1. Chris Dercon studied History of Art at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, then Theatre Research and Film Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
15 Facts About Chris Dercon
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Chris Dercon began his career as a teaching assistant at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in the Department of Theatre Research where he initiated the Theatre Tape Festival.
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Chris Dercon was then appointed to his first directorship at Witte de With in Rotterdam, where he worked until 1995.
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From 2003 to 2011 Chris Dercon served as the director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
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Chris Dercon was appointed director of the Tate Modern in London in 2011 where he stayed until 2016.
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Whilst at Tate Modern, Chris Dercon sat on the committee which chose Ferran Barenblit to be the new Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015.
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Chris Dercon experienced the fierce opposition of part of the Berlin scene, that considered that Dercon's appointment was a betrayal of the theater's roots.
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Klaus Lederer, Berlin's senator for culture, said in a statement that Chris Dercon failed in his vision for the Volksbuhne.
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From 2019 Chris Dercon was the President of the Association of French National Museums-Grand Palais for an initial five-year term, where he oversaw the renovation of the Grand Palais, working with Francois Chatillon.
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Chris Dercon served on the jury which selected Kapwani Kiwanga as winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2020.
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In 2022, Chris Dercon was appointed director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain.
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Chris Dercon currently serves as a board member for Wiels in Brussels, the Fondation d'Entreprise Galeries Lafayette in Paris, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany, the Visual Arts and Museums Commissions of the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Chris Dercon is a member of the International Council of the Museum Berggruen.
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Chris Dercon has been a member of film festival juries at Brussels, Rotterdam, Locarno and Sarajevo.
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Since 2018, Chris Dercon has been in a relationship with actress Birte Carolin von Knoblauch.