
3 September 2015
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Micky Piller has studied art history in Gent, with a focus on Flemish art from the 12th to 17th century. She graduated in theory formation on Marcel Duchamp. After graduating she became a journalist and art critic at Haagse Post, NRC Handelsblad and Het Financieele Dagblad. She wrote about artists, museums and corporate art collections at Gasunie, ABN and Peter Stuyvesant. She was also an acquisition advisor for Bouwfonds Kunststichting, an important Dutch corporate art collection. In 2002 she became the first curator at Escher in The Palace. She remained there until her retirement in 2015. She was responsible for some groundbreaking publications on Escher's life and work, among which: O Mundo Màgico de Escher for the large Brazilian exhibition in Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2010-11); Escher en de schatten uit de Islam, for the eponymous exhibition at Escher in The Palace and the Tropeninstituut in Amsterdam (2013); The Amazing World of M.C. Escher, for the eponymous exhibition at The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, de Dulwich Gallery in Londen and the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl (2015-16). Currently she manages the website Op weg naar de Kunst, with her husband Kristoffel Lieten.
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