Born in Kortrijk/BE, 1969
Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp 1992-1995
Lives and works in Antwerp and Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2009
De Pont museum of contemporary art, Tilburg
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Hauser & Wirth, London
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Pinakothek der Moderne, München
2008
MIT LIST Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA
Yvon Lambert, ‘Then Came This’, New York
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, ‘After the Quiet’, St. Gallen/Switzerland
EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Belkin Galleries at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2007
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘David Claerbout’, Paris (travels to MIT LIST Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA; EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, De Pont Foundation, Tilburg; Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane)
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, ‘David Claerbout. 3 Works’, Brussels
2006
NCA Gallery, ‘Curator’s Eye – Vol. 1 David Claerbout’, Tokyo
2005
Akademie der Künste, ‘Background Time – Gezeiten’, Berlin
Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, Dundee
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Le Magasin, Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble
Yvon Lambert, ‘Visible Time’, New York
2004
Kunstbau im Lehnbachhaus, Munich
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor/CAN
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury/GB
2003
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Galleri K, Oslo
Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago di Compostela
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2002
Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
2001
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
2000
DIA Center for the Arts, ‘Project for the Internet: “Present” [www.diacenter.org/claerbout]’, New York
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, ‘Untitled New York
1999
Hallen, Kortrijk, ‘Caryatids’ [Permanent Sound-Installation commissioned by Christian Kieckens, Architects], Kortrijk
De Vereniging, S.M.A.K., Ghent
1998
Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels
1997
Montevideo Gallery, Antwerp
Argos, Kanal 20, Brussels
Group Exhibitions
2009
Mills College Art Museum, ‘Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture’, Oakland CA
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, ‘Sounds and Visions. Artist Video and Cinema Works from Europe’, Tel Aviv
Ernst Museum, ‘LOW Festival’, Budapest
Kunstmuseum Chur, ‘Gefrorene Momente’, Chur
2008
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Car Culture’, Scottsdale
Halle 14 / Universal cube, ‘The Subversion of Stillstand / Die Subversion des Stillstandes’, Leipzig (travels to: ACC Galerie, Weimar)
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum / Yale’s Art + Architecture Gallery, ‘Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture’, Ridgefield / New Haven
Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, ‘Doing it my way – Perspectives on Belgium Art’, Duisburg
Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, ‘The Morning After. Videoworks from the Goetz Collection’, Bremen
Hamburger Bahnhof, ‘Sichtbarwerden’, Berlin
Beffroi du Louvre, ‘Rêver l’horizon, autour de Paysage (1840) de Turner’, Lens à Bruay-la-Buissière (Pas-de-Calais)
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, ‘Stutter and Twitch’, Toronto
Circullo de Bellas Artes, ‘PhotoEspana’, Madrid
Hunter College Art Galleries, ‘Contemporary Representations of Night’, New York
Edith Russ Site for Media Art, ‘nach/sichten’, Oldenburg
Malmö Art Museum, ‘Fondazione Morra Greco. Archeology of Mind’, Malmö
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Panoramic Views’, Herzliya
Fondation Beyeler, ‘Venedig. Von Canaletto und Turner bis Monet’, Basel
Le Pavillon, ‘ArtFocus 5th Edition’, Jerusalem
Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Endless Sphere’, Kyiv
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Western Motel. Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art’, Wien
’41 Salon Nacional de Artistas. Image in Question’, Cali/Columbia
Netherlands Photomuseum, ‘Questioning History. The Past in the Present’, Rotterdam
2007
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, ‘Fiction Vs Réalité’, Lisbon
Kunstmuseum Bonn, ‘GOING STAYING. Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art’, Bonn
Lewis Glucksman Gallery. University of Cork, ‘Beyond the country. Perspectives of the land in historic and contemporary art’, Cork
Heidelberger Kunstverein, ‘Reality Crossings’, Heidelberg
Musée des Beaux-Arts, ‘Mois de la photo. Explorations narratives/Replaying Narrative’, Montreal
Bac Bâtiment d’art contemporain, ’12e Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement – Culture hors-sol’, Genève
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, ‘Flash Cube’, Seoul
Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, ‘Intocable. El ideal de la transparencia’, Valladoid
Lenbachhaus. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, ‘Perspektive 07’, Munich
MUHKA, ‘En verhaal van het beeld. The Story of an Image’, Antwerp
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, ‘In the Eye of the Storm’, St. Gallen
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Love Addiction: practices in video art from ’67 to the present’, Montefalcone
Bard College center for curatorial studies, ‘Stutter and Twitch’, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Argos, ‘Anachronism’, Brussels
Musée d’Ixelles, ‘Portrait de l’autre. L’hospitalité. Le rejet’, Ixelles
ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, ‘Imagination Becomes Reality. An Exhibition on the expanded concept of painting. Works from the Goetz Collection’, Karlsruhe
CAB Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, ‘The Leading Thread’, Burgos
Filmfestival Rotterdam, ‘Other than film’, Rotterdam
2006
Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, ‘Touch my Shadows. New media works from the Goetz Collection’, Warsaw
Rochester Art Center, ‘Something more than feeling’, Rochester MN
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, ‘Slow Motion’, Rotterdam
Phoenix Werke, ‘Idylle’, Hamburg (travels to DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca; Nationalgallery, Prague)
Frac Lorraine, ‘On/ff’, Metz
Z33, ‘Nr. 14 Light Play’, Hasselt
Hamburger Bahnhof, ‘Beyond Cinema’, Berlin
Haus der Kunst, ‘ClickDoubleClick – the documentary factor’, Munich (travels to Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Bozar, Brussels)
Yvon Lambert, ‘Message Personnel’, Paris
Villa Arson, ‘Intouchable’, Nice
Museum Franz Gertsch, ‘The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der Kunst von Barnett Newman bis heute’, Burgdorf/CH
Le Magasin, ‘Oeuvres vidéo de la collection Pierre Huber’, Grenoble
Argus Building, ‘Brighton Photo Bienniale’, Brighton
Dumont-Wyckhuyse, ‘Image In Motion’, Roeselare, Belgium
2005
Centro Cultural de Belem, ‘Lisboa Photo 2005’, Lisbon
Palais des Beaux-Arts, ‘Belgique Visionnaire’, Brussels
Museum Kunst Palast, ‘Slow Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden’, Düsseldorf
‘Le Printemps de Septembre’, Toulouse
Musée d’art moderne, ‘Voisins Officiel’, Lille
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, ‘Shadow Play. Shadow and Light in Contemporary Art – An Homage to Hans Christian Andersen’, Odense (travels to Kunsthalle Kiel 2005; Landesgalerie Linz 2006)
Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK, ‘What’s New, Pussycat?’, Frankfurt am Main
Biennale Prague, ‘Double Vision’, Prague
Fondazione Torino Musei, ‘Miniature from eighteenth century until today’, Turin
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, ‘Private View 1998-2000. Collection Pierre Huber’, Lausanne
Witte de With, ‘Monopolis’, Rotterdam
Hamburger Bahnhof, Rieckhallen, ‘Fast nichts. Minimal artworks’, Berlin
Seedamm Kulturzentrum, , ‘Manchmal weiss ich nicht, ob ich etwas wirklich erlebt oder ob ich es in einem Film gesehen habe. Von Olaf Breuning bis Sam Tayler-Wood. 33 Videoarbeiten aus der Sammlung Goetz in München’, Pfäffikon/CH
2004
Taipei Biennial, ‘Do You Believe in Reality?’, Taipei
Yvon Lambert, ‘Works I told you about’, Paris
Galerie Neue Meister, ’94-04. Zehn Jahre Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst in Dresden’, Dresden
Montevideo, ‘Channel Zero’, Amsterdam
Krinzinger Projekte, ‘Working Ethics. An Exhibition from a certain Flanders’, Vienna
Yokohama Museum of Art, ‘Non-Sect Radical: Contemporary Photography III’, Yokohama
Le Plateau, ‘Ralentir vite’, Paris
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
deSingel, ‘DVD Lounge Incidents / De Nachten’, Antwerp
2003
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘War (What is it Good for?)’, Chicago
Kunsthalle Vienna, ‘Attack! Kunst und Krieg in den Zeiten der Medien’, Vienna
Museet for Samtidskunst, ‘Body Matters’, Oslo
Galerie Neue Meister, ‘under ground’, Dresden
‘Outlook’, Athens
SMAK Stedelijk Museum Voor Aktuele Kunst, ‘Gelijk het leven is. Belgische kunst uit de collectie van het SMAK’, Ghent
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘Fast forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz’, Karlsruhe
Hasselt, ‘Guided by Heroes’, Hasselt
Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof, ‘...lautloses irren, ways of worldmaking, too…’, Berlin
Caermersklooster, ‘Still/Move’, Ghent
CRAC Centre de Recherche et d’Action Culturelle, ‘Contre/Temps. Thierry Kuntzel. David Claerbout’, Valence
MUHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘Once upon a time…’, Antwerp
2002
‘31st International Film Festival’, Rotterdam
De Appel, ‘Haunted by Detail’, Amsterdam
daadgalerie, ‘Teaser’, Berlin
Musée des arts contemporains MAC’s Grand-Hornu, ‘L’Herbier et le Nuage’, Hornu
Art & Public, Geneva
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, ‘Group Exhibition’, Antwerp
Museum für Moderne Kunst, ‘Das Museum, die Sammlung, der Direktor und seine Liebschaften’, Frankfurt
Museum der bildenden Künste, ‘Malerei ohne Malerei’, Leipzig
2001
Korean Art Foundation, ‘Unreal Time Video’, Seoul
INOVA Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, ‘Winter Exhibition: Tiong Ang, Serhiy Bratkov, David Claerbout, José Antonio Hernandez-Diez’, Milwaukee WI
Museum D’Hondt-Daenens, ‘Aubette’, Deurle
Centre pour l’image contemporaine, ‘La vérité est ailleurs’, Geneva
‘Berlin Biennale 2’, Berlin
Sammlung Goetz, ‘Videoserie in der Black Box, 6 Künstler – 6 Positionen’, Munich
Cultural Centers Strombeek, ‘Touch me…’, Sint-Niklaas, Roeselare
Galerie Ascan Crone, ‘Passion’, Part I in Hamburg, Part II in Berlin
2000
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Huis aan de Werf, cur. Moritz Kung, Utrecht
Le Grand Hornu, Mons
La Monnaie, ‘L’Opera, un chant d‘Étoiles’, Brussels
‘18th World Wide Video Festival’, Amsterdam
1999
Fotohof, Salzburg
[Exhibition with works from the Collection of the Flemish Community], Hallen, Bruges
MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Trouble Spot Painting’, Antwerp
‘Nuevos Caminos’, Vigo, Galicia
FRI ART, Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Transference. Locations in Memory and Time’, Fribourg
hARTware, ‘Dis.Location’, Dortmund
Galerie Ferdinant Van Dieten, ‘Reflexive Figuration’, Amsterdam
1998
Shed im Eisenwerk, ‘Not strictly private’, Frauenfeld/CH
Gallery by Night, ‘Intimate Strangers’, Budapest
Beelden Buiten, ‘I never promised you a rose garden’, Tielt
1997
Watertoren CHK, Vlissingen
Pica en Flandes, Barcelona
Palais des Beaux-Arts, ‘Prix de la jeune peinture belge’, Brussels
1996
Montevideo Gallery, ‘Tekeningen en projecten’, Antwerp
Awards and prizes
2007
Will-Grohmann-Preis der Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Cultuurprijzen Vlaanderen, Beeldende Kunst
Grants
2002
DAAD, Berlin
Works in public collections:
MAC-Grand Hornu
Musée d’art contemporain de Strassbourg
Sammlung Goetz, München
Province of Antwerp
ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Theatre National de la Monnaie, Brussels
MUHKA, Antwerp
FRAC Nord Pas de Calais
SMAK, Ghent
Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen
Flick Collection
Centre Georges Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Emanuel Hoffmann Stiftung, Basel
Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Lenbachhaus, München
Autostadt, Wolfsburg
GAM, Galleria D’Arte Moderna et Contemporanea, Torino
De Pont museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Tilburg
Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Musées Royaux, Brussels
Collection Pierre Huber, Switzerland
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Mudam, Luxembourg
Ellipse Foundation
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Bergen Art Museum, Bergen
Pinakothek der Moderne, München
Collection François Pinault
Collezione La Gaia
