Born in 1965, in Wervik, Belgium.
Lives and works in in Belgium and the United Kingdom.
Presentation
Wim Delvoye, a neo-conceptual artist, appropriates art-historical styles and motifs and uses them to sublimate trivial yet unconventional objects, cleverly combining philosophical ideas, an intrinsic use of materials, modern techniques, and a love of craftsmanship.
Since the 1980s, his work has evolved from decorating everyday items with heraldic patterns to radicalizing art's critical function via tattooed live pigs and Cloaca—complex, addressing the futility of human nature while simultaneously probing the ambivalent relationship between art and commerce. By seamlessly balancing antagonistic realms like the historical and the futuristic, his baroque gestures continuously challenge contemporary architecture and societal myths with a distinctly amused, irreverent gaze.
Public collections (selection)
CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Collection Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Guggenheim New York, New York, USA
Jing'An Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China
Middelheim Sculpture Park, Antwerp, Belgium
MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Mudam, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Salama Bint Hamdan al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE
SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Uffizi Gallery, Firenze, Italy
