Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye
biography
born in Wervik, Belgium, in 1965
lives and works in Gentbrugge, Belgium
solo exhibitions
2010
Knockin' on heaven's door, BOZAR Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Musée Auguste Rodin, Paris, France
MAMAC Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain, Nice, France
2009
D11, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Wim Delvoye, Biennale di Venezia @ Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Cloaca No 5, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, Canada
2008
Wim Delvoye, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (until 31 January 2009)
Sex Rays, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Genève, Switserland
Wim Delvoye, Ernst Museum (Mucsarnok Nkft), Budapest, Hungary
2007
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Cloaca Quattro, Xin Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China
Wim Delvoye: Cloaca 2000 - 2007, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2006
Scale Models & Drawings, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Cloaca N° 5, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Bronzes, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switserland
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, United States
2005
Scale Models & Drawings, Sperone Westwater, New York, United States
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004
Cloaca – New & Improved, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Oeuvres sur papier 1968 – 2004, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2003
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Gothic, Public Art Fund Project, New York, United States
Fabrica, C-Arte, Prato, Italy
2002
Vitraux, Galerie Obadia, Paris, France
“Cloaca – New and Improved”, New Museum, New York, United States
Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Marble Floors, Sperone Westwater, New York, United States
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Sex Rays, Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg
Gothic Works, Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, UK
Gothic Works, Sperone Westwater, New York, United States
Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève, Switserland
2001
Cloaca- New and Improved, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switserland
2000
“Cement Truck”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
“CLOACA”, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
1999
Galleria Sperone, Rome, Italy
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
11 Duke Street, London, UK
1998
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
1997
Open Air Museum Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1996
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1995
Galleria Sperone, Rome, Italy
Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Gallery Tanit, München, Germany
Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, Limoges, France
1994
Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg
Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, United States
Modulo, Centro diffusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
1993
Galleria Tucci Russo, Torino, Italy
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Galerie Lehman, Lausanne, Switserland
1992
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, Unites States
1991
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
Galerie Lehmann-Faust, Genève, Switserland
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Torino, Italy
1990
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, United States
1989
Galerie Bébert, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1988
Galerie Riekje Swart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galleria Andrea Murnik, Milan, Italy
Galeria Plus-kern, Brussels, Belgium
1986
Galerie Plus-kern, Brussels, Belgium
group exhibitions
2011
When The Fairy Tale Never Ends, fordPROJECT, New York City, USA
2009
Poëtique du Chantier, Musée-Château d’Annecy, Annecy, France (until March 2010)
Double Happiness / Brussels. Beijing, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (until 10 January 2010)
Sk-Interfaces, Casino Luxembourg – forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Messiahs, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
Flower Power, CRAA, Villa Giuglia, Italy
Colossal – Kunst Fakt Fiktion, Museum und Park Kalkriese, Kalkriese, Germany
Salon du Dessin, Palais de la Bourse, Paris, France
Objectschilderijen, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen – Zulte, Belgium
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, Burlington Gardens, London, UK
Dans le Cochon tout est bon, Galerie Antonio Nardone, Brussels, Belgium
Superabundant, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Kent, UK
2008
Tendance, Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France (until 18 January 2009)
Take me There, Show me the Way, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA (until 9 January 2009)
Power to the People, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium (until 17 January 2009)
Close Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (until 11 January 2009)
Anatomie, les peaux du dessin, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France (until 17 January 2009)
UPDATE, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Animations/Fictions, MNAC, Bukarest, Romania
sk-Interfaces, FACT, Liverpool, UK
CHANEL Mobile Art Container, Star Ferry Car Park, Central, Hong Kong
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Ars Libris, The Cartin Collection
The Glass Experience, Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, United States
Comme des Bêtes, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switserland
Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter, Oui, 56-58 bd. de l’Esplanade, Grenoble, France
Ad Absurdum, MARTa, Herford, Germany
Evolution : from Object to Man, Max Lang Gallery, New York, United States
Umedalen Skulptur, Umedalen Skulpture Park, Umedalen, Sweden
Dichter op de Huid, Fort Asperen, Asperen , the Netherlands
Less is less, more is more, that’s all, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2007
Negatech, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO, Rome, Italy
The Aggression of Beauty II, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Washington, United States
Intersezione III, Park of Scolacium, Catanzaro, Italy
I am as You will be, Cheim & Read, New York, United States
Guesthouse 2007, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxemburg
2006
Fiction@Love, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Yellow Pages Artists, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
Birdspace, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, United States
The Complex of Respect, Kunsthalle Bern, Switserland
Close Up, Art Centre Silkeborg, Silkeborg, Denmark
Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum, United States
The Originals: Neo-Esthetics of Animamix, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Take a walk on the wild Side, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switserland
World Team – Artists of the Ball, Museum der Bildende Kunste, Leipzig, Germany
Nous nous sommes tant aimés, Collections de Saint-Cyprien, Saint-Cyprien, France
Reconstruction #1, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, UK
Into Me/Out of Me, PS1, New York, United States
Eldorado, Mudam, Luxembourg
Art’Fab, La Citadelle, Monaco, France
Reflections, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
Envisage, Biennial de Shanghai, Shanghai, China
D’étonnants Détours, FNAC de Picardie, Amiens, France
Le Tableau transparent et le Diaphane, Musée national de Monaco, Monaco, France
Human Nature, SoFa Gallery, Bloomington, United States
Bêtes de Style, Mudac, Lausanne, Switserland
Diagnose [Kunst], Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Germany
Into Me/Out of Me, Kunstwerke Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2005
Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Marco, Vigo, Spain
Visionary Belgium, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
La Beauté de l’Enfer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Domicile, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
L’Idiotie, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Burlesques Contemporains, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Die Obere Hälfte, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany
Big Bang, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Slow Art, MKP, Düsseldorf, Germany
Birdspace, McDonough Museum of Modern Art, Youngstown, United States
Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Ex 05.01.03103, Cartin Collection, Hartford, United States
Connexions, Mamco, Genève, Switserland
Convergence,798, Beijing, China
Two Asias/Two Europes, Duolun Museum, Shanghai, China
2004
Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Birdspace, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, United States
Because the Earth is 1/3 Dirt, CU Art Museum, Boulder, United States
Settlements, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Making Visible, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
La Mort devant Soi, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneve, Switserland
Birdspace, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, United States
Giganten/Giants, Den Haag Sculptuur 2004, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Lustwarande 2004, De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Continental Breakfast – 45th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
Tatu – tattoo, Royal Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Needful things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
Hors d’Oeuvres, CAPC Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
O Estado das Cousas, Marco, Vigo, Spain
Birdspace, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, United States
Tongue in Cheek, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
2003
Qu’est-ce que la photo sculpture, Frac Limousin, Limoges, France
Granada de fondo, Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain
Muhka – A choice, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium
No Canvas, Galleria Cardi, Milano, Italy
Extra, Swiss Institute, New York, United States
The Disenchanted Mountain, Tour Fromage, Aosta, Italy
Beaufort 2003, Belgian coastline, Belgium
Phantom of Desire, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
De Manessier à Wim Delvoye, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg
The Ideal City, Biennial of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Jan Hoet presenteert: Delvoye – Hammons, Les Brigitinnes, Brussels, Belgium
GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Scenery, Nuova Icona Gallery, Venice, Italy
Paradigma of Love, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
Vanités Contemporaines, Musée d’Art Roger Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Scatalogue, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Models & Mavericks, Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2003, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Outlook 2003, Athens, Greece
2002
Sense of Wonder,Herzliya Museum of Modern Art, Herzliya, Israel
Melodrama, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
La Part de l’Autre, Carré d’Art Nîmes, Nîmes, France
From Pop to Now, Tang Teaching Museum, New York, United States
To Whom it may Concern, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Unites States
Busan Biennial, Busan, Korea
Melodrama, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain
Vidéo Topiques, Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Der Berg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
From Pop to Now, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, United States
2001
Give and Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Eine Barocke Party, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Overexcited Body, Palazzo dell’ Arengario, Milan, Italy
Confidences, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The Silk Purse Project, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Between Earth and Heaven, PMMK, Ostend, Belgium
Sous les ponts …, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Irony, Fondaçion Mirò, Barcelona, Spain
Sonsbeek 9 – LocusFocus, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Belgisch Atelier Belge, Dexia Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Un art populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art contemporain, Paris, France
Ironia, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
Marking the Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Styx – Projektionen, Kunsthalle Trier, Trier, Germany
De Spiegel van het Verlangen, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk, Belgium
Arte Y Embutidos, Galeria dMuseo, Caracas, Venezuela
Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
2000
Over the Edges, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Le fou dédouble, Chateau d'Orion, Orion, France
Zeitwenden - ausblick, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Partages d' exotisme, 5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Arte all’ Arte, Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
American Bricolage, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, United States
Visiones de Latinoamérica - No es sòlo lo que vas. Pervertiendo el minimalismo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1999
La Consolation, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
De opening, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
L' Envers du Décor, Institut d' Art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Ruralia, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
48th Biennale di Venezia, d' APERTutto, Venice, Italy
Zeitwenden - ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Animal, Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France
Dehors - dedans, Musée d'Art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
1998
Spatiotemporal, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Cartographers, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Turkey
Magritte en de Hedendaagse Kunst, PMMK, Ostend, Belgium
Angeldust, Hallen, Bruges, Belgium
Cartographers, Galerija Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Voor het verdwijnt en daarna – Watou 1998, Watou, Belgium
Patchwork in progress 3, MAMCO, Geneva, Switserland
Cet été là, CRAC du Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
Kritische Elegantie, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
L' Envers du Décor, Musée d'Art moderne Villeneuve d'Asq, Villeneuve d' Asq, France
Baroque, The Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Aspects de l’art actuel en Belgique, FRAC Nord-pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
The Summer of 1998, Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands
1997
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South-Korea
Biennale de Cétignie, Cétignie, Montenegro
Cartographers, Galerije Grada Zagreba, Zagreb, Croatia
… Objets? FRAC des Lorraine, Bourgogne, Alsace, Metz, France
1996
Everything that's interesting is new / The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Sammlung Sonnabend. Von der Popart bis heute, Deichtorhallen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Relaciones, Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San José, Costa Rica
Interzones (Copenhagen 96), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Under Capricorn (Art in the Age of Globalisation), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands / City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1995
ARS 95, Nykytaiteen Museo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Issues of Empire, Guggenheim Gallery/Chapman University, Orange, California, United States
Sculptur & Object, Galleri Wallner, Malmö, Sweden
1994
EV+A Invited, Limerick, Ireland
Icastica, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Opera Prima, Fuori Uso, Pescara; Flash Art Museum, Trevi and Cankarjev Dom Galerya, Ljubljana
Depois de Amanha / The Day after Tomorrow, Lisboa 94, Centro Cultural de Belèm, Lisboa, Portugal
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1993
Post-Human, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Curios and Mirabilia, Chateau d’Orion, Orion, France
Good News, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Selectie Belgische kunstenaars voor Documenta IX, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
9th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Post-Human, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switseland / Castelo di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy / Deste Fondation, Athens, Greece
1991
Kunst, Europa, Belgien, Niederlande, Luxemburg, Kunstverrein, Düsseldorf, Germany
Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna / Musei Comunali, Rimini, Italy
Desplazamientos, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain
Altrove, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
1990
Blau, Farbe der Ferne, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Aperto, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Artists (from Flanders), Palazzo Sagredo, Venice, Italy
Belgique, une nouvelle génération, FRAC de la Loire, Clisson, France
Confrontaciones, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Kunstenaars van Vlaanderen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
1988
Confrontatie & Confrontaties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium2010
public collections
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Museum Voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Oostende, Belgium
MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica
CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
FRAC - Limousin, Limoges, France
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
MARCA - Museo delle Arti Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA