Biography

Chris Dercon is the President of the Rmn – Grand Palais since the 1st of January 2019. He is a Belgian art historian and curator, specialist in relations between ancient art and contemporary art. He has an international career and is fluent in four languages.
Chris Dercon is a recognized figure in the world of art and has had an important role in the direction and development of many major international museums for the last 30 years.
He successively ensured the direction of the following cultural establishments since the nineties: the Witte de With, the Center of Contemporary Art, in Rotterdam, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in Rotterdam also, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Tate Modern in London and the Berlin Volksbühne Theater.

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