The Institut d'Art Contemporain is inviting Christophe Terlinden to create an artistic project in the glass structure of "La verrière", which occupies the interstitial space between the street and the art centre – and reciprocally.
Christophe Terlinden was born in 1969 in Etterbeek, Belgium. He lives and works in Brussels. His activity centres mainly on public space. In 2000, he launched the LUME project, consisting of words formed by lighted windows in office buildings in Brussels. In 2002 he designed a new European flag and a thousand-euro note featuring the Manneken Pis.
Terlinden works in a somewhat ironic mode, generally tailoring his activity to precise contexts in ways that reveal their characteristics, flaws and limits. Between political condemnation and poetic humour…
