Dirk Snauwaert

Dirk Snauwaert is founding and artistic director of WIELS in Brussels. Before, he was co-artistic director of the Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne, where he programmed exhibitions and developed the FRAC Rhône-Alpes collection. He was director of the Kunstverein Munich from 1996 to 2001. From 1989 to 1995, he was curator of contemporary art at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (now BOZAR). He lectures and publishes regularly on art and visual culture. At WIELS, he curated solo exhibitions of Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Luc Tuymans, Francis Alÿs, David Claerbout, Rosemarie Trockel, Jeremy Deller, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Walter Swennen, Ana Torfs, Stan Douglas, Edith Dekyndt and Duncan Campbell; and the group exhibitions 'Expats and Clandestines' and 'ReSiDuE' with Agata Jastrząbek. He also curated the Belgian pavilion of Jef Geys for the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), "Atopolis", an international group exhibition organised in collaboration with Mons 2015 - Cultural Capital of Europe, and "Ideolect", a thematic exhibition for the Bruges Poetry Festival in 2010.