Charlemagne Palestine (1947, US) lives and works in Brussels. He has released more than 20 solo albums and has performed all around the world in the last 40 years. His work has been exhibited internationally at public and private institutions including: the Venice Biennale, Italy; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; the Long Beach Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Documenta 8, Kassel; the Walker Art center, Minneapolis; the Art Institute of Chicago; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; and Wiels, Bruxelles. In 2014, he participated in the Whitney Biennial and performed with Simone Forti at MoMA in New York and at the Louvre in Paris.