Frédéric Wecker

Frédéric Wecker is an aesthetician and art critic.

He was an editor from 2002 to 2012.

From 2001 to 2004, he was in charge of the contemporary art section of the late generalist cultural magazine Sofa - the first magazine launched by what was to become the independent press group SO PRESS.

In 2002, with the R.F.E. - Revue Francophone d’Esthétique, he attempted to establish an academic journal of analytical aesthetics under the editorial direction of professors Jacques Morizot, Roger Pouivet and Jean-Pierre Cometti (four issues were published).

He founded and directed the “magazine critique d’art contemporain”, art 21, with 32 issues delivered from 2005 to 2012.

From 2009, he gradually reoriented his activities towards teaching philosophical aesthetics in art schools. First at HEAD in Geneva, then at ENSAD in Nancy (since 2012).

From 2012 to 2016, he was part of the Rosa Brux collective, which ran an artist-run space in Brussels.

He started reading comics in 2013.

He defended a philosophy thesis at the LHSP - Laboratoire d’Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie - Archives Henri Poincaré in 2016 under the supervision of Roger Pouivet.

In 2023-2025, he is co-organizing with art historian and critic Vanina Géré and the Rosa Brux group a cycle of exhibitions on the work of comic artist Chantal Montellier in several institutions (Mamco, Villa Arson…).