Atelier Jade Niklai is a research-based curatorial practice, realising unique creative projects with culturally curious individuals and organisations. It is founded by Jade Niklai, a trained art historian and international curator with over 25 years of institutional, collaborative and independent experience.

Jade Niklai is a curator of modern and contemporary art, architecture and design. She commissions and produces cultural projects with an interest in public discourse and urbanism, social politics and memory practices. Her programs are underscored by compelling conversations and collaborations, ranging from the emerging to the established.

Jade has held curatorial positions at The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art (Budapest / Vienna / Aachen), The Architecture Foundation (London) and Foster + Partners (London). She trained at The Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Sydney Biennale. As an institutional curator, she has delivered over 50 major exhibitions, 30 new art commissions, 25 publications and hundreds of public events.

Since 2013 Jade works as an independent consultant, advising creative luxury brands, such as LVMH’s Espace Louis Vuitton (Paris / Munich) and urban developers, including Renzo Piano’s Paddington Square (London) on public art, collection building and cultural communication strategies.

From 2010 to 2022 Jade was founding director and chief curator of Blood Mountain Foundation: an independent research and curatorial platform based in Vienna/Budapest and focusing on the cultural past, present and potential of Central Europe.

Jade holds a BA in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and an MA in Curatorship from the University of Melbourne. She sits on the editorial board of readingdesign.org and is a member of industry peer bodies, including ICOM and Design Institute of Australia.

Born in Hungary and raised in Australia, Jade studied in the UK and trained in the US. She conducts daily life and work in English, Hungarian, French and German. Since 2020 Jade pursues her curatorial and consultancy practice from Melbourne/Naarm, Australia.