David Claerbout

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David Claerbout

Born 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium. Lives and works in Antwerp and Berlin.
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David Claerbout, The Close, 2022. Exhibition view: David Claerbout, Hemispheres, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2022. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

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.

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Selected works

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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
Birdcage (day for night study with more blue skies), 2023-2024
Ink, pastel and gouache on paper
75 x 110 cm (29 1/2 x 43 1/4 in) (unframed)
82,3 x 117,9 x 4,7 cm (32 3/8 x 46 3/8 x 1 7/8 in) (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 (Brain on Fire (2)), 2022-2023

Acrylic paint, pastel, pencil and gouache on paper

117,7 x 112 cm (unframed)
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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 (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 (Colors melting away), 2022
Acrylic and pencil on paper
81,5 x 75,4 cm (32 1/8 x 29 3/4 in) (unframed)
90,5 x 84,5 x 3,5 cm (35 5/8 x 33 1/4 x 1 3/8 in) (framed)
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David Claerbout
Wildfire (Fire (Hell) made by water colors), 2020

Acrylic paint on paper mounted on cardboard

80 x 87 cm (unframed)
96,5 x 89 x 3,5 cm (framed)
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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
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
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 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
The Pure Necessity (Power Sculpture), 2017

Washed ink, pencil, acrylic paint on paper
50 x 70 cm (unframed)
69 x 89 x 3,5 cm (framed)
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David Claerbout
Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016

Color animation
Duration 50:00 min
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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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Gallery Exhibitions

David Claerbout, Wildfire Gallery Weekend Beijing 2023

David Claerbout, Wildfire

Gallery Weekend Beijing 2023
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce its participation in Gallery Weekend Beijing with a solo presentation of the Belgian artist David Claerbout. On view will be the large-scale video installation Wildfire (meditation...
May 26—June 11, 2023
798 Art District, Beijing
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External Exhibitions

film With David Claerbout

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With David Claerbout
Film with David Claerbout 21.4. – 22.6.2024 FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin
April 21—June 22, 2024
haubrok foundation
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The Close, a new video work by David Claerbout has been added to the Concertgebouw Brugge collection. Intended as a short, emotional history of the camera, The Close reflects on what Claerbout...
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Schloss Lieberose, Brandenburg

ROHKUNSTBAU 26

This year's edition of ROHKUNSTBAU 26 presents the works of 22 artists including Etienne Chambaud, David Claerbout, Philippe Parreno and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. The exhibition title I am Nature – Of Vulnerability. Survival in the risk society defines a...
June 19 – October 3, 2021
David Claerbout at De Pont Museum, Tilburg
De Pont Museum, Tilburg

David Claerbout at De Pont Museum, Tilburg

In disquieting video installations David Claerbout tries to come to grips with the passage of time. He lengthens time, allows the present and past to fuse, and sometimes even seems to bring time to...
June 5 – August 29, 2021
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Spotlight: David Claerbout

For our Spotlight this week we present David Claerbout's Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016. Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity is a work by David Claerbout, based on the classic 1967 animated adaptation of...
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The Nature of Art with David Claerbout at Busan Museum of Art

David Claerbout presents two major film installations: Wildfire (meditation on fire), 2019-2020 and Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016 as part of the exhibition The Nature of Art at the Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea....
April 23 – September 12, 2021
David Claerbout at Garage Museum
Garage Museum, Moscow

David Claerbout at Garage Museum

Unseen Sound is the first solo exhibition of Belgian artist David Claerbout in Russia. His work is best defined as a hybrid, where media dissolve into one another using video, photography, film, and...
March 26 – May 2, 2021
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"The Challenge: We are in this together" – Esther Schipper for The New Institute

For its December newsletter, titled 'The Challenge: We are in this together', The New Institute asked Esther Schipper – among other thinkers and practitioners – to share her insights and analysis on the current...
David Claerbout at Kunst Museum Winterthur
Kunst Museum Winterthur

David Claerbout at Kunst Museum Winterthur

David Claerbout has distinguished himself in recent years with video works that are as spectacular as they are multi-layered. The artist's multimedia oeuvre – located, so to speak, between the media –...
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David Claerbout at Galerie Rudolfinum
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

David Claerbout at Galerie Rudolfinum

David Claerbout Olympia Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague January 29 – April 12, 2020 Artist Talk The Laziness of Action Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague January 29, 2020, 5 – 6 pm More information on the...
January 29 – April 12, 2020
Artist Talk with David Claerbout
Zuoz, Plazzet, Switzerland

Artist Talk with David Claerbout

E.A.T./Engadin Art Talks with David Claerbout 'SILENT - LISTEN' - 10 YEARS Zuoz, Plazzet, Switzerland January 25, 2020, 12:30 – 12:45 pm Find the full program HERE.
January 25, 2020, 12:30 – 12:45 pm
David Claerbout at BFI London Film Festival 2017
BFI Southbank, NFT3 London

David Claerbout at BFI London Film Festival 2017

David Claerbout's work Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity is included in this year's BFI London Film Festival. 'A hypnotic and lyrical reworking of The Jungle Book, that removes its anthropomorphism and its human characters...
October 14, 2017 at 9:20pm
Screening of David Claerbout's Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity
Cinema Zuid, Antwerp

Screening of David Claerbout's Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity

Cinema Zuid in Antwerp will present an exclusive screening of David Claerbout's work Die Reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016. Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity is a color animated cartoon by David Claerbout, based on the classic...
August 5, 2017 at 7 PM
David Claerbout: Olympia
Schaulager, Basel

David Claerbout: Olympia

Through October 22, 2017
Messe Basel, Basel

David Claerbout And Gabriel Kuri Included In Art Basel Unlimited 2017

June 15 – 18, 2017
David Claerbout in conversation with J.J. Charlesworth
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

David Claerbout in conversation with J.J. Charlesworth

David Claerbout talks with J.J. Charlesworth about his most recent work.
March 15, 2017 at 3pm
David Claerbout: Olympia
MUHKA, Antwerp

David Claerbout: Olympia

From April 28, 2017
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Films

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David Claerbout on his work Wildfire for Gallery Weekend Beijing 2023

David Claerbout on his work Wildfire

for Gallery Weekend Beijing 2023

David Claerbout on his work Wildfire

Publications

David Claerbout The Silence of the Lens

David Claerbout

The Silence of the Lens
In a conversation with Jonathan Pouthier, curator of the cinema programme of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), video artist David Claerbout reflects for the first time in depth...
2022
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