Wim Delvoye

WIM DELVOYE

Born Wervik, 1965 lives and works in Ghent, Belgium

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Wim Delvoye, Louvre, Paris (FR)

Wim Delvoye, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (AUS)

Wim Delvoye, MONA, Hobart (AU)

Wim Delvoye: Rorschach, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris. (FR)

Wim Delvoye, Patricia Low Gallery, Gstaad (CH)

Wim Delvoye, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing (CN)

Wim Delvoye, MONA, Hobart (AU)

Wim Delvoye, Robilant + di Voena, London (UK)

Wim Delvoye: Dessins & Maquettes, MAMAC Nice (FR)

Wim Delvoye, Musée Rodin, Paris (FR)

Knocking on Heaven's Door, BOZAR, Brussels (BE)

Cloaca No 5, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal (CAN)

Wim Delvoye: Torre, Guggenheim Collection, Venice (IT)

Sex Rays, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Genève (CH)

Wim Delvoye, Ernst Museum (Mucsarnok Nkft), Budapest (HU)

Cloaca No 5, Glenbow Museum, Calgary (CAN)

Wim Delvoye, Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow (RU)

Wim Delvoye, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (BE)

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

Cloaca Quattro, Xin Beijing Gallery, Beijing

Wim Delvoye: Cloaca 2000 - 2007, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg

Scale Models & Drawings, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv

Cloaca N° 5, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung (Taiwan)

Bronzes, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami

Scale Models & Drawings, Sperone Westwater, New York

Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto

Cloaca - New & Improved, The Power Plant, Toronto

Oeuvres sur papier 1968 - 2004, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris

Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon

Gothic, Public Art Fund Project, New York

Fabrica, C-Arte, Prato

Vitraux, Galerie Obadia, Paris

“Cloaca - New and Improved”, New Museum, New York

Museum Kunst-Palast, Düsseldorf

Marble Floors, Sperone Westwater, New York

Porin Taidemuseo, Pori (Finland)

Sex Rays, Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg

Gothic Works, Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester

Gothic Works, Sperone Westwater, New York

Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Genève

Cloaca- New and Improved, Migros Museum, Zürich

“Cement Truck”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

“CLOACA”, MuHKA, Antwerp

Galleria Sperone, Rome

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

Galerie Laura Pecci, Milan

Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen (Denmark)

11 Duke Street, London

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Open Air Museum Middelheim, Antwerp

Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Galleria Sperone, Rome

Galleria Cardi, Milan

Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund (Sweden)

Gallery Tanit, München

Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, Limoges

Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg

Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California

Modulo, Centro diffusor de Arte, Lisbon

Galleria Tucci Russo, Torino

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Galerie Lehman, Lausanne

Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Galerie Lehmann-Faust, Genève

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Torino

Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Flemish Masters - that's life, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (USA)

Eating Art, Fundacio Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona (ES)

Skin, Fondation Claude Verdan, Lausanne (CH)

Super Organism - CAFAM Biennale, Beijing (CN)

Second Skin, Ma Galerie, Paris (FRANCE)

Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels (BE)

From Picasso to Koons - the artists as jeweller, Museum of Art and Design, New York (USA)

Wunderkammer, Botanique, Brussels (BE)

Ecce Homo, Museum van Deinze & Leiestreek, Deinze (BE)

The State of Things. Contemporary Art of China & Belgium, Bozar Brussels (BE) & NAMOC, Beijing (CN)

Bilder vom Künstler, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)

Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CAN)

Exploded View, OAG, Toronto (CAN)

Skin, The Wellcome Collection, London (UK)

Hareng Saur: Ensor & Contemporary Art, SMAK, Ghent (BE)

Superabundant, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Kent (UK)

Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London (UK)

The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (USA)

Colossal - Kunst Fakt Fiktion, Kalkriese (DE)

Unconditional Love, Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT)

Messiahs, MODEM, Debrecen (HU)

Sk-Interfaces, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)

3rd Moscow Biennial, Moscow (RU)

The State of Things, Bozar, Brussels (BE)

Poëtique du Chantier, Musée Château d'Annecy, Annecy (FR)

Animations/Fictions, MNAC, Bukarest (RO)

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 (USA)

Comme des Bêtes, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (CH)

Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter, Oui, 56-58 bd. de l'Esplanade, Grenoble (FR)

Ad Absurdum, MARTa, Herford (DE)

Evolution : from Object to Man, Max Lang Gallery, New York (USA)

Umedalen Skulptur, Umedalen Skulpture Park, Umedalen (SE)

Dichter op de Huid, Fort Asperen, Asperen (NDL)

Less is less, more is more, that's all, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France)

Close Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)

Take me there, Show me the Way, Haunch of Venison, New York (USA)

Negatech, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires (AR)

Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO, Rome

The Aggression of Beauty II, Arndt & Partner, Berlin

Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Washington

Intersezione III, Parco Archeologico di Scolacium, Catanzaro

I am as You will be, Cheim & Read, New York

Guesthouse 2007, Mudam Luxembourg

Fiction@Love, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai

Yellow Pages Artists, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris

Birdspace, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson (USA)

The Complex of Respect, Kunsthalle Bern

Close Up, Art Centre Silkeborg, Silkeborg (DK)

Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum

The Originals: Neo-Esthetics of Animamix, Moca Shanghai (Shanghai)

Take a walk on the wild Side, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich

World Team - Artists of the Ball, Museum der Bildende Kunste, Leipzig

Nous nous sommes tant aimés, Collections de Saint-Cyprien, Saint-Cyprien (FR)

Reconstruction #1, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe (UK)

Into Me/Out of Me, PS1, New York (USA)

Eldorado, Mudam, Luxemburg

Art'Fab, La Citadelle, Monaco

Reflections, Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen (DK)

Envisage, Biennial de Shanghai, Shanghai

D'étonnants Détours, FNAC de Picardie, Amiens

Le Tableau transparent et le Diaphane, Musée national de Monaco, Monaco

Human Nature, SoFa Gallery, Bloomington (USA)

Bêtes de Style, Mudac, Lausanne (CH)

Diagnose [Kunst], Kunst-Museum Ahlen.

Into Me/Out of Me, Kunstwerke Berlin, Berlin

Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Marco, Vigo

Visionary Belgium, Bozar, Brussels

La Beauté de l'Enfer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

Domicile, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne

L'Idiotie, Domaine Pommery, Reims

Burlesques Contemporains, Jeu de Paume, Paris

Die Obere Hälfte, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn

Big Bang, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Slow Art, MKP, Düsseldorf

Birdspace, McDonough Museum of Modern Art, Youngstown

Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Lyon

Ex 05.01.03103, Cartin Collection, Hartford

Connexions, Mamco, Genève

Convergence,798, Beijing

Two Asias/Two Europes, Duolun Museum, Shanghai

Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro

Birdspace, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

Because the Earth is 1/3 Dirt, CU Art Museum, Boulder

Settlements, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne

Making Visible, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen

La Mort devant Soi, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneve

Birdspace, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

Giganten/Giants, Den Haag Sculptuur 2004, Den Haag

Lustwarande 2004, De Oude Warande, Tilburg

Continental Breakfast - 45th October Salon, Belgrade

Tatu - tattoo, Royal Museum, Brussel

Needful things: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Hors d'Oeuvres, CAPC Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux

O Estado das Cousas, Marco, Vigo

Birdspace, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers

Tongue in Cheek, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch

Qu'est-ce que la photo sculpture, Frac Limousin, Limoges

Granada de fondo, Centro José Guerrero, Granada

Muhka - A choice, Muhka, Antwerpen

No Canvas, Galleria Cardi, Milano

Extra, Swiss Institute, New York

The Disenchanted Mountain, Tour Fromage, Aosta

Beaufort 2003, Belgian coastline

Phantom of Desire, Neue Galerie, Graz

De Manessier à Wim Delvoye, Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg

The Ideal City, Biennial of Valencia, Valencia

Jan Hoet presenteert: Delvoye - Hammons, Les Brigitinnes, Brussel

GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Scenery, Nuova Icona Gallery, Venice

Paradigma of Love, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz

Vanités Contemporaines, Musée d'Art Roger Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand

Scatalogue, SAW Gallery, Ottawa

Models & Mavericks, Het Domein, Sittard

Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2003, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo

Outlook 2003, Athens

Sense of Wonder,Herzliya Museum of Modern Art, Herzliya (Israël)

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

To Whom it may Concern, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco

Busan Biennial, Busan, Korea

Melodrama, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada

Vidéo Topiques, Musée d'Art Moderne de Strasbourg, Strasbourg

Der Berg, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg

From Pop to Now, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio

Give and Take, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Eine Barocke Party, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

The Overexcited Body, Palazzo dell' Arengario, Milan

Confidences, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg

The Silk Purse Project, Arnolfini, Bristol

Between Earth and Heaven, PMMK, Ostend

Sous les ponts …, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg

Irony, Fondaçion Mirò, Barcelona

Sonsbeek 9 - LocusFocus, Arnhem (the Netherlands)

Belgisch Atelier Belge, Dexia Gallery, Brussels

Un art populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art contemporain, Paris

Ironia, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian

Marking the Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Styx - Projektionen, Kunsthalle Trier, Trier

De Spiegel van het Verlangen, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk (Belgium)

Arte Y Embutidos, Galeria dMuseo, Caracas (Venezuela)

Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya (Israël)

Over the Edges, SMAK, Ghent

Le fou dédouble, Chateau d'Orion, Orion (France)

Zeitwenden - ausblick, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna

Partages d' exotisme, 5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon

Arte all' Arte, Arte Continua, San Gimignano.

American Bricolage, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York

Visiones de Latinoamérica - No es sòlo lo que vas. Pervertiendo el minimalismo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

La Consolation, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble (France)

De opening, SMAK, Ghent

L' Envers du Décor, Institut d' Art contemporain, Villeurbanne (France)

Ruralia, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori (Finland)

48th Biennale di Venezia, d' APERTutto, Venice

Zeitwenden - ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

Animal, Musée Bourdelle, Paris

Dehors - dedans, Musée d'Art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux

Spatiotemporal, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm

Cartographers, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest

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

Cet été là, CRAC du Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète (France)

Kritische Elegantie, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

L' Envers du Décor, Musée d'Art moderne Villeneuve d'Asq, Villeneuve d' Asq (France)

Baroque, The Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

Aspects de l'art actuel en Belgique, FRAC Nord-pas de Calais, Dunkerque (France)

The Summer of 1998, Het Domein, Sittard (the Netherlands)

Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South-Korea.

Biennale de Cétignie, Cétignie, Montenegro

Cartographers, Galerije Grada Zagreba, Zagreb (Croatia)

… Objets? FRAC des Lorraine, Bourgogne, Alsace, Metz

Everything that's interesting is new / The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens School of Fine Arts,

Athens

Sammlung Sonnabend. Von der Popart bis heute, Deichtorhallen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

Relaciones, Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San José (Costa Rica)

Interzones (Copenhagen 96), Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen

Under Capricorn (Art in the Age of Globalisation), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / City Gallery, Wellington (New Zealand)

ARS 95, Nykytaiteen Museo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Issues of Empire, Guggenheim Gallery/Chapman University, Orange, California

Sculptur & Object, Galleri Wallner, Malmö

EV+A Invited, Limerick

Icastica, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna

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

Cocido y Crudo, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Post-Human, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Curios and Mirabilia, Chateau d'Orion, Orion (France)

Good News, Galleria Cardi, Milan

Documenta IX, Kassel

Selectie Belgische kunstenaars voor Documenta IX, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (Belgium)

9th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney

Post-Human, FAE Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne / Castelo di Rivoli, Rivoli / Deste Fondation, Athens

Kunst, Europa, Belgien, Niederlande, Luxemburg, Kunstverrein, Düsseldorf

Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna / Musei Comunali, Rimini

Desplazamientos, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas

Altrove, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Prato

Blau, Farbe der Ferne, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg

Aperto, Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Artists (from Flanders), Palazzo Sagredo, Venice

Belgique, une nouvelle génération, FRAC de la Loire, Clisson

Confrontaciones, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid

Kunstenaars van Vlaanderen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent

Confrontatie & Confrontaties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent

BIBLIOGRAPHY

John Mcdonald, 'Foreign Exchange', SMH-Spectrum, February 18-19, pp.12-13

Matt Smith, “A Challenging Encounter with Modern Art”, The Mercury, December 10, 2011, pp.8-9

Katrina Strickland, `Gallery anything but pretty', The Weekend Australian Financial Review, 22-23 January 2011, p.10

Isabelle Loring Wallace, `Deep Shit: thoughts on Wim Delvoye's Cloaca Project', in: Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, 2011, pp.217-236

Luis Jacob (ed.), `Commerce by artists', Art Metropole, Toronto, 2011, pp. 350-356

Claude Lorrent, `Wim Delvoye: Knocking on Heaven's Door, BOZAR Brussels, 20 October, 2010- 23 January 2011, pp. 148-167

Alvaro De Benito, Wim Delvoye - The End of Anthropocentrism, Arte al limite, February 2010, pp. 54-63

Michel Onfray, `Michel Onfray on Wim Delvoye', in: Eldorado, Mudam Luxembourg, 2009.

`Interview with Belgian artist: Wim Delvoye', Oriental Art Finance, September, China, 2008, p 36-45.

Emily Stokes, `Belgian Gothic', Financial Times, Art Of Our Time, March 17, London, 2008, p. 20.

Nicolas Bourriaud, `Interview with Wim Delvoye', Bing, May-September 2007, p. 2-9.

Paul Laster, `Bringing Home The Bacon,' Art Asia Pacific, N° 55, September-October, 2007, New York, p. 154-159.

`Wim Delvoye in China', Xin Beijing Art Gallery, May 12 - May 26 2007,  Beijing, China, 2007.

Timothy Close, Juli Cho Bailer, Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, 16 June 2007 - 3 February 2008, 2007, p. 1.

Gerardo Mosquero and Dan Cameron, `Conversations with artists series: Wim Delvoye', Cloaca, New Museum of Contemporary Art,25/01 - 28/04, New York, 2002.