Pieter Vermeulen (1983) is an art critic, lecturer, researcher and curator. He is currently affiliated to PXL-MAD (Media, Arts & Design faculty) in Hasselt, Belgium, where he teaches contemporary art & theory and oversees the university gallery KRIEG. Additionally, he teaches courses in artistic research, art theory and self-organization at St Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp. Pieter is also active as staff writer for the Belgian contemporary art magazines HART and Rekto:Verso.
After his graduation in Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Vermeulen worked at the School of Arts (KASK/Conservatorium) in Ghent, BE (2008-2011), Ghent University - S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media) (2013-2017) and the Master of Research in Art & Design at St Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp, BE (2014-2019). In those capacities, he moderated and co-/organized several international conferences and research seminars. In 2019, he was a guest tutor at the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin. In 2021, he got appointed as curator for the postgraduate program at HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent (BE).
As a curator, Pieter set up exhibition projects at MOCA Shanghai (CN)/Buda Kortrijk (BE) (2009), Bund18/World Expo 2010 - Belgian Pavilion, Shanghai (CN) (2010), Extra City Antwerp (BE) (2011), BE-PART Waregem (BE) (2012), SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (DE) (2013), Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (NL) (2013), Museum of Post-Digital Cultures (CH) (2014), La Cambre, Brussels (BE) (2015), KRIEG, Hasselt (BE) (2021), among other venues. Pieter Vermeulen is an alumnus of the ICI Curatorial Intensive (New York City, 2011) and former resident at Vessel (Bari, 2011). Between 2013 and 2015, Pieter worked as a curator for De Nieuwe Opdrachtgevers (The New Patrons), providing professional mediation for public art commissions. He is the co-founder of POPPOSITIONS (off-fair in Brussels since 2012) and the BORG biennial in Antwerp (2014-2018). His articles are published in numerous exhibition catalogues and magazines.