Lives and works in Barcelona
CEO/artistic director of the Han Nefkens Foundation - Barcelona.
Hilde Teerlinck began her career as the artistic director of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion where she invited artists such as Jeff Wall, Panamarenko, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster to create site-specific works for this landmark building.
After a short stay in Perpignan where she ran a local art centre, she went on to become the director of the Centre Rhenian d'Art Contemporain (CRAC) of Alsace in Altkirch in 2002. Later, Teerlinck was the director of the Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais (FRAC NPDC) in Dunkirk (2006-2014). She constructed the FRAC’s emblematic new building (AP2) with the architects Lacaton & Vassal. Under her direction, the collection was shown worldwide with exhibitions in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark…ao.
In 2015, along with Lorenzo Benedetti, Phillip Van Den Bossche, and Patrick Ronse, she co-curatedBeyond Borders, the fifth Beaufort Triennial. She also worked as a curator at large for the Extra-Muros projects and theModulesprogramme of the Palais de Tokyo, and curated their participation in the Biennale of Lyon.
In 2016, she organised a retrospective exhibition of the work of the Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi for Le Magasin in Grenoble. She was one of the curators of Superflex’ twentieth anniversary show, at the Charlottenborg Art Museum.
Teerlinck is also, and has been for several years, a board member of the Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, Openluchtmuseum Middelheim, Antwerpen and Koning Boudewijnstichting, Brussels, amongst others. She intensively collaborates with different art schools and studio programmes.
Since, She has been the CEO and artistic director of the Han Nekfens Foundation in Barcelona.The Han Nefkens Foundation supports emerging and mid-career video artists by financing production and providing them with an international platform. An extensive worldwide network of museums, art institutions and biennales enables the Foundation to present the new videos productions to a diverse and global audience.
Currently, She is also curating the Belgian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2022 with artist Francis Alÿs.