Dieter Roelstraete was trained as a philosopher at the University of Ghent and currently works as a curator at the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA. His curatorial projects there include Emotion Pictures; Intertidal, a survey show of contemporary art from Vancouver; The Order of Things; and the collaborative projects Academy: Learning from Art; The Projection Project; and All That is Solid Melts Into Air. In 2005 he co-curated Honoré d’O: The Quest in the Belgian pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale; he has also curated exhibitions in Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. He is an editor of Afterall and FR David, a journal published by De Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, as well as a contributing editor to A Prior Magazine.
Roelstraete has published extensively on contemporary art and related philosophical issues in numerous catalogues and magazines; his most recent book Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking, is forthcoming from Afterall Books and MIT Press. He lives in Berlin.
