Till-Holger Borchert (born 4 January 1967,[1]inHamburg) is a German art historian and writer specialising in 14th and 15th-century art. He has been the chief curator of the Groeningemuseum and Arentshuis museums in Bruges, Belgium, between 2003 and 2014.[2] In December 2014, he was appointed as director of the Municipal Museums in Bruges.[3] In this role he initiated a radical reorganisation of the institution and laid the foundation for the renewal of infrastructure like the ticketing facility of the Gruuthusemuseum, a new storage, and the exhibition park BRUSK designed by architect Paul Robbrecht. In November 2021 he was appointed as new director of the Suermondt Ludwig MuseuminAachen, a position he resumed in April 2022.[4]
He has been teaching in Europe and the US[5] and curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the Frick Collection in New York and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid,[6] and "Memling: Rinascimento fiammingo" in Rome in 2014/15.[7] He was also one of the leading curators of the Bruges Triennial for contemporary art and architecture[8] and has been co-curator of the exhibition "Van Eyck An Optical Revolution" in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent in 2020. [9]
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