main partner
15—18.04.27 Brussels Expo
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A.Gorgi Gallery / Dürst Britt & Mayhew / Galerie Krinzinger / Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder / NADJA VILENNE / sans titre / SPAZIO NOBILE GALLERY / Wouters Gallery
Horizons offers galleries the opportunity to present a project by a single artist, whether an installation, video work, sound piece, light piece, series of works, or another distinctive artistic project that does not naturally fit within a regular booth setting. The work does not need to have been created specifically for this section. It may also be a piece previously shown in a historical exhibition or context that, through its inclusion in Horizons, takes on a new narrative. The selected works should be pioneering, challenge conventions, and help shape new horizons, encouraging viewers to look beyond the familiar. All works will be presented in Hall 6 in a curated setting.
For the second edition of Horizons, Art Brussels welcomes Chris Dercon, General Director of Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, as curator of the section at Art Brussels 2027.
Meet Chris Dercon, Curator of Horizons 2027
In this exclusive interview, Chris Dercon reflects on the Fondation Cartier’s new building in Paris, its inaugural exhibition and the evolving role of its collection. He also shares his vision for Horizons 2027, offering insight into the ideas, perspectives and artistic practices that will shape the section’s second edition.
Watch the interview to discover Chris Dercon’s vision for Horizons 2027.
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Chris Dercon is a Belgium art historian, curator, and museum director born in Lier in Belgium in 1958.
He studied at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in History of Art, Theatre Research and Film Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He began his career as a teaching assistant at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in the Department of Theatre Research. In 1980 he worked as an assistant curator at the Gemeentemuseum The Hague on a project about the history of world exhibitions and textiles. Starting in 1981 till 1983 he was a collaborator at the Galerie Baronian-Lambert in Ghent. As of 1982, he worked as a free-lance art critic for the Standaard newspaper, and as a free-lance collaborator for Belgian Radio and Television both in Brussels. From 1983 onwards, he also began teaching video and cinema at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, and at the Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten, St Lukas Brussels. In 1988 he was appointed program director at the institute for contemporary Art PS1 New York where he worked until 1990. He was then appointed to his first directorship at the Witte de With center for contemporary art in Rotterdam recently renamed as the Melly Kunstinstitut, where he worked until 1995. From 1996 to 2003 he served as director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. From 2003 to 2011 he is the director of the Haus der Kunst in Munchen He is appointed director of the Tate Modern in 2011 where he stays till 2016. He is then appointed general director of the Volksbuhne Berlin from 2017 until 2018. From 2019 to 2023 he was the president of the Association of French National Museums-Grand Palais where he was overseeing the renovation of the Grand Palais. He became Managing Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in June of 2023.
As a museum director he has worked and published extensively on the future of museums, working with renowned architects Rem Koolhaas, Robbrecht en Daem, Herzog and De Meuron, Gunther Vogt and Francis Kéré. In Paris, he worked with Francois Chatillon on the renovation of the Grand Palais completed in 2024. He is currently working on the project of the new Fondation Cartier with Jean Nouvel as of 2022.