Apolline Malevez is an art historian and postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, where she is a member of the research group The Inside Story. Art & Interior 1750-1950. Her research project Support Systems: the Hidden Labour behind Art Making (Belgium, 1880-1920) explores relationships which enabled and sustained artists’ work and careers in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Belgium. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast (2022). Her dissertation focused on representations of domestic interiors in Belgium at the end of the 19th century, which she studied from a gender perspective. With Bart Ooghe, Thijs Dekeukeleire and Jonas Roelens, she is the co-curator of the exhibition Queer Belgian Art (1400-1950), which will take place at the Ghent Fine Arts Museum in 2027.