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Edith Dekyndt

1960

born in Ypres, Belgium

Lives and works in Brussels and Berlin

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023-2024

L'Origine des choses, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris

2023

Paris Syndrome, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

L'origine des choses, Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce, Paris France

2022

Aria of Inertia, Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Concentrated Form of Non-Material Energy, St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany

2021
Visitation Zone Part II, 91530 Le Château du Marais, le Val St Germain, France
Illusion or is it Just different, Kunstfestival Watou, La Lovie, Poperinge, Belgium

2020
The Black, The White, The Blue, Le grand Café - Centre d'art contemporain, Saint Nazaire, France

The Ghost Year, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium

2019
The Black, The White, The Blue, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Black, The White, The Blue, Finkenwerder Kunstpreis, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
They Shoot Horses, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

2018
Soul Collector, Synagogue de Delme, France
Ninth Wave, Monument du roi Albert 1er, Nieuwpoort, Belgium

2017
The Shoot Horses (Part I), Taxis Palais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
They Shoot Horses (Part II), Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Blind Objects, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
Slow Objects, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK

2016
Mer sans rivages, Musée de l’Abbaye de Sainte Croix, Les sables d’Olonne, France
Air, rain, pain, wind, sweat, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Strange Fruits, Greta Meert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Ombre indigène, WIELS - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium

2015
Théoreme des Foudres, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

2014
Devil is in the Details, Swarovsky, Vienna, Austria

2013
Slow Stories, La BF15, Espace d’art contemporain, Lyon, France

2012
The Painter`s Enemy, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2011
Dieu rend visite à Newton, Fri-Art, curated by Corinne Charpentier, Centre of Contemporary Art, Friburg, Switzerland
La femme de Loth, Synagogue de Delme, France

2010
Get Out Of My Cloud, Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium

2009
Les Ondes de Love, MAC’s, Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
At Night I Lie, Karin Guenther Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
The Transparent Ceiling, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Edith Dekyndt – Agnosia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2008
One second of Silence, Parker’s Box Gallery, Brooklyn, US
Present Perfect, Les Filles du calvaire Gallery, Brussels, Belgium


2006
Two White Pieces, Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

2004
Any Resemblance To Persons, Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental, BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium

2003
Soleil Public, Le Comptoir du Nylon, Brussels, Belgium
Before Life, Centre d’Art Chapelle de Boondael, Brussels, Belgium

1998
Worthlessness, Espace l’Escaut, Brussels, Belgium
Discreet Piece, Or Gallery, Vancouver, CA

1995
Laboratory 01, Espace l’Escaut, Brussels, Belgium

1993
Clean a Room, Themistocles Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

1992
Nil Novum Sub Sole, Galerie Koma, Mons, Belgium

1990
Legenda Aurea, Klaus Haas, Leuven, Belgium

1989
Ad Quadratum, Galerie Koma, Mons, Belgium

1986

Tout doit disparaitre, Eric Muller et Edith Dekyndt, Galerie Koma, Mons, Belgium

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Something New, Something Old, Something Desired, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Futura, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany

2021
Nothing is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Illusion or is it Just different, Kunstfestival Watou, La Lovie, Poperinge, Belgium
Au-delà de la couleur - Le noir et le blanc dans la collection Pinault, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes, France
La Couleur crue, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, France
Active Threads, KAI 10, ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf, Germany
Studio K, Kanal, Brussels, Belgium
Selon notre regard, Institut Francais, Berlin, Germany
You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet, Taipeh Biennial, Taiwan
Musterung. Pop und Politik in der zeitgenössischen Textilkunst, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany

2020
Chroniques de l’invisible, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Saint - Nazaire, France
2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia

2019
Fresh Window, La collection du Mudam en ville, Luxembourg
Sans gravité, Ardenome, Avignon, France
Trois fois rien, CN D - Centre National de la Danse, Pantin, France
They Shoot Horses, Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Luogo E Segni, Punta Della Dogana, Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy

2018
Mouvements partagés, Centre d’art contemporain de Chanot, Clamart, France
Soul Collector, Assemblée, Synagogue de Delme, France
BULLY MISSY QUEENY TIPSY BENJI TEDDY, Counterpoints, II Kunst im Park, Grafenegg, Austria
The Ninth Wave, Beaufort, The Belgian Cost, Nieuwpoort, Belgium
Ombre Indigene, Espace atlantis, Marseille, France
Assemblée, Synagogue de Delme, France
Ninth Wave, Beaufort Art Trieniale, Nieuwpoort, Belgium

2017
Thousand and One Night & Slow Object 08, Biennale de Venezia, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Slow Objects, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
Accentisms, They Shoot Horses (Part I), Taxis Palais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
Notes on our Equilibrium, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
Ombre indigène, Fondation Boghosian-Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
They Shoot Horses, Belgian Art Prize, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
What is not Visible is not Invisible, Les collections des FRAC, SongAun Artspace, Seoul, South Korea
Radiestesic Hall & L’Ennemi du Peintre in’Poetique des Science
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
The Beguiling Siren is The Crest, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
What is not Visible is not Invisible, Les collections des FRAC, France
National Museum of Singapore, curated by Laurence Gateau & Anne-Claire Duprat, La Timidité des Cimes, Le parvis, Tarbes, France
+Ultra. Knowledge & Gestaltung, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin

2016
La Timidité des Cimes, Le parvis, Tarbes, France
Broken White, Design Academy Eindhoven and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Laboratoire de l’art, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
Seeing Round Corner, Margate, Kent, UK
Migration Birds, Art Basel, Switzerland


2015
Love Song and Chronology of Tears, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
One Second of Silence in Là où Commence le Jour, LAM, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
The Borrom Line, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
L’ENTROPIE L’ordre caché, FRAC Bourgogne, France
Till I get it right, Labor Gallery, Mexico
Accidental colors, Studio ORKA, Turnhout, Belgium
The Fence, Skulpturenpark, Cologne, Germany
La mécanique des gestes, Théâtre de Privas / Espace d’art contemporain, Frac Lorraine, Privas, France
The Importance of Being …,Contemporary art from Belgium in Latin-America, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
Blue Pink Black, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
The Future of the Memory, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

2014
55th October Salon exhibition, The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
Blue Times, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
Laisser les sons aller où ils vont, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
New Ways of Doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
Order Cannot Help You Now, Argos Center Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
Chambre à soi, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Saint Denis, France
Art Of Its Own Making, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO

2013
Pièces Montrées, Frac Alsace, 30 ans de collection, Sélestat, France
Le Milieu du Monde, Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium
5th Moscow Biennale, Russia
Space Odyssée 2.0, Z33 - House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium
L’origine des choses, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium

2012
PAMI 2012, South London Gallery, Peckham, London, UK
Lárt dans les chapelles, Notre - Dame du Moustoir, Malguénac, France
L`équilibre des forces, La Malterie, Lille, France

2011
We make Versions, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Found in Translation, Casino Luxembourg, Forum for Contemporary Art, Luxemburg
D’un autre monde, Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France
Contour 2011, 5th Biennal of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
Principe d’incertitude, Magasin, Centre National d’art contemporain, Grenoble, France
Radical Autonomy/ Nieuwe werelden van niks, Netwerk, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium
A. B. C. - Belgian Contemporary Art, City Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2010
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Right to protest, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
The Moon is an Arrant Thief, The David Roberts Foundation, London
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, curated by Beatrice Josse, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Drawing Time – Le Temps du dessin, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy et Galerie Poirel, Nancy, France
Gagarin, the artists in their own words – the first decade, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
The most of now, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

2009
Silence, a composition, Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Ritual of Homecoming, Lodz, Poland
Waterpod Powow, Waterpod, New York, US
Chambre d’écho, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
Political/ Minimal, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Cul-de-sac, Venice small squares, Venice, Italy
Le sang du poète, FRAC Pays de Loire, Carquefou, France
Faux- Jumeaux, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium 
Nos (Us), Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2008
Political/ Minimal, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Brussels Biennial, Midi Station, Belgium
(A)pesanteur, récit sans gravité, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Corpus Delictis, Palais de Justice de Bruxelles, Belgium
58 T, Congrès station, Brussels, Belgium
Septiformis, Cathedral St. Michel & Gudule, Brussels, Belgium
Performa(c)tivity, Amores Theatre, Athens, Greece
Prospect 58, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
Biennale de la photographie, MAMAC, Liège France

2007
Multi/Plier, Galerie Les Filles du Calavaire, Brussels, Belgium
Commitment, De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium


2006
Welcome Back, Mister Paik!, MuKHA Media, Antwerpen, Belgium
Satellite of Love, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Faire Signe, La Criée, Rennes, France

2005
Le Tableau des Eléments, Mac’s, Grand Hornu,  Belgium
Brussels South Airport, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Emergency Biennial, Matrix Art Project, Brussels, Belgium

2004
Volles Sound Festival, Project on Voice in Contemporary Art, Gebouw Vanderborght, Brussels, Belgium
Un choix d’œuvres dans la collection de Christophe Veys, Porte 11 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Weather, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, CA


2003
Argofestival, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
V Salon y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital, Centro Cultural Pablo de La Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba

2002
Act, Espace Culturel BBL, Brussels, Belgium
Le Colloque des chiens, OFF Collection, Biennale de Venice, Espace 251 Nord, Liege, Belgium
La Trahison des images, Palazzo Franchetti, 49 Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Malerei ohne Malerei, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany


2001
Instants Fragiles, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Ici et maintenant, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium

2000
Exit Congo Museum, Koninklijk Museum van Centraal Afrika, Tervuren, Belgium
Beyond Seasons, Etablissements d’en Face, Brussels, Belgium
La frontière en tête, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France

1999
Information Days 1999, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Die Grenzen im Kopf, Kunstverein Villa Streccius, Landau, Germany

1998
Les vrais Héros s’amusent tout seuls, Les Témoins Oculiste, Brussels, Belgium

1997
Structures, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de la Ville de Liège, Belgium

1996
Art & Nature »Elément feu«, Espace 251 Nord, Liège, Belgium

1994
Interférence, Galerie Koma, Mons, Belgium

1993
Entraxis, Venice Biennal Off, Chiostro San Nicolo’, Lido, Venice, Italy

1992
Papier Libre, Grand-Hornu, Belgium


1991
Inauguration Espace Escaut, Espace Escaut, Brussels, Belgium
Quinze Artistes belges à Barcelona, Capella de la Cruz, Barcelona, Spain

1990

Lauréats, Prix du Hainaut, Grand-Hornu, Belgium

1989
Ça peint de Noël, Galerie Koma, Mons, Belgium
Univers trois - 4, Maison de la Culture de Tournai, Belgium 
Ouvrons les Ateliers 1989, Atelier Ste-Anne, Atelier de Recherches sur la Communication, Brussels, Belgium

1988

Recherche 88, Fondation de la Tapisserie, des Arts du Tissu et des Arts muraux de la Communauté française de Belgique, Eglise St-Nicolas, Tournai, Belgium
En Quête d’auteur, Eglise St-Nicolas, Tournai, Belgium
La jeune Peinture belge, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium


1987
Recherche 87, Fondation de la Tapisserie, des Arts du Tissu
et des Arts muraux de la Communauté française de Belgique, Eglise St-Nicolas, Tournai, Belgium
L’Art La Ferme, Musée de St Michel-en-Thiérache, Saint-Michel, France

1986
Art-Foot, Stade Leburton, Tubize, Belgium
Les Traces de Tintin dans l’imaginaire, Maison de la Culture de Tournai, Belgium

1985
La Fête de la Gravure, Deuxième Biennale internationale de Gravure, Musée d’Art moderne, Liege, Belgium
Confrontation 85, Hôtel de Ville, Brussels, Belgium
La jeune Peinture belge, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

1984
Griffes, Traces, Empreintes, Salle du Bailly, Cul-des-Sarts, Couvin, Belgium

1983
Prix de la Ville de Tournai, Halle aux Draps, Tournai, Belgium

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

Artist's Book L'Escaut

LINES

04. Sep 2020 - 06. Nov 2020
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EDITH DEKYNDT

06. Sep 2019 - 19. Oct 2019
DÜSSELDORF

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50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967-2017

08. Sep 2017 - 17. Nov 2017
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Edith Dekyndt

28. Apr 2017 - 17. Jun 2017
BERLIN

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