Pierre Courtin, director of Duplex 100m² Gallery in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, will lecture at the LSU School of Art at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, in the Design Building Auditorium (room 103).

Courtin likes to think, act, and work with his hands. With a sense of humor, he multitasks and embodies different jobs—gallery director, collector, artist, consultant, and curator. Each one of these activities is embodied, questioned, and has powerful artistic and political engagement. Courtin offers experiment formats in a sharing economy. Since 2004, he’s headquartered in Sarajevo, where he opened a gallery or rather, “a singular platform for artistic encounters.

An exhibition curated by Courtin, Conquer the Beauty: Emerging Art from Bosnia & Herzegovina, will be on display at the Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 9 through May 8, 2016. An opening reception will be held April 9, 6–9 p.m.

About Duplex 100m²

Since 2004, Duplex 100m² has supported the art scene of Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina and the Balkans. The gallery hosts numerous artists, enabling the production, exhibition, and presentation of their works. Exhibitions are planned and organized on the local, regional, and international level, enhancing the visibility of art in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond, especially through contemporary art fairs. The gallery helps make connections among numerous contemporary art actors—artists, curators, institutional representatives, and private partners—all with the aim of fostering new projects and establishing an unusual platform of artistic encounters.

Duplex 100m² is expanding its activities in a space that also serves as an exhibition space, manufacturing shop, agency for project design and development, showroom for hosting art lovers and collectors, as well as a space of encounters and actions.