Chris Dercon

Belgian-born Chris Dercon is Director at the „Haus der Kunst" in Munich.

After his study of Art History and Performing Arts and Film Theory in the Netherlands he worked at the Gallery Baronian-Lambert in Ghent. Disappointed of the cynics of the commercial art market, Dercon started free-lancing for Belgian radio and television networks, where he produced amongst others documentaries about Charles Atlas or Karole Armitage. 1988 he became Director of Program at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, where he presented artists like Catherine Beaugrand.

After a transfer to Witte de With and several other responsibility-filled jobs in the 1990ies he became Director at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2003.