Entitled May You Live In Interesting Times, the theme evokes a sense of challenge, but also invites consideration for human events in their complexity. Exhibiting artists include Sean Scully, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Nairy Baghramian, Danh Vo, Michael E. Smith, Shilpa Gupta, Julie Mehretu, Ulrike Müller, Tomás Saraceno, Henry Taylor, among others.
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David Claerbout
artist / filmmaker
David Claerbout (born 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium) studied painting in Antwerp. He lives and works in Antwerp and Berlin.
He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions internationally at venues including the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2005), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2008), Museum De Pont, Tilburg (2009 and 2016), WIELS, Brussels (2011), SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2012), Wiener Secession (2012), Kunsthalle Mainz (2013), Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2014), Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg (2015), KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016), Städel Museum, Frankfurt / Main (2016), MNAC Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (2017), as well as Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel (2017). His work is represented in major public collections worldwide.
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