Dieter Roelstraete (°1972), who has been at the M HKA - the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp - since 2003, is to become senior curator in Chicago as of February 2012. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is one of the more important museums in the US. It recently organised the American retrospective of the Flemish painter Luc Tuymans.

Roelstraete will be the Manilow Senior Curator at MCA Chicago. He succeeds the Italian, Francesco Bonami.

At M HKA Roelstraete has curated the exhibitions Emotion Pictures; Intertidal, a special exhibition of contemporary art from Vancouver; Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner - A Syntax of Dependency and the collective projects Academy: Learning from Art, The Projection Project and All That Is Solid Melts Into Air.

At the moment, too, there is an exhibition at the M HKA organised by him: A Rua (The Street), a thematic cross-section of the historically important contemporary art scene in Rio de Janeiro.

His most recent exhibition at M HKA will open in February 2012, the first large-scale retrospective of one of Belgium’s most famous artists, the cineaste Chantal Akerman. Roelstraete will maintain his links with the M HKA from a distance.

The M HKA will take on a new curator in 2012.