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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 BruyckereEngelenkeel,  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). 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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 BruyckereEngelenkeel 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 BruyckereGemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands

Berlinde De Bruyckere. PenthesileaMusée 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 oublierPhilippe 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. Reybroeck1997, 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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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 VervoordtDIVA. 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 BodyMetropolitan Museum, NY, USA

Faith Love HopeKunsthaus, Graz, Austria

Het Gouden PaviljoenDe Warande, Voorjaar 2018, curator: Annelies Nagels & Dries Segers, Turnhout, Belgium

De Wonderkamer van Axel VervoordtDIVA. Museum voor Edelsmeedkunst, juwelen en diamant, Antwerpen, Belgium

Creating ourselves: the self in artWhitechapel 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 ENSEMBLELe Centquatre, Paris, France

Hyper RealNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Ecce HomoGeukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium

WeerZienDe 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 - ArbreFundació 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 ‚Äì 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