Frederika Huys is head of conservation at the S.M.A.K. museum in Ghent, Belgium. She develops projects with artists to conserve different types of installation artworks (including variable aspects, performances, electronic and kinetic media). In her cooperation with artists she distinguished various methods for communication and documentation. A large part of her work is oriented on the investigation of new methods for the conservation of non-traditional materials and concepts.

She is a lecturer at the University of Ghent and was a founding member of INCCA. Frederika represented one of the five co-organisers of the EU project Inside Installations and was responsible for the research on Artist Participation. In addition to INCCA she is currently also on the steering committee of Packed (Platform for archiving and conserving artworks on electronic and digital supports). In 1997 she received an MA in Conservation from the Royal Academy for Arts and Crafts in Ghent. Before she started working for the S.M.A.K. museum she was a conservation researcher for the Flemish Ministry of Culture. In 2001 she obtained a MA in Cultural Management from University College of Ghent.