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Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost was born in Lille, France, in 1978 and is currently based in Brussels, Belgium. She received her BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2002 and studied towards her MFA at Goldsmiths’ College, London. She also took part in the LUX Associate Artists Programme. Prouvost won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013.

Aileen Burns

Aileen Burns, together with Johan Lundh, has been Co-Executive Director at Remai Modern in Saskatoon since 2020. She has held similar positions at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland. As a director by profession but an exhibition-maker at heart, she has curated and co-curated more than 50 exhibitions, including the Turner Prize exhibition with Prouvost in 2013. Other artists she has worked closely with include Gordon Bennett, Ruth Buchanan, Céline Condorelli, D Harding, Christine Sun Kim, Karrabing Film Collective, P. Staff, Amalia Pica, Slavs and Tatars, Hito Steyerl, and Haegue Yang. She studied at Columbia University, New York City in 2010. Prior to that, she completed her BA in Art History and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.