French Member of Parliament

Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon is co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Southampton Law School of law, where she held the chair in IT law and Data Governance until 2022. She was Principal Legal Engineer at Immuta Research for six years. Sophie is the author and co-author of several legal articles, chapters and books on data protection and privacy. She has been Editor-in-chief of the Computer Law and Security Review, a leading international journal of technology law, for almost a decade and is now Honorary Editor. She has also served as a legal and data privacy expert for the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for the Cooperation and Security in Europe, and for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Engineer, CEO and co-founder of Libelium

Denny represented New Zealand at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and was included in Massimiliano Gioni’s ‘The Encyclopedic Palace‘ at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. His work was also included in the 16th Sydney Biennale (2008), 1st Brussels Biennale (2008), BNLMTL Montréal Biennale (2014), 11th Lyon Biennale (2015), 9th Berlin Biennale (2016), Manifesta 11 (2016), 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018), 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2018), 34th Ljubljana Biennial (2021), 7th Athens Biennial (2021), 6th Ural Biennial (2021), and 1st Diriyah Biennial (2021) and other major international group exhibitions.

Denny has also presented many solo exhibitions, including a survey of his work at MoMA PS1, New York in 2015; Kunstverein Aachen (2011); Aspen Art Museum (2012); Kunstverein Munich (2013); MUMOK, Vienna (2013); Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2014); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); Serpentine Galleries, London (2015); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); OCAT, Shenzhen (2017); MOCA, Cleveland (2018); the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2019); K21– Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2020); and Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (2023).

Denny has co-curated exhibitions such as Proof of Stake at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2021) and Proof of Work at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018), Remote Control at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2012) and Verboten Liebe at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, (2010). His works are represented in major institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Buffalo AKG (Buffalo), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich), Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Berlin), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg) and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington).

He received the 14th Baloise Art Prize for his Statements presentation at Art Basel in 2012, was nominated for New Zealand’s Walters Prize in 2012 and 2014 and Berlin’s Preis der Nationalgalerie in 2013 and was awarded the Ars viva-Preis für Bildende Kunst in 2012.

In 2025, Denny was recognised as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM).