FRÉ ILGEN MA BIOGRAPHY March 2017
painter, sculptor, theorist, curator FRÉ ILGEN MA BIOGRAPHY March 2017 Born in Winterswijk, the Netherlands; lives and works in Berlin, Germany; EDUCATION 1968-1974 Atheneum A, lyceum, the Netherlands; 1974-1975 studies psychology at the Royal University Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands; 1975-1978 studies teaching painting/sculpture at the NLO ZWN, Delft, Netherlands; 1978-1981 studies fine art at the Academy for Fine Arts Rotterdam (BA); 1988 MA painting/sculpture at the AIVE Art Department, the Netherlands; EMS (Engineering Modeling System) certificate, AIVE Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 1981 - .. self-study in art history, art theory, various fields of science, psychology, philosophy (both Occidental and Oriental philosophy); ACTIVITIES 1985-1987 member of the board of several associations of artists, co-organizer of several exhibitions on sculpture; representative of these associations in several governmental art committees in The Hague and Utrecht; member of selection-committee for art in public spaces in Hazerswoude, Alphen a/d Rijn, Cromstrijen; from 1986 founder and president of the international active PRO Foundation; organizer of some 40 international exhibitions, symposia and multi-disciplinary conferences in various countries in Europe and the US; publisher of the PRO Magazine 1987-1991, and various catalogues; Coordinator Studium Generale, Academy for Industrial Design Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 1992-1994 Manager Communications European Design Centre Ltd, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; founding member of the Vilém Flusser Network
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