Edith Dekyndt
1960
born in Ypres, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels and Berlin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Specific Subjects, Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Song to the Siren, Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Italien
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, 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
2024
LEAPS OF FAITH, Art Museum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
2023
Icônes: An exhibition of works from the Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
2022
Something New, Something Old, Something Desired, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Futura, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 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
