Pieter Vermeulen

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 Ghent University (Faculty of Music) and the Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK). He is currently working as the course director and lecturer at the Master of Research in Art & Design at St Lucas University in Antwerp (BE), as research assistant at Ghent University (S:PAM - Studies in Performing Arts & Media) and as a freelance curator and art critic.
Both a curator and theorist, Vermeulen 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) and The Cloud of Unknowing (La Cambre, Brussels, 2015). 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. Vermeulen is also active as a curator for De Nieuwe Opdrachtgevers (The New Patrons), providing professional guidance for public art commissions, as a co-founder & curator of POPPOSITIONS Off-Fair Art Brussels since 2012, co-founder of the BORG biennial (Antwerp), editor for the contemporary art magazine 'this is tomorrow' (Belgium) and he is a regular contributor for several magazines.