In her video, sculpture, installation, drawing, sound and performance, Dekyndt explores the natural and cultural phenomena of the world through a minimalist lens.
Edith Dekyndt was born in Ieper, Belgium in 1960 and lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. In her video, sculpture, installation, drawing, sound and performance, Dekyndt explores the natural and cultural phenomena of the world through a minimalist lens.
Applying physical and chemical processes, Dekyndt brings forth the ephemerality of objects, images and sound to convey the transitory elements of time, light and space. Dekyndt’s body of work is suspended between the tangible and intangible, allowing permeability in the perception of what is real. Dekyndt’s works were recently on view as part of “Tell Us Something That Nobody Knows” at Kunsthalle Bielefeld. She was recently a Fogo Island Arts Artist-in-Resident in 2024 . She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2025), Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence (2024), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Italy (2024), Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection (2023), Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (2016), Musée de l’Abbaye de Sainte Croix, Les sables d’Olonne, France (2016), Le Consortium, Dijon, Belgium (2015), Centre d’art contemporain, Lyon, France (2013). She has participated in the Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de America del Sur ( 2019) , Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2021), Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2nd edition, Latvia (2020), Musee de la inmigración, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019), the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy (2017), 5th Moscow Biennale, Russia (2013), 5th Biennal of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (2011), Brussels Biennial, Midi Station, Belgium (2008), and Biennale de la photographie, MAMAC, Liège, France (2008).
Selected group exhibitions include “Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order” currently on view at WIELS, Belgium (2025), Lantz'scher Skulpturenpark (2025), Art Institute of Chicago (2025), ZKM | Karlsruhe Museum (2025), Artmuseum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (2024), Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy (2023 and 2019), Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany (2022), GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy (2021), Fondation Cab (2017), Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin (2017) , SMAK Ghent, Belgium (2015, 2010 and 2009), Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (2015 and 2014), Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (2014).
