David Claerbout
1969
Geboren in Kortrijk | Born in Kortrijk
Lebt und arbeitet in Antwerpen und Berlin | Lives and works in Antwerp and Berlin
Studium an der Königlichen Hochschule der Schönen Künste, Antwerpen und an der Reichsakademie für Bildende Künste, Amsterdam | Studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam
Einzelausstellungen | Solo Exhibitions
2023
Meditation in Peace. Meditation in Pieces, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2022
David Claerbout: The Close, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
David Claerbout: Dark Optics, Sean Kelly, New York
David Claerbout: Hemispheres, Esther Schipper, Berlin
David Claerbout: The Close, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
AntiCamera, Capa Center, Budapest
2021
David Claerbout: Premiere Aircraft (FAL), De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg
David Claerbout, Unseen Sound, Garage Museum, Moscow
2020
David Claerbout, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur
2019
Parasol unit in Zuoz, London
Le BAL, Paris
2018
Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich
Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
IS THERE A PLACE BETWEEN THE EARS, Untilthen, Paris
2017
Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami Villa Empain, Bruxelles
MU KA, Antwerp"Olympia" in the permanent collection's display, Antwerp
David Claerbout, Contemporary Art Museum Tampa, Florida
Olympia, Schaulager, Basel
Olympia, MNAC, Barcelona
David Claerbout, Une exposition du 40e anniversaire du Centre Pompidou, Museé des Beaux Arts, Rennes
2016
Olympia, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
2015
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
VideoBox, March 2015. Oil workers..., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brüssel
David Claerbout. Donner du temps, MAMCO, Genf
The Quiet Shore, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington NZ
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2014
Grijs I Grey, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
2013
David Claerbout, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz
Interfuit, Yvon Lambert, Paris
2012
The time that remains, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv I Parasol Unit, London
Diese Sonne strahlt immer, Secession, Vienna
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren
MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
2011
The Time That Remains, WIELS, Bruxelles
Serious Games. Krieg – Medien – Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
David Claerbout: Architecture of Narrative, SFMoma, San Francisco
2010
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Gl Holtegaard, Holte
Uncertain eye, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2009
MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
The Shape of Time, De Pont museum voor hedendaagse kunst/museum of contemporary art, Tilburg
Hauser & Wirth, London
venue pompidou show, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Yvon Lambert, Paris
2008
After the Quiet, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Pompidou venue, National Museum of Contemporary Art at Athens Conservatory, Athens
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Then Came This, Yvon Lambert, New York
Photographers gallery, London
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
MIT LIST Visual Arts Center, Boston
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2007-2008
David Claerbout, Centre Pompidou Paris, espace 315, Paris (travels to MIT LIST Visual Arts Center, Boston; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Galleries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
2007
'David Claerbout. Works from the collection, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles
Arena, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
National Gallery Prague, Prague
2006
Curator’s Eye – Vol. 1 David Claerbout, Nichido Contemporary Art – NCA Gallery, Tokyo
2005
Gezeiten - Background Time, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, Dundee
Visisble Time, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Le Magasin, Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble
2004
Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterburg
2003
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Galleri K, Oslo
CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago di Compostela
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2002
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
2001
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2000
Reflexive Figuration, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam
Huis aan de Werf, Utrecht
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Project for the Internet: Present, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
1999
De Vereniging, S.M.A.K., Ghent
Caryatids (Permanent Sound-Installation commissioned by Christian Kieckens, Architects), Hallen, Kortrijk
1998
Etablissement d’en Face, Bruxelles
1997
Montevideo Galerie, Antwerp
Argos, Kanal 20, Bruxelles
Gruppenausstellungen | Group exhibitions
2023
KAFKA: 1924, Villa Stuck, Munich (upcoming)
Caspar David Friedrich, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg (upcoming)
Out of the Box, Schaulager, Basel
2022-2023
David Claerbout, Facing the Wild, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2022
Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London
Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Mythos Wald, das Flüstern der Blätter, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden
Les Fabriques du cœur et leur usage, Museum of Contemporary Arts of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Grand-Hornu
Breathing, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2021
The Real and the Record. Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2021, MOMus Photography, Thessaloniki
We are animals, Kunsthal Rotterdam
The Sound of Disney, Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
2020
Memling Now: Hans Memling in contemporary art, Musea Brugge – Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges
A Long Time Short, KAI10, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
2019
Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, Bildmuseet, Umeå
2018
Image Profile: Aspects of the Documentary in MMK's Photography Collection, MMK 2, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2017
Appropriation in Contemporary Art, Bernal Espacio, Madrid
Kunst Kino, Neues Museum, Nuremberg
WARTEN. Zwischen Macht und Möglichkeit, Kunsthalle, Hamburg
The Sky is the Limit, Museum Rockoxhuis, Antwerp
BIOTOPIA, Kunsthalle, Mainz
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Man as Bird. Images of Journeys, Palazzo Saranzo Van Axel, Venice
Ways of Seeing, Arter, Istanbul
Between Film and Photography, FOMU foto museum, Antwerp
2016
The Power of the Avant-Garde, BOZAR, Bruxelles
Paradise on Earth. Landscapes from Bruegel to Rubens, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
2015
The Importance of Being..., Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana I Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires | Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
Cera Collection, Museum M, Leuven
Julia Margeret Cameron, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent
Sammlung Haubrok, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
The Collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Schaulager, Basel
RAY Fotografieprojekte, MMK & partner institutions, Frankfurt am Main
Louisiana Art Museum, Humlebaek
L’homme, le Dragon et la mort, MAC’s, Hornu
2014
still (not) moving, Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin
43rd International Film Festival: Spectrum Shorts, Rotterdam
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection: The Towering Inferno (The Babylon Trilogy, Part 1), The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit, Museum Morsbroich, Morsbroich
El Hotel Electrico, MUHKA, Antwerp
Variations of the Moon, Nam June Paik Art Center, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Kore9th
Early Works, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
19 Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney
The Illusion of Light, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Bad Thoughts-Collectie Martijn en Jeannette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Projects for a Monument to the Anthropocene, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Dialogue (with John Gerrard), MUHKA, Antwerp
2013
More Light, 5th Moscow Biennale, Moscow
Every Day Matters, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen
Baza(a)r Belg(i)e, Centrale for contemporary Art, Bruxelles
Rythm in it – Vom Rythmus in der Gegenwartskunst, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Datascapes, Foundation Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
ArtInternational, Istanbul
Constable, Delacroix, Friedrich und Goya - Die Erschütterung der Sinne, Galerie Neue Meister Staatliche Gemäldegalerie Dresden
Performing Still Images: Matthew Buckingham and David Claerbout, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
The Tolerant Home – 400 Years of Liberal Culture in Amsterdam, Chambres des Canaux/several locations in the city of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Musée d’Art moderne et Contemporain, permanent collection, Strasbourg
2012
Equal Dialogue, West China International Art Biennal, Yinchuan
The Undercurrent of Boredom, Lothringer13/Halle für internationale Gegenwartskunst, Munich
Kalte Rinden – Seltene Erden, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel
Static Movement, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Klang und Stille – Synästhetische Aspekte von Film und Video, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich
7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Media City Seoul 2012) Spell on you, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Cities of Gold and Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Sin-Jan, St. Baafs Kathedrale, Gent
Found Footage: Cinema Exposed, Eye film instituut nederland, Amsterdam
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Istanbul Modern, 'La La La Human Steps / contemporary surreal drawings from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen', Istanbul
2011
Aschemünder, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, HdK, Munich
The Un-bearable Lightness of Being, Yvon Lambert, New York
Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitain Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Out-Of-Sync. The Paradoxe of Time, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Serious Games. Krieg-Medien-Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
Sunrise (project room), De Pont museum for contemporary art, Tilburg
2010
Photoespana, Madrid
Next Generation, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo
2008/09
La vidéo, un art, une histoire, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
2008
Endless Sphere, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiew
PhotoEspana, Circullo de Bellas Artes, Lisbon
Monet and Venice, Beyeler Fondation, Basel
Rêver l'horizon, autour de Paysage (1840) de Turner, Beffroi du Louvre, Lens à Bruay-la-Buissière (Pas-de-Calais)
Stutter and Twitch, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto
The Morning After. Videoworks from the Goetz Collection, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Sichtbarwerden, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Car Culture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
The Subversion of Standstill / Die Subversion des Stillstandes, Halle 14, Universal Cube, Leipzig / ACC Gallery, Weimar
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Doing it my way - Perspectives on Belgium Art, Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg
2007-2008
Going Staying. Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
2007
Perspektive - Neuerwerbungen, Schenkungen und Wünsche der Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst im Lenbachhaus, Lenbachhaus, Munich
In the Eye of the Storm, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Herzlija Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Other than film, Filmfestival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Imagination Becomes Reality (works from the Goetz collection), ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
2006
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf/Bern
Annagramme, MAC’s Grand Hornu – Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu
Review: Collection Pierre Huber, Le Magasin, Grenoble
Slow Motion, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Intouchable, Villa Arson, Nice
Brighton Photo Biennial, Argus Building, Brighton
2005-2006
Fast Nichts – Minimalistische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2005
Lisboa Photo 2005, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Belgique Visionnaire, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
Slow Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
What's New, Pussycat?, Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK, Frankfurt/Main
Double Vision, Biennale Prague, Prague
Fast nichts. Minimal artworks, Hamburger Bahnhof, Rieckhallen, Berlin
2004
Do You Believe in Reality?, Taipei Biennial, Taipei
Works I told you about, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Channel Zero, Montevideo, Amsterdam
Working Ethics. An Exhibition from a certain Flanders, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photography III, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Ralentir vite, Le Plateau, Paris
2003
War (What is it Good for?), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Attack! Kunst und Krieg in den Zeiten der Medien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
under ground, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
Body Matters, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
Outlook, Technopolis, Benaki-Museum, Factory, Athens
Gelijk het leven is. Belgische kunst uit de collectie van het SMAK, SMAK Stedelijk Museum Voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent
Fast forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Guided by Heroes, Z 33, Hasselt
Once upon a time..., MUHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
2002
Malerei ohne Malerei, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
31st International Film Festival, Rotterdam
Haunted by Detail, De Appel, Amsterdam
Teaser, daadgalerie, Berlin
L'Herbier et le Nuage, Musée des arts contemporains MAC's Grand-Hornu, Hornu
Art & Public, Genf
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Group Exhibition, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Das Museum, die Sammlung, der Direktor und seine Liebschaften, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2001
Berlin Biennale 2, Berlin
La Vertité est Ailleurs, Centre Pour L’Image Contemporaine, Genf
Unreal Time Video, Korean Art Foundation, Seoul
Videoserie in der Black Box, 6 Künstler – 6 Positionen, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Touch me..., Cultural Centers Strombeek, Sint-Niklaas, Roeselare
Passion, Galerie Ascan Crone, Part I in Hamburg, Part II in Berlin, Berlin
2000
L’opera, Un Chant d’Etoiles, La Monnaie, Brussels
Le Grand Hornu, Mons
Limmerick City Gallery of Art, Limmerick
Huis aan de Werf, Utrecht
18th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
1999
Collection Flemish Community, Hallen, Bruges
Trouble Spot, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Nuevos Caminos, Vigo
FRI ART Centre for Contemporary Art, Freiburg
Dis-Location, hARTware, Dortmund
Reflexive Figuration, Galerie Ferdinant Van Dieten, Amsterdam
Fotohof, Salzburg
1998
Not strictly private, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld
Intimate Strangers, Gallery by Night, Budapest
Beelden buiten 1998, Tielt
Grown in frozen time, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld
I never promised you a rose garden, Beelden Buiten, Tielt
1997
Watertoren, CHK Vlissingen
Pica en Flandes, Barcelona
Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge, Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles
1996
Tekeningen en projecten, Montevideo Gallery, Antwerp
Preise | Awards
Will-Grohmann-Preis der Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2007
Sammlungen | Public Collections
ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Centre Georges Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Collection François Pinault, Paris, France
Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
MAC-Grand Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
MMK–Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Musée d'art contemporain de Strassbourg, Strasbourg, France
Musées Royaux, Bruxelles, Belgium
Province of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Theatre National de la Monnaie, Bruxelles, Belgium
MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Flick Collection, Berlin, Germany
Emanuel Hoffmann Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland Collection Pierre Huber, Switzerland
GAM, Galleria D'Arte Moderna et Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
De Pont museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Tilburg, Netherlands
Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Mudam, Luxembourg
Ellipse Foundation, Netherlands
Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway
Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
Caldic Collectie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Kramlich Collection, Napa Valley, California, USA
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
The Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
M – Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Sammlung Haubrok, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany
