Dieter Roelstraete (Belgium) was trained as a philosopher at the University of Ghent and currently works as a curator at the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA. His curatorial projects there include Emotion Pictures; Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver; The Order of Things; and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art and The Projection Project. In 2005 he co-curated Honoré d’O: “The Quest” in the Belgian pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. He is an editor of Afterall as well as a contributing editor to A Prior Magazine and FR David, a journal published by De Appel arts centre in Amsterdam.
Roelstraete has written extensively on contemporary art and related philosophical issues; his publications include monographic essays and publications on the work of Luc Tuymans, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Steven Shearer, Mark Manders, Gabriel Kuri, Iannis Kounellis, and Roy Arden, whose survey show he curated at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2007. He is a tutor at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and De Appel Curatorial Training Program in Amsterdam.
A founding member of experimental free-prog-death-noise outfit SPASM, Dieter Roelstraete now lives and works in Antwerp (work) and Berlin (life).
http://www.muhka.be
http://www.afterall.org
http://www.aprior.org
http://www.deappel.nl/publications
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