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- Chris Dercon was born on July 30, 1958 in Lier, Flanders, Belgium. He is a director and actor, known for Sometimes It Works, Sometimes It Doesn't (1983), Babs (2000) and Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect (2008).
- Dercon studied History of Art at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden then Theatre Research and Film Theory at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- Dercon served on the jury which selected Kapwani Kiwanga as winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2020.
- In 1980 he worked as an assistant curator at the Gemeentemuseum The Hague on a project about the history of world exhibitions and textiles.
- Dercon 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.
- Dercon was appointed director of the Tate Modern in London in 2011 where he stayed until 2016. In his position as Tate Modern director, he succeeded Vicente Todoli ranking second to Sir Nicholas Serota. During his tenure, he oversaw the opening of the museum's first dedicated space to live art and installations as part of plans to explore new areas of visual culture like video, photography and performance art.
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