Dirk Schnauwaert is an art historian and the Director of the Kunstverein in Munich. As curator of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, he initiated an exhibition on the history of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp, the first gallery exhibiting Panamarenko's work. Schnauwaert has written extensively on artists from the European Belgian Neo-Avantgarde of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Marcel Broodthaers and Jef Geys, in addition to other contemporary artists, including Allan Sekula and Lawrence Weiner.