Edith Dekyndt

Edith Dekyndt (born 1960; Ypres) is a visual artist.

Her work observes, identifies, and transforms the performative phenomenology of ordinary materials, objects, and gestures.

She lives and works in Brussels and Berlin.

Work and career

Dekyndt established herself as an artist in the mid-1990s. Since then, she has become best known for working with everyday objects. These are typically forced into a transformation that leads to material transcendence, be it by means of chemical and physical reactions, or deceptively simple interactions with the human body. The documentation of such processes is essential to the work, which ranges across all sorts of media: video, photography, sound, installation, and performance. Dekyndt also channels in her art a myriad of influences, from literature, art history, philosophy, to science.

Dekyndt is represented internationally by industry-leading galleries: Galerie Konrad Fischer and Karin Guenther in Germany, Greta Meert in Belgium, and Carl Freedman in the UK.

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions Source:

Ne pas laver le sable jaune, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE (2023) l'Origine des choses, Bourse du Commerce, Paris, France (2023) Area of Inertia, Laennec Chapel, Pinault Collection, Paris, France (2022) Concentrated Form of Non-Material Energy, St. Matthäus Kirche, Berlin, Allemagne (2022) Visitation Zone, Riga International Biennal of Contemporary Art, Riga, Lettonie (2020); The Ghost Year, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE (2020) They shoot Horses, (Part 2), «Biennalsur», Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de America del Sur, Museo de la inmigración, Buenos Aires, AR (2019) The Black The White The Blue, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, DE (2019) The Lariat, VNH galerie, Paris, FR (2019) Blind Objects, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK (2017) Slow Objects, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK (2017) Air, rain, pain, wind, sweat, tears, fear, yeast, heat, pleasure, salt, dust, dreams, odors, noises, humidity, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, DE (2016) Strange Fruits, Greta Meert Gallery, Brussels, BE (2016) Ombre indigène, Wiels, Brussels, BE (2016) Mer Sans Rivages, Musée de l’Abbaye de sainte-Croix (Partnered with le FRAC des Pays de la Loire), Les sables d’Olonne, FR (2016) Théorème des Foudres, Le Consortium, Dijon (2015) Chronology Of Tears, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE (2015) Slow Stories, FOCUS Résonance, Biennale de Lyon, La BF 15, FR (2013) Mexican Vanities, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK (2013) La femme de Loth, Synagogue de Delme, FR (2011) Dieu rend visite à Newton, FRIART, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Friburg, CH (2011) Les Ondes de Love, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Grand’Hornu, BE (2009) Agnosia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL (2009) Any Resemblance To Persons, Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental, BPS 22, Charleroi, BE (2004) Laboratory 01, Espace l’Escaut, Brussels, BE (1995)

Group exhibitions Source:

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) / New York / US Albright-Knox Collection / Buffalo / New York / US Progressive Collection / Cleveland / US Cranford Collection / London / UK Witte de Whit Museum / Amsterdam / NL Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) / FR FRAC Picardie / FR FRAC Lorraine / FR FRAC des Pays de La Loire / FR FRAC Alsace / FR FRAC Réunion / FR Musée d’Art Contemporain (MAC's) / Le Grand Hornu / BE Musée d’Ixelles / Brussels / BE Banque Nationale de Belgique / BE Communauté Française de Belgique / BE B.P.S. 22 Centre de Création Contemporaine / Charleroi / BE Collection de la Province de Hainaut / BE