DIRK BRAECKMAN

° 1958, Eeklo (Belgium)
Lives and works in Gent (Belgium)

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Dirk Braeckman

Braeckman starts his artistic career as a photographer of portraits and self-portraits. Later, he chooses subjects of abandoned spaces and deserted rooms, body parts, surfaces of desks, walls, beds, etc for his black-and-white photos. Fragments are enlarged and take up the dimension of an all-embracing still life. With vague contours, the enlarged detail aims at catching a pure and essential, universal and anonymous image. By direct attention for the detail, the miniscule is elevated to auratic dimensions of the icon. The pictures are diaphanous yet suggestive: one recognises a personal narrative behind the large, unframed, black and white, but mainly grey photos.

Braeckman had a solo exhibition “z.Z(t)” at SMAK, Ghent in 2001. The Royal Family of Belgium commissioned the artist in 2002 for a permanent installation in the Sphinx Room of the palace in Brussels. He exposed work at “Beaufort 2003: Triënnale voor Hedendaagse Kunst aan Zee” at PMMK in Oostende. In 2004, Braeckman had a solo exhibition at de Pont Foundation in Tilburg. In 2006 his work was included in the group show 'clickdoubleclick', which travelled to Munich (DE) and Brussels (BE), and in 'DARK' at Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam (NL). Last year Braeckman had a solo show in Athens (GR) and this year he will present his works for the first time in New York, NY (US).
Artist's website: www.braeckman.be

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2008 "Dirk Braeckman", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (US), (February 21 - March 22)
2007 Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens (GR), (March 1 - April 3)
2005
Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (March 18 - April 23)
2004
"Additional Photos", De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg (NL), (January 17 - May 16)
2003
Antwerp Academic Hospital (BE )- entrance: permanent installation
 
"z.Z(t)", Espace Vox, Centre de diffusion de la photographie, Montréal (CN), ( 13 February - 6 April)
2002
"Dirk Braeckman", Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens (GR), (October 3 - November 7)
 
Royal Palace Brussels (BE )- Sphinx Room: permanent installation
2001
"z.Z(t).", SMAK, Ghent (BE), (August 18 - November 18)
 
"z.Z (t) II", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), ( April 12 - May 26)
2000
FIAC, presented by Galerie Le Réverbère, Paris (FR), ( October 24 - October 30)
Maison de la Culture de Namur, Nameur (BE)
1999
"z.Z(t).", Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
 
Poëtarium van Rhok, Brussels (BE)
1997
Sint-Lukasgalerij, Brussels (BE)
 
Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca (ES)
 
Belgium Flanders Museum / International House, Osaka (JP)
 
Galerie Patrick De Brock, Knokke (BE)
 
Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL)
1996
Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke (BE)
 
Galerie Le Réverbère 2, Lyon (FR)
1995
Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (BE)
 
Tour de Paris, Villeneuve sur Lot (FR)
1993
Galerie S & H De Buck, Ghent (BE)
 
Espace photographique Contretype, Hôtel Hannon, Brussels (BE)
1992
Galerie Le Réverbère 2, Lyon (FR)
 
Galerie L.A., Frankfurt (DE)
1991
Galerie S & H De Buck, Ghent (BE)
1990
Espace photographique Contrtype, Hôtel Hannon, Brussels (BE)
 
Galerie DB-S, Antwerp (BE)
 
Galeria Forum, Tarragona (ES)
1989
Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal (CN)
 
Studio 666 (Mois de la photo), Paris (FR)
 
Cultureel Centrum, Hasselt (BE)
1988
Espace photographique Contretype, Brussels (BE)
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2008
"Zerbrechliche Schönheit (Worlds of Glass)", Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (DE), (April 18 - August 3)
"Palazzio Existencia", x=10, Komijnstraat 3, Gent (BE), (February 16 - February 20)
"The Hands of Art", S.M.A.K., Gent (BE), (January 28 - March 16)
2007 "New Collection", Stedelijk Museum, Lier (BE), (December 1, 2007 - March 2, 2008)
"Hedendaagse fotografie uit de collectie van de provincie Oost-Vlaanderen", Bank van de Arbeid, Gent (BE), (November 30 - December 22)
"A Story of the Image: Visual Art as Visual Culture", Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (SG), (Novebmer 29, 2007 - January 2008)
"Gallery Artists", Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (September 12 - October 6)
"Een verhaal van het Beeld", MuHKA, Antwerp (BE), (June 1 - August 19)
"Speeltijd", Koninklijk Atheneum, Berchem (BE), (March 31 - April 15)
"Artists of the gallery", Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (March 16 - April 14)
"Eclipse: Exploding Cinema, International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2007", RAM Gallery, Rotterdam (NL), (January 25 - February 18)
  "Works on paper", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (January 17 - February 17)
2006 "Genre Humain", Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels (BE), (November 7 - January 14, 2007)
  "25 years Zeno X Gallery", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (October 17 - December 2)
 
"MUTE", Hofstraat 2, Antwerp (BE), (September 24 - October 8)
  "Room with a view: De Bouwfonds Kunstcollectie", Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL), (September 23 - December 17)
 
"Sisyphe", MAC's musée des arts contemporains, Grand-Hornu (BE), (September 17 - January 14, 2007)
 
"in flagranti I", Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (DE), (September 29 - November 12)
 
"Click Double Click", Paleis voor Schone Kunsten (Bozar), Brussels (BE), (June 25 - September 3) (cat)
 
"Extremities. Flemish art in Vladivostok", Museum Artetage, Vladivostok (RU), (May 26 - July 2)
 
"DARK", Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL), (February 18 - April 16)
 
"Click Double Click", Haus der Kunst, München (DE), (February 8 - April 23) (cat)
"Expo Persévérance", Het Godshuis, Sint-Laureins (BE), (March 24 - April 21)
 
"Ecarts & Traces", Espace le Carré, Lille (FR), (January 20 - March 12)
 
"Het archief van de verbeelding: De constructie van de ander", BOZAR Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (BE), (January 19 - March 12) (cat.)
2005
"Collectiepresentatie XIII - LUZ", MuHKA, Antwerp (BE), (November 25, 2005 - February 12, 2006)
"Delicious...", Sint-Truiden (BE), (August 21 - October 30) (cat.)
"Slow Art: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlandent", Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (DE), (July 16 - November 6)
 
"Contemporaneity: Dirk Braeckman - William Verstraeten", Revolution 100.000.000etc Gallery, Middelburg (NL), (June 5 - July 5)
 
"Werken uit de collectie & Dirk Braeckman", Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent (BE), (April - June)
2004
"Man and Earth - Haïfa Triennale", Haïfa Museum of Art, Haïfa (IL), (May)
"The Nude: Ideal and Reality", Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (IT)
 
"De donkere camera: Michaël Ackerman, Dirk Braeckman en Awoiska van der Molen", Fotomuseum, Den Haag (NL)
2003
"+ / - 5, 10, 15, 20, 20 years of a collection", Le Plateau - Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Iles-de-France, Paris (FR), (December 11 - February 22 2004)
 
"Opzij van het kijken", poëzie- & beeldende kunstzomer Watou (BE), (July 5 - September 7)
 
"Gelijk het leven is", 50 jaar Belgische en Internationale kunst uit de collectie", S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), (June 28 - September 14)
 
"Le Pire est à venier - Images contemporaines du monde: selection du musée Niépce", Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalo-sur-Saône (FR)
 
"Beaufort 2003: Triënnale voor hedendaagse kunst aan zee", PMMK, Oostende (BE), (April 5 - September 28), (cat)
 
"The Ambiguity of the Image", Art Athinai, Anthens (GR), (March 27 - March 31), (cat)
 
"Slow / Down", MK Expositieruimte, Rotterdam (NL), (March 14 - April 20)
 
A-Prior: Benefiet, MuHKA, Antwerp (BE), (February 28 - March 2)
2002
"Ik of een ander - zelfportretten van Belgische kunstenaars", Passage 44, Brussels (BE), (September 20 - January 26 2003)
 
"Richard Venlet/Paramount basics (extended) with works of Dirk Braeckman, Manon de Boer and others", MUHKA, Antwerp (BE), (September 21- November 24)
 
"Blend - Actuele fotografie in België", Caermersklooster, Ghent (BE), (June 1 - June 30)
 
"Le plat pays", Ecole Supérieure d'art, Perpignan (FR), (January 17 - March 6)
2001
"20 ans de Galerie. Hommage aux collections particulières (199& - 2001), Galerie Le Réverbère 2, Lyons (FR)
 
"Access Code 121", Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)
 
"Het oorkussen van de melancholie", Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent (BE)
 
"Belgian System", Espace 251 Nord, Tour & Taxis, Brussels (BE), (September 16 - October 28)
 
"Silhouettes 'N' Shadows", Fundament, Wilhelminakwartier, Tilburg (NL), (September 1 - October 28)
2000
"Dust and dirt", De Witte Zaal, Ghent (BE)
 
"Dirk Braeckman & Marc Trivier", Centre Culturel de Namur, Namur (BE)
 
"Brussels by Light", KBC Galerij, Brussels (BE), (February 4 - March 26), (cat)
 
"Shadows", Galerie Carousel, Paris (FR), (December 16 - January 27 2001)
 
"Attraction", Fundacio Rafael Tous d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
 
"Ons Huis.Actuele kunst in Sint-Camillus", N.P.K Sint-Camillus, N.P.K. Sint-Camillus, Waasmunster (BE), (December 17 - December 19)
 
"10 paar. Kunst uit Estland en Vlaanderen", Hoeve Vandewalle, Kuurne (BE), (September 2 - October 1), (cat)
 
"Gloom", The Living Room, Amsterdam (NL), (September 8 - October 5)
 
"Weldra in uw stad. Geen tijd", Fl. Van Cauwenberghstraat 19 (parkeergarage), Lier (BE), (September 10 - October 8)
 
"België - Holland. Voetbalcultuur in de Lage landen", Kunstcentrum Oud Sint-Jan, Brugge (BE), (May 20 - July 2)
 
"Metro>Polis", Brussels 2000, Brussels (BE.), (October 15 - November 19)
 
"Over the Edges. De hoeken van Gent", SMAK, Ghent (BE), (April 1 - April 30)
1999
"S.M.A.K. - KRACHT", Witte Zaal, Sint-Lucas, Ghent (BE)
"Interference - Locations in Memory and Time", Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg (FR); Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg (DE); Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (UK)
 
"Une histoire parmi d'autres: collection de Michel Poitevin", FRAC, Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk(FR)
 
Galerie Patrick De Brock, Knokke (BE)
 
Rhok Gallery, Brussels (BE)
 
"De Opening", S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), (cat)
 
"Snowball 2", Gallerie Ulrich Friedler, Cologne (DE), (cat)
 
"Melbourne International Biennal", Belgian Pavillion, Melbourne (AU), (cat)
 
"La Consolation. A selection of art pieces from the Flemish Collection", Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble (RF), (cat)
 
"Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais. A Choice", BBL, Courtrai (BE), (cat)
 
"Group exhibition with Dirk Braeckman / Carla Klein / Miguel Rio Branco / Maria Serebriakova / Johannes Kahrs", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (28 May - 3 July)
 
"Trattenendosi", Venice Biennale, Zitelle (IT)
 
"Transference. Locations in Memory and Time", Gallery Photohof, Salzburg (AT)
 
Galerie Otok, Dubrovnik (HR)
 
"Solo Quint", A.Z. Sint-Blasius, Dendermonde (BE)
 
"Dirk Braeckman / Marlene Dumas / Johannes Kahrs / Mark Manders / Avery Preesman / Luc Tuymans / AMVK", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (2 December - 22 January 2000)
1998
Galerie Rodolphe Janssens, Brussels (BE)
 
"Altered States", Festival a/d werf, Utrecht (NL), (cat.)
 
"Dirk Braeckman / Danny Devos / Ria Pacquée / Thomas Ruff", Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent (BE)
1997
Galerie du Château d'eau, Toulouse (FR)
 
"Thomas Ruff / Carl De Keyzer / Dirk Braeckman", Het Punt, Roeselare (BE)
 
"Terreny Adobat. Fotografia de Flandes", Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (ES)
 
"Le photographe et son modèle", Bibliothèque National de France, Tolbiac, Paris (FR)
 
"Vous êtes ici", Oh- Stichting Kunstbevordering, Brussels (BE)
 
"Loplop/re/presents: The im/pulse to see. Max Ernst in beeld", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
 
"Mais pour vivre, il faut...", Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône (FR)
 
"En Collection", Sint-Lucasgalerij, Ghent (BE), (cat)
 
"Axis", Yogyakarta, Jakarta (SG))
1996
"The European Face Exhibition", Copenhague (DN)
 
"L'avant-Musée (Mois de la Photo), Le Réverbère 2 : 15 ans de réflexion", Paris (FR)
 
"Fotografische momenten", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (BE)
 
"Contretype", Glacière de St.-Gilles, Brussels (BE)
1995
"The European Face", Danish Cultural Institute, Edinburgh (UK)
 
"Photographie et cinéma", Printems de Cahors
 
"Accrochage", Galerie Le Réverbère 2, Lyons (FR)
 
"Face à face", Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault (FR)
 
"Afspiegelingen", Landcommanderij Alden Biesen, Rijkhoven-Bilzen (BE)
1994
"La matière l'ombre, la fiction (mois de la photo)", Bibliothèque National de France, Paris (FR)
1993
"Contemporary Belgian Photography", Gallery Philippe Staib / Art Wall+B, New York (US)
 
"Europese oefeningen", Galerie DB-S, Antwerp (BE), (cat)
 
"Jonge Helden", Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp (BE), (cat)
 
"Photographie en Belgique de 1839 à nos jours", Musée de la photographie, Charleroi (BE), (cat)
1992
Département Culturel de Bayer, Leverkussen (DE)
 
"L'Echappe européenne (mois de la photo)", Pavillion des Arts, Paris (FR)
 
"A l'image de rien (mois de la photo)", Epernay, Reims (FR), (cat)
 
"Synergie 92", Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
 
"3 x Fotografie", Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg (NL), (cat)
 
"3 x Fotografie", CC. De Werf, Aalst (BE), (cat)
 
"3 x Fotografie", CC. Benedengal, Kortrijk (BE), (cat)
 
"Het fotografische portret", Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp (BE)
 
"Iemand, niemand en honderdduizend. Het portret in vraag", ICC, Antwerp (BE)
1991
"La photographie belges des origines à nos jours", Centre National de la photographie, Pais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
 
"Photobiographies.Deuil et mémoire", Maison de la Culture, Namur (BE)
1990
"Trans.Europe.Off.Art", Fotogalerie, Vienna (AT)
 
"Junge Europäische Fotografen", Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
 
"Le sens du format", Maison de la culture, Namur (BE)
1989
Bruce Vellick Gallery, San Francisco (US)
 
"Festival Photo", Galerie St.-Leonard, Liège (BE)
 
"Mise-en-scène", Museum voor fotografie, Antwerp (BE), (cat)
 
"Belgian Contemporary Photography", Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York (US)
 
"Het Portret (Fotofestival)", Canon Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
 
"Clichés - Le choix des sens", La Botanique, Brussels (BE), (cat)
 
"Le voir en liberté", Grand Angle, Voiron / Théatre d'Heronville, Caen (FR)
 
Studio 666, Paris (FR)
 
Centre de la Cultura Contemporania, Biennal de Barcelona, Barcelona (ES)
 
"European Kodak Award", Arles (FR), (cat)
 
"Belgian Kodak Award", Espace Galeria, Brussels (BE)
1988
"Géographies humaines", Musée de la photographie, Charleroi (BE)
1986
"Initiatief '86", Galerie XYZ, Ghent (BE)
 
"Jeune Peinture Belge", Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (BE)
 
"Troisième Triennale Internationale de la photographie", Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi (BE), (cat)
 
"Autorretrato, Narcisimo o provocaciòn?", Foco, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (ES)
 
"Journées Internationales de la photographie", Hotel de ville, Montpellier (FR), (cat)
 
"Junge Europäische Fotografen", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
 
"Mois de la photo", Musée d'art Moderne, Liège (BE), (cat)
 
Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam (NL)
 
 
PUBLICATIONS
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2008 Photo Art fotografie im 21.Jahrhundert
Dumont, Köln (DE)
2007 JUBILEE - MuHKA 2007/1987/1967
MuHKA, Antwerp (BE)
2006 ClickDoubleClick: The Documentary Factor
Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE) - BOZAR, Brusseld (BE)
  Dark
Curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
  Cultuurprijzen Vlaanderen 2005
Flagey, Brussel (BE)
2005
Delicious...
different locations in Sint-Truiden (BE)
 
Slow Art: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (DE)
2004
The Nude: Ideal and Reality. From the Invention of Photography to Today.
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (IT)
2003
Comme des Garçons
Edited by Comme des Garçons, September 2003 - February 2004
 
Chiaroscuro - Een opdracht van Koningin Paola voor het Koninklijk Paleis te Brussel
Toohcsmi uitgevers, 2003
 
2003 Beaufort - Triënnale voor Hedendaagse Kunst aan Zee
PMMK Oostende, 2003
 
The Ambiguity of the Image. Belgian Art Now.
Art Athina 10'03, Helexpo Exhibition Centre, Athens
2002
A-Prior N-7 : Dirk Braeckman
 
Ik of een Ander. Zelfportretten van Belgische Kunstenaars
Dexia galerie, Passage 44 Brussels (BE)
 
10 Jaar Cultuurprijs K.U. Leuven, 1992 - 2002
Edited by K.U. Leuven, Cultuurcommissie Prof. W. Rombauts
2001
Beeldende Kunst. Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap aanwinsten 1996/1997/1998
Edited by Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, text by Rudi Laermans / Bart Verschaffel
 
Dirk Braeckman: z.Z.(t). Volume II
Edited by Ludion, SMAK, Ghent (BE), (18 August - 18 November), text by Erik Eelbode
2000
Kinderspel. Kindertekeningen / Actuele Kunst
Waarschoot (BE), (4 - 26 November)
 
10 paar. Kunst uit Estland en Vlaanderen
Hoeve Vandewalle, Kuurne (BE),
 
Over the Edges
SMAK, Ghent (BE)
1999
Trattenendosi
Zittele (IT), text by Dirk Verbiest / Eva Wittocx
1998
Dirk Braeckman : z.Z.(t).
Edited by Ludion, Ghent / Amsterdam
 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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Artothèque, Annecy (FR)
 
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (FR)
 
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris (FR)
 
Centro de Fotografia de la Universidad, Salamanca (ES)
 
De Pont Foundation, Tilburg (NL)
 
Fondation nationale d'art contemporain, Paris (FR)
 
FotoMuseum, Antwerp (BE)
 
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk (FR)
 
FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne (FR)
 
Haagse Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
 
MAC's Grand Hornu, Hornu (BE)
 
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (FR)
 
Musée d'Art Contemporain et Moderne, Strasbourg (FR)
 
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi (BE)
 
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne (FR)
 
Musée Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône (FR)
 
Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA), Antwerp (BE)
 
Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst PMMK, Oostende (BE)
 
Royal Palace, Brussels (BE)
 
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)