Koen Brams (b. 1964, Belgium) was the director of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (2000-2010). Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the art magazine De Witte Raaf (1991-2000). He published the book ‘The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists’ (2000), and articles such as ‘Interdisciplinariteit, Heterogeniteit, Kunst in Crisis’ (2003), and ‘Internationaliteit’ in an annual report of the Amsterdam Fund for the Visual Arts. In 2000 he initiated an in-depth research of the work of Jef Cornelis. He is currently, together with Dirk Pültau, undertaking a number of research projects relating to an alternative history of art in Belgium since the seventies .