Filip Gilissen (born 1980 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian artist. [1] He has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (MUHKA) [2] and Etablissement d'en Face [3] (Brussels). He has participated in group exhibitions at Life Sport (Athens) [4] Panicz (Ostend), [5] Fotomuseum Winterthur, [6] Bucharest Biennale, [7] LISTE Performance Project (Basel), [8] Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, [9] Kunsthalle Nürnberg, [10] Liverpool Biennial, [11] and MARTa Herford [12] [ citation needed ]and Museum Voorlinden [13] .
Gilissen is the co-curator of Cosmopolitanissimo [14] a research project about class and taste [15] . This multifaceted, anonymous series has included projects in unusual spaces such as a high-speed train [16] , a hotel lounge [17] , a club [18] . Contrastissimo has produced a cast of 7 fictional characters that were exhibited at Kunsthalle Nürnberg [19] and at 4649 Gallery in Tokyo [20] .