Hilde Teerlinck

Who is Hilde Teerlinck?

Hilde Teerlinck is a Belgian curator, and the current director of the Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, in Dunkirk, France.

Hilde Teerlinck was artistic director of the Barcelona Pavilion where she invited artists such as Jeff Wall, Panamarenko, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster to create site-specific works for this landmark building.

After a short stay in Perpignan, she went on to become the director of the Centre Rhenian d'Art Contemporain of Alsace in Altkirch in 2002, where she developed a project aiming at opening this place, isolated in the countryside, to a wider audience. This enabled her to present the work of artists including On Kawara, Rineke Dijkstra, Doug Aitken, Cindy Sherman and Franz West, as well as younger artists, such as Sven t’Jolle, Andro Wekua, and Harmony Korine. At the same time she remained active as an art-critic and a free-lance curator.

Teerlinck has been the director of the Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais in Dunkirk since 2006. The FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais is a public collection of international contemporary art, containing works of minimal and conceptual art by Bruce Nauman, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and Arte Povera, as well as contemporary artists including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Maurizio Cattelan, Martin Creed and John M. Armleder.