Born 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Lives and works in Antwerp and Berlin.
Education |
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| 1992–1995 | National Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpen and Reichsacademy of Visual Arts Amsterdam |
Awards |
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| 2010 | Peill-Preis, Günther-Peill-Stiftung, Germany |
| 2007 | Will-Grohmann-Preis, Akademie der Künste, Germany |
| 2002–03 | DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2020 | David Claerbout: Laziness of Action, Kunst Museum Winterthur |
| 2019 | David Claerbout: The Pure Necessity, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, Zuoz |
| Olympia, MAST Foundation, Palazzo Zambeccari, Bologna | |
| 2018 | David Claerbout: Vision de nuit (Dark Optics), Les Abattoirs, Toulouse |
| David Claerbout, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz | |
| David Claerbout: Selected Works from the Collection, Espace Louis Vuitton München, Munich | |
| David Claerbout, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh | |
| 2017 | Olympia, Schaulager, Laurent Stiftung, Münchenstein |
| David Claerbout, Une exposition du 40e anniversaire du Centre Pompidou, Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes, Rennes | |
| Olympia, MNAC – Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona | |
| Olympia, M HKA, Antwerp | |
| 2016 | Olympia, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
| Future, De Pont Museum, Tilburg | |
| Die reine Notwendigkeit, Städel Museum, Frankfurt | |
| 2015 | David Claerbout, Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg |
| Projects Art Centre, Dublin | |
| Performed Pictures, MAMCO, Geneva | |
| David Claerbout, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand | |
| 2014 | GRIJS / GREY, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
| 2013 | David Claerbout, Kunsthalle Mainz |
| 2012 | Diese Sonne strahlt immer, Secession, Vienna |
| David Claerbout: The Time that Remains, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv | |
| Parasol Unit, London | |
| 2011 | WIELS, Brussels |
| David Claerbout: Architecture of Narrative, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2010 | David Claerbout: Uncertain Eye, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
| 2009 | The Shape of Time, De Pont Museum, Tilburg |
| 2008 | David Claerbout, Helen and Morris Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver |
| 2007 | David Claerbout, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2020 | Memling Now: Hans Memling in contemporary art, Musea Brugge – Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges |
| A Long Time Short, KAI10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf | |
| 2019 | Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden |
| 2018 | Image Profile: Aspects of the Documentary in MMK's Photography Collection, MMK 2, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2017 | Variable Dimensions – artists and architecture, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, Lisbon |
| The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm | |
| Ways of Seeing, ARTER, Istanbul | |
| 2016 | RealTIME, Kunstmuseum Bonn |
| Magical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography, Parasol Unit, London | |
| The Power of the Avant-Garde, BOZAR, Brussels (travels to National Museum Krakow 2017) | |
| Paradise on Earth. Landscapes from Bruegel to Rubens, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden | |
| 2015 | Future Present. Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Schaulager, Basel |
| RAY Fotografieprojekte, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and Louisiana Art Museum, Humlebaek | |
| Few Free Years: Von Absalon bis Zobernig. Schenkungen von Friedrich Christian Flick an die Nationalgalerie' Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin | |
| 2014 | Variation of the Moon, Nam June Paik Art Center, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea |
| You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney | |
| L'illusion des lumières, Palazzo Grassi, Venice | |
| 8th Busan Biennale, Busan | |
| Days of Endless Time, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. | |
| 2013 | Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah |
| The Red Queen, MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart | |
| More Light, 5th Moscow Biennale, Moscow | |
| 2012 | 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Media City Seoul 2012) Spell on you, Seoul Museum of Art |
| Museum Brandhorst, Munich | |
| 2011 | The World belongs to you, Palazzo Grassi, Venice |
| Fragments in Time and Space, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. | |
| MMK 1991-2011. 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt | |
| 2010 | Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion. Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM – Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe |
| São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo | |
Originally trained in painting and drawing, David Claerbout is known for his works using photography, video, digital technology and sound. His practice revolves around the concepts of temporality and duration, images suspended in a tension between stillness and movement, as well as the experience of dilated time and memory. David Claerbout says that he “sculpts in duration. The definition of duration is different from that of time: duration is not an independent state-like time, but an in-between state.” With his large-scale video-based installations, the artist makes the viewer a part of the work: whether by establishing a connection between the projected images on the screen and the audience, or by creating a spatial relationship between the screen itself and the exhibition space, or simply, by allowing a process by which “a single scene can develop into another by the presence of the spectator and a bit of time.”
