Wim Delvoye

Wim Delvoye (born 1965 in Wervik, West Flanders) is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Much of his work is focused on the body. As the critic Robert Enright wrote in the art magazine Border Crossings, “Delvoye is involved in a way of making art that reorients our understanding of how beauty can be created”. Wim Delvoye has an eclectic oeuvre, exposing his interest in a range of themes, from bodily function, and scatology to the function of art in the current market economy, and numerous subjects in between. He lives and works in Ghent (Belgium).

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
  • Tim, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
2019
  • Wim Delvoye, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2018
  • Wim Delvoye: One man show, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • Wim Delvoye, Galerie Perrotin, Shanghai, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
  • Wim Delvoye, Gallery Hyundai, Jongro-gu, Seoul, South Korea
2017
  • Wim Delvoye, Galerie Perrotin, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Wim Delvoye, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2016
  • Wim Delvoye, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Wim Delvoye, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2014
  • Wim Delvoye, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Saint Claude), 3e, Paris, France
  • Wim Delvoye, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013
  • Wim Delvoye, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Wim Delvoye, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Saint Claude), 3e, Paris, France
  • Wim Delvoye: Oeuvres Choisies : 1988 – 2011, Art Bärtschi & Cie, rue du Vieux Billard, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
  • Wim Delvoye, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • Contemporary art – Wim Delvoye at the Louvre, Musée du Louvre, 1e, Paris, France
  • Wim Delvoye, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2011
  • Wim Delvoye: Tattooed Tim Tours, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
  • Wim Delvoye, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
  • Wim Delvoye, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
2009
  • Wim Delvoye. D11, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Wim Delvoye. Torre, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
  • Wim Delvoye: Torre, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2008
  • Wim Delvoye New Works, Galerie Diehl, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Part II, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
  • Icons, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
  • ONLINE: My Funny Valentine, Galerie Perrotin, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2020
  • Cut Up: Cut Out, Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio, USA
  • Museum De Domijnen Presenteert II: Mens en dier, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
  • Wonderland, Galerie Perrotin, Shanghai, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
  • Recent Acquisitions Of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
  • Mappa Mundi, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
2019
  • I-D, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Bye, Bye And Hello: 40 Years Deweer Gallery, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • Recent Donations and Long-Term Loans, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
  • Qriosa, Galerie Alexis Pentcheff, Marseille, France
  • Nature in Art, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
  • Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA
  • S.M.A.K. 20 years. The Collection (1): Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Gent, Belgium
  • Salle des maquettes, Galerie de l’UQAM, Université du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2018
  • Maurizio Cattelan: The artist is present, Yuz Museum, Xuhui, Shanghai, China
  • Art & Craft, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
  • The Hollow, the Void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Inéchangeable, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
  • De Calder à Koons, bijoux d’artistes. La collection idéale de Diane Venet, MAD, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1e, Paris, France
  • Pardon My Language, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2017
  • Decoration never dies, anyway, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Never Ending Stories, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • St Moritz Art Masters, Robilant+Voena, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Artview 5, Design Museum Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Socle du Monde 2017, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
  • A Show, Inside Out: Outdoor Sculptures, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2016
  • Bric à brac : The Jumble of Growth, Today Art Museum, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
  • The shop facing the corner, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (Rue de la Concorde), Brussels, Belgium
  • Summer Group Show, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • THE EIGHTIES: A decade of extremes, M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
  • Something Old, Something New, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Shrines to Speed: Art And The Automobile: From The Minimal To The Postmodern, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Fortsetzung folgt : To be continued, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
2015
  • Mutated Reality, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • Belgique, Galerie Templon, Paris (rue Beaubourg), 3e, Paris, France
  • References, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Eppur si muove – Art et technique, un espace partagé, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
  • Politics & The Production of Space: The Written City, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • Give a Man a Mask and He Will Tell You The Truth, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  • Bricologie – La Souris Et Le Perroquet, Villa Arson Nice, Nice, France
  • Collector’s Room # 8, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • Empire of Dirt, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • 20 + 2 YEARS, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Sings/Words, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2014
  • Group Show, Bernier / Eliades, Athens, Athens, Greece
  • Jardins de Bagatelle II, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Munich, Germany
  • Collector’s Room #7: 35th Anniversary Edition – Part I, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
  • Various Artists – 30 Years of Torch, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • On the Blue Shore of Silence, Fitzroy Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
  • On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
  • Tattoo. From Maritime Heroes To World Art, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
  • Wrong’s What I Do Best, San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, California, USA
  • The Paradox of Sculpture, National Academy of Design, Midtown, New York, USA
  • Sculpture Show, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Chelsea, New York, USA
2013
  • Competent Corps (The Edit) / Oliver Beer – Shingo Yoshida / Response: Abilities, Villa Arson Nice, Nice, France
  • The Wizard’s Chamber, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
  • Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
  • Collective II, Art Bärtschi & Cie, rue du Vieux Billard, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
  • SOMETHING TURNED INTO A THING, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
  • ENSEMBLEMATIC, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Gent, Belgium
  • Time Capsule, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
  • International Art Series, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  • The Drawing Room, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2011
  • The State: The Coming Insurrection, Traffic, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • The Ephemeral, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Grève de la joie, Frac à Carquefou, Carquefou, France
  • Skin, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
2010
  • Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Popular: Brands, Symbols, Icons, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • An Unpardonable Sin, Castillo / Corrales, Paris, France
  • Changing The World, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Collection FAKE?, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Gent, Belgium
  • Brave New World: From the Perspective of Mudam Collection, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2009
  • Notions of the Artist, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2008
  • Sculpture is …, ARNDT Berlin, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
  • In stock – Uit stock, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands
  • Carte(s) Blanche(s) – film presentation FRAC, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Gent, Belgium

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