Edith Dekyndt
1960
born in Ypres, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels and Berlin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
MYODESOPSIES, l-projekt, Berlin
Concentrated Form of Non-Material Energy, St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin
2020
The Black, The White, The Blue, Le grand Café - Centre d'art contemporain, Saint Nazaire
The Ghost Year, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
2019
The Black, The White, The Blue, Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf
The Black, The White, The Blue, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
The Lariat, VNH Galerie, Paris
2018
Soul Collector, Synagogue de Delme, Delme, Frankreich
Ninth Wave, Monument du roi Albert 1er, Nieuwpoort, Belgien
Art Basel Unlimited, Basel
2017
They Shoot Horses (Part I), Taxis Palais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Österreich
They Shoot Horses (Part II), Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Slow Objects, The Common Guide, Glasgow, UK
Blind Objects, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
2016
Mer sans rivages. Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte Croix, Les Sables-d'Olonne, FR, curated by FRAC Pays de la Loire
Air, rain, pain, wind, sweat, tears, fear, yeast, heat, pleasure, salt, dust, dreams, odors, noises, humidity. DAAD Gallery, Berlin, curated by Bettina Klein
Strange Fruits, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
Ombre indigène, Wiels, Brussels, curated by Dirk Snauwaert
2015
Théoreme des Foudres, Le Consortium, Dijon, curated by Anne Pontégnie
2014
Devil is in the Details, Swarovsky, Vienna, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen
Untitled, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
Paradise Syndrome, Curated by Regina Barunke, Temporary Gallery,
Krasny Ougol, Unlimited Art Basel, Basel, Galerie Greta Meert
Chronology of Tears, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
All that is solid melts into air, Martin Van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam
2013
Slow Stories, La BF15, Espace d’art contemporain, Lyon
Mexican Vanities, Carl Freedman Gallery, London
2012
The Painter`s Enemy, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana
Dreams and Lies, Hasselt University, BE, curated by Jan Boelen
2011
Subliminal Rooms, VidalCuglietta Gallery, Brussels
Dieu rend visite à Newton, Fri-Art, Centre of Contemporary Art, Friburg, Switzerland,
curated by Corinne Charpentier
La femme de Loth, Synagogue de Delme, FR, curated by Marie Cozette
2010
Get Out Of My Cloud, Kiosk, Ghent, BE, curated by Wim Waelput.
2009
Les Ondes de Love, MAC’s, Grand-Hornu, Hornu, BE (Cat.)
At Night I Lie, Karin Guenther Galerie, Hamburg
The Transparent Ceiling, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Edith Dekyndt – Agnosia, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2008
One second of Silence, Parker’s Box Gallery, Brooklyn, curated by Alun Williams
Present Perfect, Program Gallery, Berlin
Present Perfect, Les Filles du calvaire Gallery, Brussels
2007
Project room, Les Filles du calvaire Gallery, Brussels
2006
Two White Pieces, Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg CA, curated by Neil Minuk
2004
Slow Objects, Porte 11 Gallery, Brussels, BE
Any Resemblance To Persons, Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental, BPS 22,
Charleroi, BE
Detrois Studio, Brussels, BE, curated by Yolande de Bondt – Ridder
2003
Soleil Public, Le Comptoir du Nylon, Brussels curated by Frédérique Versaen
2002
Before Life (Myodesopsies 01), Chapelle de Boondael, Brussels
1999
Alone at Home, Les témoins oculistes, Brussels
Edith Dekyndt & Chris Dorosz, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CDN
1998
Worthlessness, Espace l’Escaut, Brussels, BE, curated by Olivier Bastin
Discreet Piece, Or Gallery, Vancouver, CA, CDN, curated by Kitty Scott & Reid Shier
1996
Laboratory 02, c/o Christophe Lezaire, Obigies
1995
Laboratory 01, Espace l’Escaut, Brussels
1994
To Clean a Room, Themistocles Gallery, Mexico City
1993
Legenda Orea, c/o Klaus Haas, Leuven, BE
Nihil Novum Sub Sole, Koma, Mons, BE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2021
Nothing is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, GAMeC, Bergamo
KunstFestival Watou, Chateau La Lovie, Poperinge
Studio K, Kanal, Brussels
Selon notre regard, Institut Francais, Berlin
You and I Don't Live on the Same Planet, Taipei Biennial, Taipei
2020
2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga
Examination of Case, Muséum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz
Easy Come, Easy Go in "Chonique de l'invisble", Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire
2019
Convex / Concave Belgium Contemporary Art, organized by WIELS and held at TANK Shanghai
They Shoot Horses, Kunsthalle, Hamburg and Musee de la immifration, Buenos Aires
Luogo e Segni, Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana, Venedig
Underground (Belledonne, Chartreuse, Vercors), in "I remember earth", Le magasin des Horizons - centre national d'art et de culture, Grenoble
One Thousand and One Night in "trois fois rien", CN D, Centre National de la Danse, Pantin
2018
Soul Collector in "Assemblée", Synagogue de delme
Breidarmerkurfjara Beach in "Océan", Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Ombre Indigene in "Où va l'ésprit", Espace atlantis, Marseille
2017
Venice Biennale, Venice
Slow Objects, The Common Guild, Glasgow
Accentisms, Taxipalais, Kunsthalle Tirol, A
Belgian Art Prize, Bozar, Brussels
The Beguiling Siren is ThyCrest, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
2016
Provisory Object 03 in ‘Laboratoire de l’art’, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, Curated by Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Christophe Gallois, Enrico Lunghi, Clément Minighetti (MUDAM), Marie-Sophie Corcy (Musée des arts et métiers)
Major Tom in ‘Seeing Round Corner’, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent UK, Curated by artists David Ward and Jonathan Parsons
Martial M in Short Film program ‘Migration Birds’ Art Basel, Basel, CH, Curated by Maxa Zoller
Broken White. Design Academy Eindhoven and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
+ultra.Knowledge & Gestaltung, Martin-Gropius-Baus, Berlin
2015
Hugging the Walls. A Tribute to Terry Fox, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2014
Blue Times, Kunsthalle Vienna, Curated by Amira Gad, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Laisser les sons aller où ils vont, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR Curated by Sébastien Faucon
New Ways of Doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Vienna, Curated by Cristina Ricupero & Vanessa Mu?ller
Order Cannot Help You Now, Argos Center Art and Media, Brussels, Curated by Ive Stevenheydens
Alone at Home in “Chambre à soi”, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Saint Denis, FR
Art Of Its Own Making, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
2013
Pièces Montrées, Frac Alsace, 30 ans de collection, Sélestat, FR
Le Milieu du Monde, Tourinnes-la-Grosse, BE, curated by David de Tscharner
5th Moscow Biennale 2013: Bolshe Sveta / More Light, Moscow, Curated by Catherine de Zegher
Old Black, Team Gallery, New York, USA, curated by Todd von Hammon
Space Odyssée 2.0, Z33 - House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, BE, curated by Ils Huygens
L’origine des choses, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels
2012
About Horizon, VidalCuglietta Gallery, Brussels
P.A.M.I., Peckham, London, curated by Harriet Blaise Mitchell
Lárt dans les chapelles, Notre-Dame-du-Moustoir, Malguénac, FR
curated by Emilie Ovaere - Corthay & Karim Ghaddab
Sint - Jan Ghent, Saint-Bavo´s Cathedral, Ghent, curated by Jan Hoet & Hans Martens
Le Prince de rayons, Vidal
Cuglietta Gallery, Brussels
L`équilibre des forces, La Malterie, Lille
2011
We make Versions, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Mu?nster
Found in Translation, Casino Luxembourg, Forum for Contemporary Art, Luxemburg, curated by Emmanuel Lambion.
D’un autre monde, Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, curated by Anne Pontégnie
Contour 2011, 5th Biennal of Moving Image, Mechelen, curated by Anthony Kiendl
Principe d’incertitude, Magasin, Centre National d’art contemporain, Grenoble, France
curated by Francesca Agnesod, Nadia Barrientos, Guillaume Hervier and Andrea Rodriguez Novoa as part of Session 20 of the École du Magasin of Grenoble
Radical Autonomy/ Nieuwe werelden van niks, Netwerk, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium, curated by Arno van Roosmalen.
A. B. C. - Belgian ContemporaryArt, City Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, curated by Dominique Païni and Pascale Pronnier
Ex Libris, VidalCuglietta Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Lilou Vidal
2010
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
curated by Connie Butler and Catherine de Zegher (Cat.)
«The Right to protest», Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel, curated by Raphie Etgar (Cat.)
The Shape of Time, TraficART2010, Galerie Sequence, Saguenay curated by Nicole Gingras
The Moon is an Arrant Thief, The David Roberts Foundation, London, curated by Oliver Martinez-Kandt, Thom O’Nions, Luiza Teixeira de Freitas
Ocean, Musée de la Mer, Biarritz, France, curated by Florence Guionneau-Joie (Cat.)
Opening Exhibition, The Richard Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences, New York
Before Present, La Villa du Parc, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Annemasse, France
A l’Ombre d’un doute, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France, curated by Beatrice Josse.
Drawing Time – Le Temps du dessin, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy et Galerie Poirel, Nancy, France, curated by Marie Cozette (Cat.)
Gagarin, the artists in their own words – the first decade, SMAK, Gent
The most of now, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Get out of my cloud, Kiosk KASK, Gent
Composite Visions, CAN, Neuchatel
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
2009
Edith Dekyndt and Michael Stevenson, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe
Silence, a composition, Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, JP, curated by Tanja Elstgeest
Ritual of Homecoming, Lodz, PL, curated by Adam Budak
Waterpod Powow, Waterpod, New York, curated by Eve K. Tremblay and Mary Mattingly
The New Easy, Artnews gallery, Berlin, curated by Lars Eijssen
Chambre d’écho, Musée Réattu, Arles, FR
Political/ Minimal, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, PL, curated by Klaus Biesenbach
Cul-de-sac, Venice small squares, Venice, curated by Lino Polegato
Le sang du poète, F.R.A.C. Pays de Loire, Carquefou, FR, curated by Laurence Gateau & Adam Budak
Faux- Jumeaux, S.M.A.K., Gent, curated by Hans Theys
There is No(w) Romaticism, Les Filles du calvaire Gallery, Brussels, curated by Lilou Vidal
All that is solid melts into air, De Garage, Mechelen, curated by Edwin Carels
Faux- Jumeaux, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE, curated by Guillaume Désanges
Acquisitions 2007-2008, F.R.A.C. Picardie, Amiens, FR
Nos (Us), Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, curated by Daniella Geo
Flash B(l)ack, CC Strombeek, curated by Luk Lambrecht
2008
Political/ Minimal”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Klaus Biesenbach
Brussels Biennial, Midi Station, selection Witte de With, Rotterdam
(A)pesanteur, récit sans gravité, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, curated by Béatrice Josse
Corpus Delictis, Palais de Justice de Bruxelles
58 T, Congrès station, Brussels, curated by Emmanuel Lambion
Septiformis, Cathedral St. Michel & Gudule, Brussels
Mortal Coil, Parker Box Gallery, Brooklyn, curated by Alun Williams
Performa(c)tivity, Amores Theatre, Athens, curated by Katerina Tselou
Prospect 58, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, BE, curated by Pieter Vermeersch
Le soigneur de gravité, Mac’s, Grand Hornu, BE, curated by Denis Gielen
Biennale de la photographie, MAMAC, Liège
Plier, Déplier, Les filles du calvaire gallery, Brussels, curated by Edith Doove
2007
Commitment, De Garage Mechelen, BE, curated by Luk Lambrecht
2006
Welcome Back, Mister Paik!, Mukha Media, Antwerpen
Suite Fibonacci, Galerie Frédéric Desimpel, Brussels, curated by Christophe Veys
Tracer, Retracer 2, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, curated by Nicole Gingras
Crossing Anspach, Anspach Galleries, Brussels, curated by Sprezzatura Galerie
2019
The Lariat
The White, the Black, the Blue
2017
They Shoot Horses
2016
Ombre Indogene
Mer Sans Rivage
Livret
2014
Monday is Blue
2011
The Painter's Enemy
2010
Witte de With
2009
Les Ondes de Love
I Remember Earth
2001
Livret
2000
CDROM Livret
1999
Artist's Book
1997
Structure
1995
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