For more than thirty-five years, Jan Fabre (b. 1958, Antwerp) has played a significant role as a visual artist, theather-maker and author.  Fabre’s innovative and diverse practice is focused on the centrality of the body in its physiological, intellectual and symbolic aspects and he endeavours to unlock the secret of ‘beauty’ as well as investigate the interchange between art and science, man and animal, life and death. He is the first living contemporary artist to have exhibited at the Louvre, and to have been invited to hold a solo show at the State Heritage Museum in Saint Petersburg.  Jan Fabre lives and works in Antwerp.