Jan De Cock is a contemporary Belgian visual artist who was educated in both Ghent and Brussels. De Cock entered the 2003 Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge ("Prize for Young Belgian Painters")competition. The artist is the first living Belgium artist to get an exhibition in MoMA. He is also only the second Belgian artist to have an exhibition in Tate Modern after Luc Tuymans. Jan De Cock is characteristically known to create large structures which refer to early modernist and suprematist sculpture and architecture. The artist likes to search for specific locations to make temporary installations, sometimes combined with the historical artwork present at the spot. He focuses on the interaction between space, work and the visitor.