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David Claerbout
Olympia (The real-time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years), starting in 2016

Two channel video installation (color, silent, HD animation)
Duration 1000 year
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David Claerbout
The woodcarver and the forest, 2025
Single channel 4K HD video installation (color, stereo), b/w photographic prints
Duration: 20 h
50 x 89 cm (b/w photographs) (6 parts, each)
Edition of 7
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David Claerbout
Woodcarver (A postcard from the past), 2025
Ink, pastel and gouache on paper
76 x 110 cm (unframed)
83,6 x 117,7 x 4,7 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
The woodcarver and the forest (in front of the work), 2025
Ink, pastel and gouache on paper
75,5 x 110 cm (unframed)
83,5 x 118 x 5 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Backwards Growing Tree (The two seasons), 2024 - 2025
Ink, pastel and gouache on paper
76 x 119 cm (unframed)
79,5 x 123 x 4 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Backwards Growing Tree (Study Winter and Snow falling to the Sky), 2024
Ink, pastel and gouache on paper
76 x 119 cm (unframed)
79,5 x 123 x 4 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Birdcage (absolutely non violent), 2023-2024
Ink, pastel and gouache, and tape on canson montval aquarel paper
75 x 110 cm (unframed)
82,3 x 117,2 x 4,6 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Birdcage (explosion white cancels colour perception), 2023-2024
Ink, pastel and gouache on paper
115 x 110 cm (45 1/4 x 43 1/4 in) (unframed)
122,8 x 117,8 x 4,7 cm (48 3/8 x 46 3/8 x 1 7/8 in) (framed)
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David Claerbout
Backwards Growing Tree (R.T. by R. Change), 2023 - 2024
Ink, pastel and gouache on paper
76 x 119 cm (unframed)
79,5 x 123 x 4 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Birdcage, 2023
Single channel color video projection, color, stereo audio
Duration: 1 h 36 min (loop)
Edition of 7
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David Claerbout
Wildfire (Sulci and Giri), 2022

Pencil, watercolor and China ink on Fine Art inkjet print on Hahnemühle etching paper
61 x 67 cm (unframed)
77,2 x 83,5 x 4 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
The Close, 2022
The Close, 2022
Single channel video projection, black & white, 6 channel surround sound
Duration: 15:00 min
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David Claerbout
The Close set image (planned and then denied), 2022
Pencil, watercolor and China ink on Fine Art inkjet print on Hahnemühle etching paper
61 x 107 cm (unframed)
87,4 x 133,4 x 4 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Wildfire (Kleurstudie. Imbalance in Destruction), 2022

Acrylic and pencil on paper

87 x 80,2 cm (unframed)
96 x 89 x 3,5 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Wildfire (meditation on fire), 2019-2020
Single channel video projection, 3D animation (stereo audio, color)
Duration: 24 min
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David Claerbout
Wildfire (Nocturnal view with water), 2019

China ink and pencil on paper

46 x 61 cm (unframed)
62 x 82 x 3,5 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
The pure necessity (J.B. vs Life), 2017
Washed ink, pencil, acrylic paint on paper
36 x 48 cm (14 1/8 x 18 7/8 in) (unframed)
61,7 x 81,7 x 3,5 cm (24 1/4 x 32 1/8 x 1 3/8 in) (framed)
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David Claerbout
Aircraft (F.A.L.), 2015-2021
Single channel video projection, black & white, stereo audio
Dimensions variable
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David Claerbout
the confetti piece, 2015-2018

Double channel video projection, 3D animation (color, silent)
Duration: 18:25 min
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David Claerbout
KING (after Alfred Wertheimer’s 1956 picture of a young man named Elvis Presley) , 2015-2016

Single channel video projection, black & white, silent, HD animation
Duration: 10 min
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David Claerbout
Radio Piece (Hong Kong) in collaboration with RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain, 2015

Single channel video projection, color, binaural sound over headphones
Duration 11:40 min
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David Claerbout
Oil workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain, 2013

Single channel video projection, HD animation, colour, silent
Duration: infinite
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David Claerbout
Highway Wreck, 2013

Single channel video, HD animation, black & white, silent
35 minutes loop
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David Claerbout
White House, 2006

Single channel video projection, colour, stereo over headphones and speakers
Duration: 10 hours approx.
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David Claerbout
Travel, 1996-2013

Single channel video, HD animation, color, stereo sound
Duration: 12 minutes
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David Claerbout
Cat and Bird in Peace, 1996

Video on monitor, silent
Duration 6:33 min (loop)
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