Photo (c) Hania Abassi for HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts)

Pieter Vermeulen (1983) is an art critic, curator and lecturer based in Belgium. He is currently affiliated to PXL-MAD (Media, Arts & Design faculty) in Hasselt (BE) and St Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp (BE), teaching courses in contemporary art & theory, artistic research and self-organization. In addition, he is the artistic director of the university gallery KRIEG?, where he made solo exhibitions together with Julien Meert, Pilvi Takala, Wesley Meuris, Ryan Gander, Grace Ndiritu, Assaf Gruber and The Book Lovers. 

His writings have been published in numerous contemporary art magazines and catalogues. Curated exhibitions include The Seduction of the Bureaucrat (Kunsthal Mechelen, 2023), Tell Me Louder (La Cambre/HISK/KANAL Centre Pompidou, 2022), The HISK Affair (HISK, Brussels, 2021), Perpetual Travellers (SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2013), Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams (Marres, Maastricht, 2013) and Uncommonplaces (Extra City, Antwerp, 2011). Vermeulen is a ICI Curatorial Intensive alumnus (New York City, 2011) and former resident at Vessel (Bari, 2011). Between 2013 and 2015, Pieter worked as a curator for De Nieuwe Opdrachtgevers (Les Nouveaux Commanditaires/The New Patrons), providing professional mediation for public art commissions.

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Contact: info[ at ]pietervermeulen.be