Dirk Meylaerts is Director of Production at Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette.

After studying philosophy, Dirk Meylaerts went on an international tour as a dancer with the company of choreographer Jan Fabre in a piece entitled "The power of tetanic madness".  At the age of 23, he decided to become a furniture designer. After finishing his cabinetmaking studies at the Arts et Métiers in Brussels, he works for two years for a German master cabinetmaker before opening his first workshop where he works on unique pieces for private clients. He also develops products for Exki and even chocolate for Pierre Marcolini. In 2006, he founded D&A Lab, a project around design and art, where limited editions are produced and sold in collaboration with internationally renowned artists.

The human body, it is often said, is conspicuously absent in the work of the Norwegian German artist Yngve Holen. Yet everywhere in his oeuvre, the implications of the body, its subjectivity, messy corporeality, and imbrications in a culture of consumption, are evoked.

Disemboweled washing machines, bisected water coolers, MRI-scanned and 3D-printed smashed cell phones: Holen has used them all in previous works. His predilection for things that are at one remove from the humans who make, buy, or use them is shaped by an interest in the technologies that define our everyday surroundings, from transportation and plastic surgery to industrial food production and security systems. He studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt from which he graduated in 2010. In 2016, a monographic exhibition VERTICALSEAT is dedicated to his work at the Kunsthalle Basel and in 2018 he exhibit at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.