Berlinde De Bruyckere was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1964, where she currently lives and works.
Since her first exhibition in the mid-eighties, De Bruyckere’s sculptures and drawings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions in major institutions worldwide. These include remarkable solo shows such as No Life Lost, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden (2024), Crossing a bridge on fire, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal (2023), City of Refugee I, Commanderie de Peyrassol, Flassans sur Issole, France (2023), City of Refugee II, Diocesanum Museum Freising, Freising, Germany (2023), Berlinde De Bruyckere. PLUNDER/ EKPHRASIS, MO.CO, Montpellier, France (2022), Berlinde De Bruyckere, PEL/ Becoming the figure, Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany (2022), Berlinde De Bruyckere. Engelenkeel, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2021), Aletheia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy (2020), It almost seemed a lily, Hof Van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium (2019), Il Mantello (5x5x5 event for Manifesta 12), Santa Venera Church, Palermo, Sicily (2018), Berlinde De Bruyckere, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (2018), Embalmed, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark (2017), Berlinde de Bruyckere. Suture, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria (2016); Berlinde De Bruyckere. No Life Lost, Hauser & Wirth New York (2016); Berlinde De Bruyckere. Penthesilea, Mus.e d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France (2015); Berlinde De Bruyckere. The Embalmer, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2015); Berlinde De Bruyckere. The Embalmer, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria (2015); Berlinde De Bruyckere, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (2015); Berlinde De Bruyckere. In the Flesh, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (2013); Philippe Vandenberg & Berlinde De Bruyckere. Innocence is precisely: never to avoid the worst, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands (2012) which travelled to La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France (2014); We are all Flesh, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (2012); The Wound, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey (2012); Mysterium Leib. Berlinde De Bruyckere im Dialog mit Cranach und Pasolini, which opened at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany and travelled to Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2011); DHC / ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada (2011); and ‘E.n’, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands (2005).
In 2013 De Bruyckere was selected to represent Belgium at the 55th Venice Biennale where she unveiled her monumental work Kreupelhout – Cripplewood, a collaboration with Nobel Prize novelist J.M. Coetzee.
Recently De Bruyckere has extended her field of activity towards the performing arts as a Scenographer, in close collaboration with photographer Mirjam Devriendt. Projects include: Mariavespers, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017); Nicht Schlafen Les Ballets C de la B, Ruhrtriënnale, Bochum, Germany (2016) touring to Sadler’s Wells, London, England (2017) and Penthesilea La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium (2015).
2024
No Life Lost, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden
Crossing a bridge on fire, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
2023
City of Refugee I, Commanderie de Peyrassol, Flassans sur Issole, France
City of Refugee II, Diocesanum Museum Freising, Freising, Germany
Crossing a bridge on fire, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
2022
Berlinde De Bruyckere. PLUNDER/ EKPHRASIS, MO.CO, Montpellier, France
Berlinde De Bruyckere, PEL/ Becoming the figure, Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany
2021
Berlinde De Bruyckere. Engelenkeel, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2020
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
Aletheia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Berlinde De Bruyckere, San Sebastian, Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium
A single bed, a single room, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
It almost seemed a lily, Hof Van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium
2018
De Wonderkamer van Axel Vervoordt, DIVA. Museum voor Edelsmeedkunst, juwelen en diamant, Antwerpen, Belgium
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Berlinde de Bruyckere, Chiesa di Santa Venera sulle Mura della Pace, Palermo, Italy
2017
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Aarhus 2017, European Capital of Culture, curator: Juliana Engberg, Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus, Denmark
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2016
Berlinde De Bruyckere, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Berlinde De Bruyckere. Suture, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Berlinde De Bruyckere. No Life Lost, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA
Nicht Schlafen,Les Ballets C de la B, Ruhr Triënnale, Bochum, Germany
2015
Berlinde De Bruyckere. The Embalmber, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Berlinde De Bruyckere. The Embalmber, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Washington Velvets (Two from Flanders), The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Berlinde De Bruyckere. Penthesilea, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2014
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
Berlinde De Bruyckere, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Il me faut tout oublier, Philippe Vandenberg, , Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2013
Berlinde De Bruyckere‚ Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Kreupelhout, Belgian Pavillion, 55th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2012
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Three Sculpture, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Philippe Vandenberg, Innocence is precisely, never to avoid the worst, De Pont, Tilburg, Holland
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
We are all Flesh, ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts), Melbourne, Australia
2011
Mysterium Leib. Berlinde De Bruyckere im Dialog mit Cranach und Pasolini, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Berlinde De Bruyckere / John Currin, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Into One-Another to P.P.P, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Usa
Mysterium, Leib Berlinde de Bruyckere im Dialog mit Cranach und Pasolini, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
Berlinde de Bruyckere, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal
Venetian and Flemish Masters Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2010
In-finitum, Le Moulin, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hauser&Wirth Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Elie, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Obsolete Body/ New Body, Tihomir Milovac, Zagreb, Croatia
Portfolio: afb. L'image, Librairie St. Hubert, Brussels, Belgium
2009
All creatures Great and Small, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Le Printemps de Septembre, MAMCO, Toulouse, France
Berlinde De Bruyckere in dialogue with Benedetto Da Maiano (1442-1497), Spedale di Santa Fina, San Gimignano
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Luca Giordano, We are all Flesh, Hauser & Wirth (Old Bond Street), London, UK
2008
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Espace Claude Berri, Paris, France
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
2007
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Berlinde De Bruyckere ‚Äî Schmerzensmann, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Schmerzensmann V, Bijloke Campus, Gent, Belgium
2006
Undercover-aus dem Vebogenen, Quadriennale 06 Artcity, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Schmerzensmann, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
2005
One, De Pont Stichting voor hedendaagse kunst / Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Berlinde De Bruyckere, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2004
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
2003
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
2002
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Galleria CD, Tielt, Belgium
Caermersklooster, Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent, Belgium
Een thuis voor een beeld, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
2001
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
And Everything is Stitched-Together, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium
Berlinde de Bruyckere, Galleria Continua, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
C. Reybroeck, 1997, Maison de quartier de Rosendael Centre, Dunkerque, France
Aanéén-gegroeid, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
Poten, Poten Zullen Bomen Worden, Park ter Beuken, Lokeren, Belgium
In Flanders' Fields‚ Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium
Aanéén-genaaid, De Pont Stichting voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg, The Netherlands
1998
Tweeluik 98, Campo-Santo, Sint-Amandsberg, Gent, Belgium
1997
De Slaapzaal, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
1996
Tekeningen 1995-96, Vrienden van het PMMK, Ostend, Belgium
1995
Sint-Lucaspassage, Antwerpen, Belgium
Innocence Can Be Hell, Open Air Museum for Sculpture, Antwerpen, Belgium
Middelheim, Antwerpen, Belgium
Dialo(o)g II (with Federico Fusi), Das Belgische Haus, Köln, Germany
1994
Washington Velvets (Two from Flanders), The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
1993
Huis, Galleria Joost Declercq, Gent, Belgium
1991
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Gallerie van Academie, Kasteel Blauwendael, Waasmunster, Belgium
1990
Reflecting on Confinement and death, Museo Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Galleria S. & H. de Buck, Gent, Belgium
1988
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Galleria Fred Lanzenberg, Brussel, Belgium
2022
What the FFAC- Foire Foraine d'Art Contemporaine, Le Centquatre, Paris, France
Substances, Collegium, Arevalo, Spain
Le Bonheure de Vivre, Forma, Paris, France
Phallus. Nom & Vorm, University Museum, Ghent, Belgium
2021
Truc à Faire, Galleria Continua, Paris, France
2020
Seeing Touch, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Passions and Fervour. The Art of Powerful, LWL, Museum für Kunst und Kultur, The Art of Powerful Emotions', Münster, Germany
Rendez - Vous, Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Still Still Life, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
EVERGREEN I. Berlinde De Bruyckere in Dialogue with Old Masters and Salvatore Scarpitta, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
La rivoluzione siamo noi. Collezionismo italiano contemporaneo / We are the Revolution. Contemporary Italian Collecting, XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, Piacenza, Italy
2019
Sublimi Anatomie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Convex/Concave. Belgian Contemporary Art, TANK Shangai, Shanghai, China
Top Floor. Artists Choose From Our Collection, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Hyperrealism Sculpture \ Ceci n'est pas un corps, La Boverie, Liège, France
Icons. Adoration and Worship, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
The Collection (1), Highlights for the future, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium
This is not a collection, PARCUM Museum for Religious Art, Heverlee, Belgium
Souvenirs de voyage, Musée de Grenoble, La collection Antoine de Galbert, Grenoble, France
The Naked Truth, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands
Opéra Monde. The quest of a total work of art, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
The House Where You Live Forever, Garage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Genese, L.A.C., Narbonne, France
Reshaped Reality. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture, National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei / Taiwan
2018
The Body in Color, Metropolitan Museum, NY, USA
In Situ, curator: Marie-Caroline Allaire-Matte, Medieval sites in France
Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
De Wonderkamer van Axel Vervoordt, DIVA. Museum voor Edelsmeedkunst, juwelen en diamant, Antwerp, Belgium
E dimmi che non vuoi morire, il mito di Niabe, Santuario di Ercole Vincitore, organized by the Istituto Villa Adriana Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Rome
Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body, Metropolitan Museum, NY, USA
Faith Love Hope, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
Het Gouden Paviljoen, De Warande, Voorjaar 2018, curator: Annelies Nagels & Dries Segers, Turnhout, Belgium
De Wonderkamer van Axel Vervoordt, DIVA. Museum voor Edelsmeedkunst, juwelen en diamant, Antwerpen, Belgium
Creating ourselves: the self in art, Whitechapel Gallery, Londen, UK
2017
Het Vlot- Kunst is (niet) eenzaam, curator: Jan Fabre & Joanna De Vos, Mu.Zee, Oostende, Belgium
Schitterend Verlangen, MAS, Antwerp, Belgium
If on Trondheim's Night a Traveller..., curator: Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
Proof of Life/Lebenszeichen, Weserberg Museum, Bremen, Germany
Façade 2017: Face your freedom, curator: Thom Schaar, CBK Zeeland, Middelburg, The Netherlands
A Good Neighbour, 15th Istanbul Biennial, curator: Ingar Dragset & Michael Elmgreen, Istanbul, Turkey
Art Parcours 2017 - Basel outdoor sculpture, curator: Samuel Leuenberger, Basel, Switzerland
Ruptures, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Beyond the pleasure principle - Affective operations, curator: Maria Brewinska, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Intuition (werktitel), curator: Daniela Ferretti & Axel Vervoordt, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Rik Wouters & The Private Utopia, MOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
In Search of the Present, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Time is out of Joint, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Fur and Feathers, Curator: Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart, Musée departemental de Flandre, Cassel, France
The Inner Skin: Art and Shame, curator: Friederike Fast, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Cranach-Meister-Marke-Moderne, Curator: Beat Wismer, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Continua Spheres ENSEMBLE, Le Centquatre, Paris, France
Hyper Real, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Ecce Homo, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium
WeerZien, De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2016
Animalty, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
Loss-in memory of Babi Yar, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Rik Wouters & The Private Utopia, MOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
Flesh: Skin and Surface, York Art Gallery, York, UK
What Remains. The world of Cesare Lucchini, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Zot Geweld/Dwaze Maagden, Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium
Krasj 3, O.L. Vrouwekerk, Lieferinge, Belgium
In Search of the Present, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
Loss-in memory of Babi Yar, curator: Bjorn Geldhof, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
On Surface, An der Oberflache, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Zot Geweld/Dwaze Maagden, Curator: Hans Martens , Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium
Behind the curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance, Curator: Beat Wismer, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Les Pierres Sauvages, Kunstcentrum Ten Boogaerde, Koksijde, Belgium
Quand fondra la beige, ou ira le blanc, The Righi Collection at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Platel//Collection, MADMusee, Liege, Belgium
Capital: Debt, Territory, Utopia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof‚ Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
The Importance of Being, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015
Under the Skin, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
The Importance of Being, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Importance of Being‚ Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Flaesh, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
I Belgi. Barbari e Poeti, MACRO, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Roma, Italy
Post Mortem, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Vormidable, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands
The Importance of Being‚ Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte, Havana, Cuba
The war which is coming is not the first one-Great War 1914-2014, Mart, Rovereto, Italy
Leibhaftig/In the Flesh, Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany
Follia Continua, Galleria Continua anniversary exhibition at CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
Substance, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
2014
Late Harvest, Nevada Museum of Art, Las Vegas, USA
La disparition des lucciole, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Barockt, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Trop Humain, MAMCO, Geneve, Switzerland
Leibhaftig/In the Flesh, Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany
Passion Secretes, Tripostal, Rijsel, France
Death is your body, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Het landschap en de romantische verleiding, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
Leibhaftig. Der menschliche Körper zwischen Lust und Schmerz Kunstkammer Rau, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
2013
Kunstenfestival Watou 2013, Watou, Belgium
Bazaar Belgique, Centrale, Bruxelles, Belgium
Theatre du monde, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Body Pressure. Sculpture since the 1960s, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Les Papesses. Louise Bourgeois, Camille Claudel, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
De Anatomische Les, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2012
Through the Looking Glass, ME Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Sint Jan, St. Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
2011
Memories of the Future, The Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Bites off, La Conciergerie, Paris, France
Collection Falkenberg, Collection Olbricht, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Family Life, Elaine Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Sex and Death (permanent collection), MONA, Hobart, Tasmania
Tra. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Shape of Things to Come, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2010
Gwangju Biennale, 10.000 lives, Gwangju, South Korea
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK
The Saatchi Gallery at Ipswich Art School, Ipswich, UK
The Surreal House, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Che cosa sono le nuvole, Museo Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Linguaggi e sperimentazioni, MART Rovereto, Italy
Reference and Affinity, Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
Ghosts, 1646, The Hague, The Netherlands
Difference in Display, Niet Normaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prometheus, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
The Visceral Body, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Disembodied, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
2009
Moscow Biennial, Different Venues, Moscow, Russia
In-finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Silence, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Le Sort Probable de l'Homme Qui Avait Avalé le Fantôme, La Conciergerie, Paris, France
Le Printemps de Septembre, MAMCO, Toulouse, France
UN-SCR-1325, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Damaged Romancticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton NY, USA
Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon, The Forbidden Gaze, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
A house is not a home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Négron, France
Assenze / Presenze>01, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, Italy
(Self)Portrait of a Lady, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milano, Italy
Compass in Hand, MoMa, New York, USA
A Story of the Image, Old and New Masters from Antwerp Shangai Art Museum, Shangai, China
A Story of the Image, Old and New Masters from Antwerp National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
2008
Life! Biomorphic Forms in Art, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Diana and Actaeon, The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body, Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Les Misérables, Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, France
Damaged Romancticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum the University of Houston, Houston, USA
Markiezin zkt. kunst. Actuele kunst in het kasteel van Gaasbeek, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium
ACADEMIA Qui es-tu?, Chapelle de l'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
The Strangers, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
After Nature, New Museum 235 Bowery, New York, USA
God & Goods, Villa Manin Centro D'arte Contempranea, Codroipo, Italy
Kaleidoscope II, RAM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
UN-SCR-1325, Resolution 1325, Galerie Geukens & De Vil, Antwerpen, Belgium
Doing it my way (Perspectives on Belgian art), Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
Aerials of sublime transscapes, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
Die Hände der Kunst, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
2007
An Archaeology, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Artempo, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Old school, Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London, UK
Timer.01, Intimità/Intimacy, Milan, Italy
Bodycheck - 10. Triennale Kleinplastik, Alte Kelter Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
Basel Art Fair 2007, Basel, Switzerland
ZONDER TITEL Moussem Festival, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
SCHMERZ / PAIN, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
VIT<A>RTI, De Kunstkas, Kemzeke, Belgium
Should clouds be wasted and little fish, CC De Bogaard - Begijnhof Sint-Truiden Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jenny Saville, Dan Flavin, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
SHELTER, Kasteel Het Nijenhuis (Museum De Fundatie), Heino/Wijhe, The Netherlands
Waterverf, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
Passie voor het ongrijpbare, Museum Minderbroeders, Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Galleria Continua / Le Moulin (Opening New Exhibition Space), Le Moulin, Paris, France
2006
Corps étranger, Quimper, France
BeTEKEN II, Cultureel Centrum, Hasselt, Germany
Zoo, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium
Vom Pferd erzählen, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature & Allegory, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, USA
Of Mice and Men, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
ARS 06, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Berlin Biennale BB4, Berlin, Germany
Slot Expo Cultureel Comité Sint-Amandsberg 1966-2006, Gent/Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
Gorge(l), beklemming en verademing in/via kunst, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, Belgium
2005
Senza Confine (15th year), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
War is over, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Pijn, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium
La peau est ce qu'il y a de plus profond, Musee des Beaux Arts, Valenciennes, France
Emilie Fresco, De Noker, Mechelen, Belgium
Dona - Arbre, Fundació Espais d'Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
Baroque - Neobaroque - The Hell of the Beautiful, El Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
Figure it out, HVCCA, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
Nous le passage, Poziezomer van Watou, Belgium
Slow Art, Kunst aus Flandern und Niederlanden, Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Soul, PMMK, Oostende, Belgium
Manmano, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Springtide, ICA, Philadelphia, USA
Visionaire Belgium, Bozar, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Flexible 4 (identitities), Rheinisches Industrienmuseum, Euskirchen, Germany
Werken uit de collectie & peter Buggenhout-Berlinde de Bruyckere, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Gent, Belgium
2004
Flexible 4 (identities), Landesgalerie Oberösterreich (O) | Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg (NL) | Bradts Klaedefabrik, Odense (DK)
Non Toccare la Donna Bianca, Arte Contemporanea fra diversità e liberazione, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Catastrofi Minime, MAN, Nuoro, Italy
De humana proportione, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Animals, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Vanitas, IKOB, Eupen, Belgium
Solo Quint II, Sint-Blasius Ziekenhuis, Dendermonde, Belgium
2003
Maria Magdalena, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent, Belgium
Flexible 4 (identitities), The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Methamorphosis, De Schrijnwerkerij Geel, Belgium
Art Athena, Athens, Greece
Beaufort 2003, Den Haan-Oostende, Belgium
Echigo-Tsumari Triennial 2003, Japan
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50esima Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia, Venezia, Italy
Modelvrouwen/Role-Models, De Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Opzij van het kijken, Watou, Belgium
Europe Exists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tessalonica, Greece
Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Sacrale Kunst van onze Tijd, C.C. Hasset, Hasset, Belgium
Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Models and Mavericks, Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Documentatietentoonstelling, Rosbeiaardzaal-Stadhuis Grote Markt, Dondermonde, Belgium
Disegnando, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
2002
Hedendaagse kunst in Limburgse verzamelingen, CIAP, Hasset, Belgium
Methamorphosis, L.A.C., Sigean, France
Methamorphosis, Museo Abello, Barcelona, Spain
Human-ism I, Hamburg, Germany
Human-ism II, Orion Art Gallery, Oostende, Belgium
Zinnebeeldig, 7 symbolen in cultureel erfgoed en hedendaagse Kuns: een confrontatie, Caemersklooster, Gent, Belgium
The Drawings Center. 25th Anniversary Benefit, New York, USA
Eva Venus Madonna. Beelden van vrouwelijkheid, Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen, Belgium
2001
Mukha te gast/de keuze van Florent Bex, De Beyerd, Breda, The Ntheerlands
De Lege Ruimte/Blinde Vlek, Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Gent, Belgium
Het versluierd beeld, Provincila Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst- Begijnhof, Hasselt, Belgium
Sonsbeek 9 Locus/Focus, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Metamorphosis, Accademica Belgica, Roma
Embodiment, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kunst tegen Onrecht, Culturel Centrum De Velinx, Tongeren, Belgium
De spiegel van het verlangen, Broelmuseum, Kapel Groeningeabdij, BBl, Kortrijk, Belgium
Preview/Voorutblik, RAM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Secret Gardens, Kasteel, Rekem, Belgium
Y.E.L.L.O.W., Actuel Kunst en Psichiatrie, Van Disselhuis, Geel, Belgium
Vrouwenzaken/Zakenvrouwen, Kunsthal Sint Pietersabdij, Gent, Belgium
2000
Everything needs time…, Saint Michael's Church, Monition, UK
Le fil rouge, Third Biennial, Louvian la Neuve, Belgium
Selection Summer, 2000, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
10 Paar, Art from Estonia and Flanders, Kasteel van Kuressaare, Estonia
Zomer in Poeke, Kasteel van Poeke, Aalter, Belgium
Lust Warande, pleasure garden, De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands
10 Paar, Art from Estonia and Flanders, Kuurne, Belgium
Kunst tegen Onrecht, Het Geuzenhuis, Gent, Belgium
Le jeu des 7 familles, MAMCO, Musée d’art Moderne et contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Metamorphosis, Museo Archeologico di San Gimignano, San Gimignano
1999
Art from SMAK, Witte Zaal – Sint-Lucas Gent, Gent
Art from SMAK in Gent, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Spiral-Kunstcentrum Sittard on tour, Museum Ludwig Forum, Aken, Germany
Mensen tekenen werken op papier, Galerie CD, Tielt, Belgium
Zich ophouden bij, Hallezalen van het Belfort, Brugge, Belgium
Sense of Drawing, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Trattenendosi, Zitelle, Antichi Granai, Venezia
Het betoverde plain, Abdijplein en Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, The Netherlands
In de ban van de ring, Hasselt, Belgium
Dialogen met het waarneembare, Vierkante Zaal, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
De wereld volgens… België, Oda Park, Venray, The Netherlands
1998
Bildgewordenen Wirklichkeiten, Ikob, Bütgenbach, Germany
Werken op papier, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
Romanzero, Kunstcentrum Sittard, Sittard, The Netherlands
SMAK in Watou, Voor het verdwijnt en daarna, various locations, Watou, Belgium
Speelhoven '98, Speelhoven, Aarschot, Belgium
Aspects de l'art actuel en Belgique, Frac Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France
1997
Reality revisited – de Herinnering als verlangen, Fondaciò La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
1996
Shelter, Park Wolfslaer Breda, The Netherlands
Zij-sporen: kunst op het spoor, Antwerpen, Belgium
De Rode Poort, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Above / Below the surface, MUHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerpen (B) & Nykytaiteen Museo, Helsinki, Finland
1995
Sculptuur. Aspecten 1995, Park Sebrechts, Zand & Speelmansrei, Brugge, Belgium
La condition humaine, een confrontatie, Witte Zaal, Gent, Belgium
The Otherness, Galerie im Kunsthaus Essen, Part one, Essen & Galerie im Kunsthaus Essen, Bremen, Germany
1994
EV+A, Limerick, Austria
Beeld in park, Felix Happark, Brussel, Belgium
Vista, Solitary Visions / Dynamic View, Park Wolfslaar, Breda, The Netherlands
Transfer, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany
Transfer, Musée des Beaux-Arts – Hotel de Ville, Charleroi, Belgium
1993
Zoersel 93, Domein van Halle, Zoersel, Belgium
Kontakt ‘93, Park Klinkeshöfchen, Eupen, Belgium
Escale / Stopover / Tussenstop, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Communauté Urbaine de Lille, Villeneuve d’Asq, France
Transfer. Gent, Recklinghausen, Charleroi, Centrum voor Kunst & Cultuur Sint Pietersabdij, Gent & Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen 1994 & Musée des Beaux-Arts – Hotel de Ville, Charleroi 1994, Belgium
Gent te gast / de keuze van Jan Hoet, De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands
1992
Symposium 92-94, Hotel Navarra, Brugge, Belgium
Synergie 92, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Gent & Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle & Opus Operandi, Gent & Campo-Santo, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
Galleria Joost Declercq, Gent, Belgium
1991
Gele zaal, Gent, Belgium
1990
Zuid-Nederlandse Ontmoetingen, Beeldende Kunst, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Laureaat Jeune Peinture belge, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussel, Belgium
Onbegrensd beeld, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Monumental III. Monumental 1990, Park Malou, Brussel, Belgium
Monumental V. Monumental 1990, Kinepolis-Brupark, Brussel
Tuin voor beelden Orangerie, Gent, Belgium
Aletliers d’été / Sommeratelier, Deutsche Messe, Hannover, Germany
1989
Aspecten 1989, Actuele Driedimensionale Kunst, Stadspark Sebrechts, Brugge, Belgium
Tekeningen door beeldhouwers gemaakt, Bogardenkapel, Brugge, Belgium
1988
Affiniteiten, Bogardenkapel, Brugge, Belgium
Buggenhout, De Brabandere, De Bruyckere, Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussel, Belgium
1986
Antichambre, Fabriek voor Entartete kunst, Ex-fabriek Alsberghe-van Oost, Gent, Belgium