Katarina Serulus (she/her) is an independent design historian and curator. studied art history and design cultures at the KU Leuven and the VU Amsterdam. In 2016 she defended at the University of Antwerp her PhD thesis entitled Design & Politics: The Public Promotion of Industrial Design in Postwar Belgium (1950-1986) that was published in 2018 by the Leuven University Press. Her research interests include national discourses, gender, transnational networks, club culture and non-disciplinary practices in the field of design, architecture and visual culture. She was an Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2020-2021) and project manager at the Flanders Architecture Institute in Antwerp (2017-2023) where she was responsible for the policy on design archives and initiated the project Wiki Women Design (2020). She is member of the Architecture, Interiority, Inhabitation (A2I) research group and Research Fellow at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture.

Serulus also curated several design exhibitions. She was the curator of the exhibition Panorama. A History of Modern Design in Belgium (Design Museum Brussels, 2017) and Designing the Night. Graphic Design and Belgian Club Culture 1970-2000 (Design Museum Brussels, 2019). She co-curated the exhibition Léon Stynen, architect (1899-1990) with Bart Tritsmans (Flanders Architecture Institute Antwerp, 2018) and co-curated the first comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 to Today together with Cat Rossi and Jochen Eisenbrand that opened at the Vitra Design Museum in 2018 and toured internationally until 2022. Her latest exhibition Untold Stories. Women Designers in Belgium, 1880-1980 (Design Museum Brussels, 2024-2025) which she co-curated with Javier Gimeno-Martinez and Marjan Sterckx, brought together work by more than 50 women designers and makers in Belgium for the first time.

Most recently, she has been collaborating with Cat Rossi on the forthcoming edited volume Beyond the Dancefloor: Club Culture, Design, and Nightlife, set to be published by Bloomsbury in 2026.