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Chris Dercon
Director, Tate Modern
Chris Dercon is an art historian, a documentary filmmaker and cultural producer. After working as program director of PS1 Museum in New York, he became director of Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam in 1990 and then Museum Boijmans Van Veuningen, Rotterdam in 1993.
Exhibitions included “unpacking Europe” curated with Salah Hassan with non Western Artists including A.O. Koraichi. In 2003 he became director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich where he organised the exhibition of Andreas Gusky that toured to Istanbul and Sharjah.
In 2010, an exhibition of Arab ancient, modern and contemporary art entitled “The Future of Tradition – The Tradition of Future”, looked back at the exhibition conducted 100 years before on Islamic art and included artists such as Farmafanian, Choucair, Raad, Attia, Shardoudy, Feyzdjou, an installation by Koraichi and films by Mounira Solh among Islamic artefacts.
In Munich, Dercon also produced exhibitions on architecture, design and fashion, including projects by architects Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron. In addition he has written about and worked in television and film.
In 2009 the Whitechapel gallery published his article ‘Indiana Jones and the Ruin of the private. Dercon gives lectures around the world including Sha Rjah, Cairo, Casablanca, and most recently in Doha, Dubai and Johannesburg, on the subject of new audiences.
In April 2011 Dercon joined the team of Tate Modern as its director in London, which Dercon considers as an art movement by itself.
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