PHILIPPE VANDENBERG

Philippe Vandenberg graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium, with a degree in Literature and the History of Art. By the time of his first solo exhibition in New York in 1986, he was already well known in Europe. One of Belgium’s leading contemporary artists, his work was acquired by Guggenheim Museum and a great many other public collections. Vandenberg’s oeuvre was also the subject of exhibitions in major international galleries and museums during his lifetime, including retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K) in Ghent, Belgium (1995) and the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MuHKA) in Antwerp, Belgium (1999). Important posthumous exhibitions have been held at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg, the Netherlands (2012), the Maison Rouge in Paris, France (2014), and at Hauser & Wirth in London (2013) and Zurich (2014).