Berlinde De Bruyckere  (1964)

Over de kunstenaar
Geboren in Gent. Woont en werkt in Gent.

Oorlog en conflict vormen haar grootste bron van inspiratie: de Grote Oorlog van 1914-1918 aan de IJzer, de recente conflicten in het voormalige Joegoslavië. Opmerkelijk: in al haar figuren zijn de ogen afwezig. Dit detail maakt de beklemming en de eenzaamheid van haar verbeeldingswereld extra schrijnend. Toch zijn de beelden op zich niet wreed of choquerend. De beeldentaal is niet extreem. Haar werk haalt zijn kracht uit een bezonkenheid in zichzelf, en uit het contrast tussen de pijnlijke aanwezigheid van het lichaam en de afwezigheid van de geest.

Het sterk en authentiek oeuvre van Berlinde De Bruyckere heeft zich een unieke plaats in de kunstwereld veroverd. In 2005 leverde ze een bijdrage aan het centrale paviljoen van de Biënnale van Venetië en had ze een eenmanstentoonstelling in Tilburg. De afgelopen twee jaar stelde ze tentoon in half West-Europa. Het internationale succes heeft een prijs. Haar werk was de jongste jaren meer in het buitenland dan hier te zien. De jury hoopt dat daar binnenkort verandering in komt. De tijd is rijp voor een overzichtstentoonstelling, waarin ook plaats is voor De Bruyckeres prachtige voorbereidende tekeningen en aquarellen.

Opleiding
Sint-Lucas, Gent (1986)

Solotentoonstellingen

2007
DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca

2006
Hauser & Wirth London, London

2005
La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, ‘Un’, Paris
De Pont, stichting voor hedendaagse kunst / Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg

2004
Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich

2003
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano

2002
Galerie CD Christine De Ketelaere, Tielt
Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 'Caermersklooster', Gent
Een thuis voor een beeld, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen

2001
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Köln Sculptur- Art Cologne, Galleria Continua
MUKHA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, 'En alles is aanéén-genaaid', Antwerp
Maison de quartier de Rosendael Centre, 'C. Reybroeck, 1997', Dunkerque
de Brakke Grond, 'Aanéén-gegroeid', Amsterdam

2000
Park ter Beuken, 'POTEN, poten zullen bomen worden', Lokeren
In Flanders’ Fields Museum, 'In Flanders’ Fields', Ieper
De Pont stichting voor hedendaagse kunst, 'Aanéén-genaaid', Tilburg

Groepstentoonstellingen

2006
Museum Voor Schone Kunst, 'Ademen en Verstikken', Antwerp
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Kiasma, 'Ars 06', Helsinki

2005
Museum Dr. Guislain, 'Pijn', Gent
GAMeC, 'War is over', Bergamo
De Noker, 'Emilie Fresco', Mechelen
Palazzo Strozzi, 'Donna Donne. Uno sguardo sul feminile nell’arte contemporanea', Firenze
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 'Bidibidobidiboo. La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per i dieci anni della Fondazione', Torino
Galleria Continua, 'The New Space in Beijing', Beijing
HVCCA The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, 'Figure It Out: New Directions in Figurative Sculpture', Peekskill
DA2 Domus Artium, 'Baroque-Neobaroque. The Hell of the Beautyfull', Salamanca
PMMK, 'Soul’, Oostende
Kunst Palast, 'Westen Wind od nieuwe accenten', Dusseldorf
Fondacio Espais d’Art Contemporani, 'La Dona Arbre', Girona
Grootseminarie, 'Soul', Brugge
ICA, 'Springtide', Philadelphia PA
Palais de Beaux Arts, 'Visionary Belgium', Brussels
ARCO 2005- Project Rooms, Madrid
Assembly Projects, Bath
Nous le Passage – Poëziezomer, Watou
Rheinisches Industriemuseum, 'Flexible 4 (identities)', Euskirchen
Modern Chinese Art Foundation, 'Werken uit de Collectie & Peter Buggenhout – Berlinde de Bruyckere', Gent

2004
Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie, 'Flexible 4 (identities)', Linz
Galleria Continua, 'De Humana Proportione', San Gimignano
Watou 2004, Watou
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 'Non Toccare la Donna Bianca', Torino
MAN, 'Catastrofi Minime', Nuoro
IKOB, Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, 'Vanitas. Eitelkeit van de iIdelheden', Eupen
Sint-Blasius Hospital, 'Solo Quint II’, Dendermode
Haunch of Venison, 'Animals', London

2004-03
Spiritus, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konstall, Sweden. Traveling to: Jonkopings Lans Museum;
Bomuldsfabriken Kunstall, Arendal, Norge; Sundsvalls Museum; Lansmuseet Gavleborg; Goteborgs Konstmuseum

2003
Not Afraid, Rubell Familly Collection, Miami, FL
Sitings: Installation Art 1969-2002. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003,” Lyon, France
The Art of Chess, The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, UK
Orange, Expression Centre d’expostion de Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Twilight, London, UK
Micro Politicas. Arte en Contidianida 2001- 1968. Art and Everyday Life 2001 - 1968, EACC ESPAI
McCarthy, Paul
d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia, Spain
Chang, Emin, Fisher and McCarthy, The Moore Space, Miami, Florida
(In Search of) The Perfect Lover, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Independent Curators
International (ICI), New Traveling Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center
Spiritus, Magasin 3, Riksutstallningar, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Forth Sex. Adolescent Extremes, Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, Stazione Leopolda,
Florence , Italy
In Your Face, FRAHM LTD, London
Imagine, You Are Standing Here In Front Of Me, Caldic Collection, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

2002
Plus Ultra, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Shit Plug, Paul McCarthy / Jason Rhoades, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
To Eat or Not to Eat or Relationship of Art with Food in the 20th Century, Centro de Arte de Salamanca,
CASA, Salamanca, Spain
Proposition: Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Art Unlimited, Art 33 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Blind Mirror. Selections from a Contemporary Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Art After Art, Neues Museum Weseberg, Bremen, Germany
Ahead of the 21st Century. The Pisces Collection, Donaueschingen, Switzerland
Art Downtown, Wall Street Rising, New York
Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
Fallen Heroes:Masculinity and Representation ESPAI d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Castello, Spain

2001
Depiction, curated by Peter Pakesch for the Steirisc[:her:]bst Festival, Graz, Austria
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
ABBILD Recent Portraiture and Depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Paul McCarthy in Person, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
TRANS editions, Chac Mool Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, ICI Travelling Exhibition
Play’s The Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York

2000
Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures, Walker Art Center, traveling to Portland Art Museum, Musee
National d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museon Rufino Tamayo, Miami Art Museum
Art at MoMA since 1980”, MoMa, New York
Video Time, survey of Videos from the Museum of Modern art, NY
The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser and Wirth, St Gallen

1999
Parallel Lines: Mix and Match, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
Bloom: Contemporary Art Garden, curated by Gianni Romano, Milan, Italy
La Biennale di Venezia, 48 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, dapertutto, Venice
Ruralia. Maaseudun taide. Art of the Countryside, Porin Taidmuseo, Pori, Finland
Horse Play, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works, The Power Plant Contepmorary Art Gallery,
Toronto, Canada

1998
Presumed Innocence, Virginia Commonwealth University
Collection un autre regard, capcMusée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
Figurative Sculpture, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
L.A. Times, curated by Francesco Bonami, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte Contemporanea, Guarene
d’Alba
New Works, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Damenwahl: Monika Baer & Paul McCarthy, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue)
American Presentation, The Theater of Self-Presentation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Veronica’s Revenge, Stedelijk Museum, Sittard
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY

1997
Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Out of Actions: Performance and the Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Sunshine & Noir. Art in LA 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Natural Habitat, The Tannery. London, England
Observations, Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Deep Storage Arsenale der Erinnerung Haus der Kunst Munich, Munich; traveling to Berlin and the U.S.
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Display, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Painting - The Extended Field, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
Tableaux, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Un bel été, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Paul McCarthy and Benjamin Weissman, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dramatically Different, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
4e Biennale d”art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States, SFMOMA, San
Francisco

1996
(nude), Trans Hudson Gallery
World Wide Video Festival, five locations in The Hague
The Garage Project, MAK Center for Art abd Architecture L.A.
Non! Pas Comme Ca!, Centre d’art Neuchatel, Neuchatel Switzerland
Sex & Crime, Sperengel Museum Hannover
Low Cool, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Image of Self as Another, Porin Taidemuseo, Finland
Reel World Artists’ Fim and Video of the 1970’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Controfigura, Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy
SAMPLER 2 - More Videos from Southern California, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Les plastirs et Les Ombres, La Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Vito Acconci videos performances viewing Fresh Acconci, Antheneum Campus Universitaire, Dijon,
France
Portraits, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art, Galerie Andreas Binder
The Paranoid Machine, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
Everything That’s Interesting Is New, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Tokyo, Japan
Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York
From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculpture’s Drawings, Frith Street Gallery and Karsten Schubert,
London
Shit, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York, NY
a/drift: Scenes From the Penetrable Culture, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
Popcultural, South London Gallery, London, England.
Paul McCarthy, Paul Noble and Allen Ruppersberg Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Romper Room, Thread Waxing Sapce, New York

1995
Kelley, McCarthy, Nauman, West, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Toys, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris
Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The Raw, Postmaster Gallery, New York
Video Screening Painter and “Heidi, Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
New Visions for Historic Neighborhoods, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College
Stereo-Tip, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Femininmasculin:le sexe de l’art, Musee National d’Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Video News, the American Center
Collisions, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
Familiar Places, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
infamie Autres vicoires, Montlucon,Chateau de la Louvire, France
Marcel Broodthaers — Correspondence, Gallery Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, David Zwirner, New York
LA International, Correspondence, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
New History of the Infamy, FRAC Auvergne, Montlucon, France
Fuori USO’95, Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara, Italy
Le Mille e una Volta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporaenea, Repubblica Di San Marino
Identita e Alterita, The Venice Biennial
Collection, fin XX Five Separate locations, in conjunction with FRAC, Poitou-Charentes, France
Whitney Bienniel, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Curates by Stephen Schmitt-Wolfen, Kunstverein, Hamburg,
Germany
Bruce Nauman, Mike Kelley, Franz West and Paul McCarthy, David Zwriner, New York
Endurance, Exit Art, New York

1994
Luhring Augustine, New York
Galleri K, Oslo
Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Blaffer
Gallery, University of Houston; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island Porch Gallery,
Amsterdam (three-person exhibition with Mike Kelley and Charlemagne Palestine)
Dirty, John Good Gallery, New York
GIFT, The InterArt Center, New York
Hors Limites, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Transformers, travelling exhibition through 1997
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Oh boy, it’s a girl, Kunstverein Munchen, Munchen
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark, Daniel Oates, Lincoln Tobier, Larry Johnson, Jeff Wall, Dan
Graham, Richard Prince, Meyer Vaisman, Rodney Graham and Paul McCarthy
Altered, Two-person show, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Paul McCarthy, Austrain Cultural Institute, New
York
Paul McCarthy - Mike Kelley - Charlemagne Palestine - Dirk Larsen Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Kus Me Kus Me Zeeman De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
[cut] - Los Angeles - 90’ernes kunstscene, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1993
Privacy, Spazio Opos, Milan, January
Poliset, Centrovideoarte-Palazzo Diamanti, Ferrara
I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, Kunstelerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The Elegant, The Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawings in Southern California, Visual Art Center,
California State University, Fullerton, CA
The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper, Kramer Art Museum, Champaigne, IL; Newport
Harbor Art Museum, Champaigne, Il; Newport Harbor Art Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA;
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
The Mere Interchange, Aperto ’93, Venice Biennale, Venice
Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Action/Performance and the Photograph, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
United Film Project, Firminy, France
Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
The Language of Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
Sampler: Southern California Video Collection, David Zwirner Gallery; Studio Guenzani, Milan;
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln
Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles

1992
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Roy Dowell paintings, Paul McCarthy drawings, Renee Petropoulos studies, Rosamund Felsen Gallery,
Los Angeles
Paul McCarthy, Joyce Pensato, Arnulf Rainer, Luhring Augustine, New York
Post Human, FAE Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne; Castello di Rivoli, Torino; Deste
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln
Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Into the Lapse, 1301, Santa Monica, July-August
Strange Developments, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, September-October, Jack Hanley Gallery,
San Francisco, November
Lax, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, November

1991
Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissum, Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles; Sue Spaid Fine Arts, Los
Angeles
The Body, Simon Watson, New York
The Body (2), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
The Family Romance, Simon Watson, New York
Video Violence, Ars Electronica, Ling, Austria
Quick Coagulation Forms the August Corpse, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Presenting Rearwords, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Ha-Ha, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Body and Body, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

1990
New California Video: A Survey of Open Channels, 1985-90, Long Beach
Past and Present: Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles

1989
L.A. Freewaves, American Film Institute Video Festival and area-wide screenings, Los Angeles

1988
Open Channels Video, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach
Tactical Positions, Los Angeles Contemporary
New Works on Paper, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1985
B&W Drawings, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1984
Contemporary Eccentrics, Edge Gallery, Los Angeles
Assault Video, Anti Club, Los Angeles

1983
13/14 Artist Out of Line, Gallery 8336, Los Angeles
Video by Performance Artists, Hallwalls, Buffalo

1982
Works by Richard Newton and Paul McCarthy, Exile Gallery, Los Angeles
Video Tapes America, American Center, Paris

1981
Lately in L.A. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
Objects by Paul McCarthy and Barbara Smith, Espace Gallery, Los Angeles
California Performance Now and Then, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1980
Video 80, The Public Eye, San Francisco
Audio Works, Sixto Notes, Milan

1978
Video Tapes from Los Angeles, California, Nan Hoover Atelier, Amsterdam

1976
Outside Video Tapes, M.L. d’Arc Gallery, New York
Southern California Video Anthology Part II, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach
Commissioned Video, University Art Museum, Berkeley

1975
Southern California Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles

1974
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles

1973
Festival of the Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Conceptual Art, Libra Gallery, Pomona

De volgende instellingen bieden werk aan en organiseren exposities:
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Hauser & Wirth London, London
Yvon Lambert New York, New York

De volgende musea/instellingen hebben werk in hun collectie:
Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag/Scheveningen
Museum Het Domein, Sittard
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Muhka, Antwerpen
De Pont, Tilburg
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent

Vertegenwoordigd in de volgende bedrijfscollecties:
FOD Buitenlandse Zaken, Brussel
Vlaams Parlement - Kunstcollectie, Brussel

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