Philippe Pirotte

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Based in Antwerp, Belgium, Pirotte is a freelance curator, a senior advisor at the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam, and, until recently, the director of the internationally renowned Kunsthalle Bern, in Switzerland. He was also the founding director of the contemporary art center objectif_exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium. At Kunsthalle Bern, Pirotte organized solo exhibitions, by artists such as Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Owen Land, Oscar Tuazon, Jutta Koether, Allan Kaprow, and Corey McCorkle, and group shows, including the trilogy The Idea of Africa (re-invented) and Voids - A Retrospective of Empty Exhibitions. Among his accomplishments as a freelance curator, he co-organized the presentation of Luc Tuymans - Mwana Kitoko (Beautiful White Man) in the Belgian Pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennial and, more recently, he co-curated Frames and Documents, Conceptualist Practices: Selections from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection for the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation in Miami. Since june 2012 is adjunct senior curator at BAM/PFA, Pirotte will organize special exhibitions and participate in collections development for the institution.

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VII Bienal de Montreal 2016

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Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection

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