ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network presents:

Curatorial Roundtable: Radical Harmony

Tuesday 14 October

1600 (BST) // 1500 (CEST) // 1100  (EDT) // 0800 (PDT)

Radical Harmony is the first significant exhibition of Neo-Impressionist works to take place at the National Gallery, London. Emerging from the final Impressionist exhibition in 1886, Neo-Impressionism lasted into the twentieth century—well past the death of its chief proponent, George Seurat—and extended beyond Paris to Saint-Tropez, Brussels, and the Netherlands. Early in the twentieth century, Helene Kröller-Müller (1869–1939) assembled perhaps the world’s greatest and most comprehensive collection of Neo-Impressionist paintings. This Curatorial Roundtable will bring together three of the key exhibition contributors to discuss how Radical Harmony celebrates the legacy of both the Neo-Impressionist movement and of Kröller-Müller as a leading collector of modern art. Our speakers will highlight the conception of the exhibition, installation, and process of selecting works, drawing from the Kröller-Müller Museum’s permanent collection as well as a judicious selection of loans from other European and American public and private collections. This roundtable discussion will explore the Neo-Impressionists’ art and society as well as the extent to which Kröller-Müller shaped the collecting and exhibiting of this movement, an impact still seen today. 

Julien Domercq is Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where he is responsible for nineteenth-century and old masters’ exhibitions. There he recently curated Kiefer/Van Gogh (2025), and co-curated Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504 (2024–25) and is currently developing a variety of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century projects. He previously worked at the National Gallery, London, where he co-curated After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art (2023) and Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell (2017–18).

Renske Cohen Tervaert is Curator at the Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, the Netherlands. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Amsterdam. She specialises in visual arts at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a specific interest in Vincent van Gogh and the history of collecting and the international art market. 

Annabel Bai Jackson is the Dorset Curatorial Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London, where she works on post-1800 paintings and the contemporary art programme. She previously worked at the Barbican Centre as a Curatorial Assistant and holds an MA in English (1900-present) from the University of Oxford. As a writer, she has contributed to Apollo, Sight & Sound, and The Oxford Review of Books.