Frank Lubbers is an international exhibition organiser and art adviser based in Brussels. He has a degree in art education, and also studied art at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and philosophy at Amsterdam University. From 1983 to 1989 he was curator at the Fodor Museum, a department of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Thereafter he worked as deputy director and chief curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven until 2006 when he decided to pursue an independent career. Lubbers has organised exhibitions of numerous international contemporary artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, Rodney Graham, James Coleman, Mike Kelley, David Claerbout, Matt Mullican, Marlene Dumas, Rob Scholte, René Daniëls and Aernout Mik. Since 2006 he is the artistic director of Museum De Wieger in Deurne, the Netherlands, and currently he is co-organiser of NIET NORMAAL (Not Normal, Difference on Display) a large international contemporary art exhibition which will take place in Amsterdam in 2009. Furthermore he is an adviser on quality management for higher art education in the Netherlands. His most recent exhibition was From 60 to 7 — The Politics of the "private", which he curated in 2007 for the Henie Onstad Art Centre in Oslo. His personal favourite is Un coup de dés, an exhibition based on the poem by Mallarmé, for which he gathered artists as diverse and close as Marcel Broodthaers, Jan Vercruysse, Robert Barry, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham and Donald Judd. He is president of the artistic advisory board of Museum Jan Cunen in Oss and sits on the board of MU in Eindhoven, a multidisciplinary institute for international contemporary art, pop culture, design, new media and architecture. Furthermore he is president of Packed in Brussels, an institution for the preservation and cataloguing of art in electronic media.
