started her career at Mu.ZEE in Ostend as a curator and scientific assistant. For five years, she was responsible for the coordination of, and the scientific writing on, the exhibitions Jean Brusselmans, Victor  Servranckx. The 1920s  and E.L.T. Mesens.  Dada and Surrealism in Brussels, Paris and London.  In this way she was able to acquire a thorough knowledge of the pre-war, post-war and contemporary Belgian art. After, she spent three years at the Antwerp based Maurice Verbaet Art Center, where she managed all exhibitions. Today she is curating the Belfius Art Collection, a position which she combines with her collection management activity as an assistant to Sabine Taevernier.

She is trilingual Dutch, French and English, with a good knowledge of Italian. In 2009, she obtained her Master’s degree in History of Art at the University of Ghent (Ugent).