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 [4] (Athens), Panicz [5] (Ostend), Fotomuseum Winterthur [6] , Bucharest Biennale [7] , LISTE Performance Project [8] (Basel), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art [9] (Rotterdam), Kunsthalle Nürnberg [10] , Liverpool Biennial [11] , MARTa Herford [12] [ citation needed ],and Museum Voorlinden [13] (The Hague).
Gilissen is the co-curator of Contrastissimo a research project about class and taste [14] . This multifaceted, anonymous series [15] has included projects in unusual spaces such as a nightclub [16] ,a hotel lounge [17] ,and a high-speed train between Brussels and Paris [18] .Contrastissimo has produced a cast of 7 fictional characters that were exhibited at Kunsthalle Nürnberg [19] and at 4649 in Tokyo [20] .