Pieter Vermeulen

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Pieter Vermeulen (BE, 1983) is an independent curator and researcher. He studied Philosophy and Cultural Studies and held a position of guest professor in Philosophy and Philosophy of Art at University College Ghent – Faculty of Music and Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK). He is currently course director & lecturer at the Master of Research in Art & Design at St Lucas University College in Antwerp (BE), research assistant at Ghent University (S:PAM - Studies in Performing Arts & Media) and freelance curator and art critic. As both a curator and theorist, Pieter set up exhibition projects such as Fantastic Illusions (MOCA Shanghai/Buda Kortrijk, 2009), Resonance (Bund18/World Expo 2010 - Belgian Pavilion, Shanghai), Uncommonplaces (Extra City Antwerp, 2011), Façades (BE-PART Waregem, 2012), Perpetual Travellers (SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2013), Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams (Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, 2013), The Ship of Fools (Museum of Post-Digital Cultures, 2014), The Cloud of Unknowing (La Cambre, Brussels, 2015) and Canned Laughter - Humor in Crisis (2015 - ongoing). He participated in ICI’s Curatorial Intensive in New York City (2010) and was a curatorial resident at Vessel in Italy (2011). He moderated and co-/organized different international conferences and has articles published in many exhibition catalogues. Pieter has been working as a curator for De Nieuwe Opdrachtgevers (The New Patrons), providing professional guidance for public art commissions and as an editor for the contemporary art magazine 'this is tomorrow' (Belgium). He is co-founder & curator of POPPOSITIONS (off-fair Art Brussels since 2012), co-founder of the BORG biennial (Antwerp) and a regular contributor for several magazines such as Kunstkritikk, HART and DAMN° magazine.