Léon Kruijswijk (b. 1989, the Netherlands) is Performance Curator at Mudam – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg since May 2025. Prior to this position, he was Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, and has worked as a freelance curator and writer. He lives and works in Luxembourg and Berlin.

Rooted in visual arts, his curatorial practice moves across performance, dance, experimental music, literature, and film, as he navigates themes on the intersection of queer and gender theory, art and politics, and institutional critique.

At Mudam Luxembourg, Kruijswijk is working on a performance series titled A Journey. Unfolding throughout 2026, it takes the concept of a journey as a method and metaphor to address questions of migration, technological progression and embodied interpretation. The series includes performances by Sojung Jun, Ivan Cheng, Mohamed Toukabri and SERAFINE1369. In addition, he is curating a large mid-career survey of the work of Simon Fujiwara, set to open in March 2026, as well as an exhibition of newly commissioned work by Christine Sun Kim, scheduled for September 2026.

As a Curator at KW, he has curated large-scale performances of Alexis Blake, Michele Rizzo and Billy Bultheel & James Richards, and he has (co-)curated exhibitions with artists including BLESS, Coco Fusco, Luiz Roque, Sung Tieu, Oraib Toukan and Miloš Trakilović. In his position as Assistant Curator at KW, he has worked on exhibitions of Michael Stevenson, Peter Friedl, Iman Issa, Leonilson, Michel Majerus and David Wojnarowicz. 

As a freelancer, Kruijswijk has worked frequently with Göksu Kunak. He has also written for various art platforms like As A Journal, TextWork and Metropolis M, and for artists publications, among others of Edith Dekyndt and Jaanus Samma. He obtained his MA degrees in “Museum Studies” and “Art History: Contemporary Art & Theory” at the University of Amsterdam.