Biography
Born in 1955 in Burges, Belgium
Lives and works in Bruges and Zwevezele, Belgium
The works of Robert Devriendt are assembled in such a way as to create cinematic montages. The themes and the way the paintings are combined demonstrate their relationship with the art of painting, film and the image in general. Dark personages and surprising props are depicted in changing scenes in which some drama seems to be taking place. He investigates the way in which images work and are interpreted, in which misunderstanding plays a key role. In doing so, he adopts a clear standpoint within visual culture and the vision of reality. The observer, seen by Devriendt as a voyeur, is invited to interpret the ‘interrupted story’ like a detective. His imagination is stimulated by the spaces between the paintings. Devriendt’s illusionist painting technique, reminiscent of the Flemish Primitives, also casts a spell on the observer.
He presented solo exhibitions at BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (2017); MOCAK, Krakow (PO) (2016); Groeningemuseum, Bruges (2015); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE) (2009); Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing (2009) or SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent (2001). Group exhibitions include M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (2017); Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels (2013); National Art Museum of China, Beijing (CN) (2010); Wiels, Brussels (2010); TENT, Rotterdam (2003) or The Reykjavik Art Museum (IS) (2001).
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Solo Exhibitions
- 2020 The scent of burning wood, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR
- 2019 THE MISSING SCRIPT 2. Through the eyes of David X, Galerie BaronianXippas, Brussel, BE
- 2017 Pilotstudy THE MISSING SCRIPT, Works on Paper, Bozar, Galerie A.Baronian, Brussels, BE
THE MISSING SCRIPT 1.Blind Seduction, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE - 2016 Making Connections, Museum MOCAK, Krakow, PL
- 2015 Making Connections, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, BE
- 2014 Unsolved Cases, Galerie Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
- 2012 A voyeur’s devotion, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR
Le Chasseur de Fétiches, De Literaire Loketten, Brussels, BE - 2011 The woods of love and horror, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels, BE
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art VIENNA, Wien, AT - 2010 Victimes de la passion, M – Museum, Leuven, BE
- 2009 Peintures et scenarios, Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, FR
Peintures et scenarios, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE - 2008 Die Geschichte eines Jägers, MARTa Herford, GER
- 2007 Les Amants de la Forêt, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR
Heidegger’s Forest, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels, BE - 2006 Séquences, Ravenstein-galleries/Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Brussels, BE
Passion & Crime, museumgoudA, Gouda, NL - 2005 Essai Intime, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, FR
Explosion et Sensualite, Air de Paris, FR
Contes Intimes, Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, BE - 2004 Metaview, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
- 2001 Robert Devriendt, Presentation book, ‘Schilderen’ and paintings, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent, BE
Illusion of Illusion, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, JP - 2000 Mise en Scène, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
Petits mouvements/Kleine bewegingen, Hyper Space, Brussels, BE - 1999 About Nature, About Painting, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
- 1998 Gallery Corridor, The Reykjavik Art Museum, IS
Vereniging, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE - 1996 Stichting, ULTIMA THULE, Amsterdam, NL
- 1994 Galerie C. De Ketelaere, Tielt, BE
Jan Mot & Oscar van den Boogaard, Brussels, BE - 1993 Robert Devriendt, Galerie C. De Ketelaere, Tielt, BE
- 1991 Robert Devriendt, Galerie Joost Declercq, Ghent, BE
- 1989 Robert Devriendt, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE
- 1987 Robert Devriendt, Internationaal Cultureel Centrum (ICC), Antwerp, BE
- 1985 Robert Devriendt, Galerie CD, Ghent, BE
Group Exhibitions
- 2021 Galerie Baronian Xippas, Salon d’O, Ostend, BE
Galerie Loevenbruck, Art Paris, FR
Galerie Loevenbruck, FIAC, Paris, FR
Nella Luce dei cieli del nord, DD project, Varese, IT
Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, BE
PASS Kunst in Dorpen, BE
Uit de Collectie Gifted, S.M.A.K. Ghent, BE
De Kleine Catalogus van de Collectie van S.M.A.K. Ghent, BE
Art Antwerp, BE
Paradise, different locations, Kortrijk (B)
Brafa in the galleries 2021, Gallery Baronian/Xippas, Knokke, BE - 2020 Le shop show, Galerie Baronian/Xippas, Knokke, BE
40 years Gallerí Gangur, Reykjavik, IS
‘Beestig?’ stadsfestival Damme 2020, BE
The Clown Spirit, De Rossaert, Antwerpen, BE - 2019 Le Choix d’Albert, Galerie Xippas, Genève, CH
ART BRUSSELS, Galerie Baronian/Xippas, Brussels, BE
Home sweet home, Kunsthuis, Waregem, BE
Salon de Peinture, M HKA, Antwerp, BE
- 2018 Le Salon Galeristes, Le carreau du Temple, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR Flowers 2018, Galerie Uhoda, Knokke, BE
ART BRUSSELS 2018, Galerie Albert Baronian, BE
ART BRUSSELS 2018, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, BE
KRASJ 2018, Ninove, BE - 2017 The Artist/Knight, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, BE
WORDSWORDSWORDS PART II, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde @ Nieuw Zuid, Antwerp, BE
THE RAFT/ Art is (not) lonely, Muzee, Ostend, BE
ANGST, Dr.Guislain Museum, Ghent, BE
Un monde in-tranquille, centre d’art contemporain, (CAC) Meymac, FR
Kunst om het lijf, Emergent, Veurne, BE
The Artist/knight, Kasteel Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, BE
ART BASEL, Galerie Marlborough London, Basel, CH
MiArt 2017, Galerie Albert Baronian, Milan, IT
ART BRUSSELS 2017, Galerie Albert Baronian, BE
BRAFA, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE
Art Drawing Now, Galerie Loevenbruck, Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR - 2016 Public à l’oeuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, BE
Het verbeelde Westen, Belgische ambassadeurswoning, Den Haag, NL
Tefaf Maastricht, Galerie Marlborough, NL
Art Basel, Galerie Marlborough, CH - 2015 Galerie Loevenbruck, Contemporary Istanbul 2014, TR
An Jan, Eine Hommage, Marta Herford, GR
Andante Giocoso, Mauroner, Vienna, AT
Kunstenfestival Watou 2015, BE
Marlborough Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Galerie Marlborough, Art Brussels 2015, BE
Galerie Albert Baronian, Art Brussels 2015, BE
PASS, Vlaamse Ardennen, BE
Armory Show, Galerie Albert Baronian, New York, USA
Various Artists, Marlborough Fine Art London, UK
Drawing Now Paris, Galerie Loevenbruck, Carreau du temple, FR
Tefaf Maastricht, Galerie Marlborough, NL - 2014 Museum to scale 1/7, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
Passions secrètes, collections privées Flamandes, Tripostal, Lille, FR
Art Basel 2014, Galerie Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
De Onvervalste leugen, Emergent, Veurne, BE
Crime in ART, Museum MOCAK, Krakau, PL
ART BRUSSELS, Galerie Marlborough Londen, Brussels, BE
TEFAF, Gallery Marlborough Fine Art London, Maastricht, NL
EL HOTEL ElECTRICO, M HKA, Antwerpen, BE
Episode 5: In the beginning, Kunstraum Insitu, Berlin, GR
Bande à part, CAB Art Center, Brussels, BE
Résonance (s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, BE
Conversation Piece, Art Genève, Genève, CH - 2013 Museum to scale 1/7, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, BE
Art Brussels, Galerie Marlborough, Brussels, BE
Art Brussels, Galerie Baronian, Brussels, BE
Dinges, Museum M, Leuven, BE - 2012 Prolongation, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien, AT
Biënnale van de Schilderkunst: De Mens in Beeld, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art SALZBURG, AT
Hypersensitief, Zwijgershoek, Sint-Niklaas, BE
Art Bazel, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Basel, CH
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Rotterdam, NL
Brussels Art Fair, Galerie Baronian-Francey,Brussels, BE - 2011 Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, BE
Flanders House, New York, USA
Art Bazel, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Basel, CH
Family Plot, Galerie Baronian-Francey. Brussels, BE - 2010 Idiolect, G.Gezellemuseum and different locations, Bruges, BE
The state of things, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, CN
Art Bazel, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Basel, CH
Disturbed silence, Campus Psychiatrisch Centrum Duffel, BE
Exposition d’Inauguration Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR
Vlaggenproject en PPP Paintings, MuZEE, Oostende, BE
FIAC, Foire International d’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
7 nieuwe installaties in Troubleyn Laboratorium, Antwerpen, BE
Benefietveiling Centrum Wiels, Brussel, BE - 2009 The state of things, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, BE
Pittoresk, MARTa, Herford, GR
Exposition Collectieve, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR
Sammlung MARTa Herford 02, Herford, GR
Voltashow, Galerie Loevenbruck, Basel, CH
Beyond the Picturesque, SMAK, Ghent, BE
Armory Show New York, Galerie Baronian-Francey, New York, USA
Salon Du Dessin Contemporain 2009, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, FR
35 JAAR Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels, BE
Fading, Museum van Elsene, BE
Uit het geheugen, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, BE - 2008 Honorons Honoré, De Garage, Mechelen, BE
Found, Voorkamer, Lier, BE
Indian Winter, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels, BE
Salon du dessin, Paris, FR
Comme des bêtes, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH - 2007 Silent Revolutions, Jardin botanique et centre culturel Tweebronnen, Leuven, BE
About #3, Dalfsen, Hengelo, NL
Birdwatching, Tanya Rumpff gallery, Haarlem, NL - 2006 L’amateur d ’estampes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, FR
Watou, été de la poésie, Extiem, Watou, BE
Summertime, Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, BE
La Touche, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, BE
Voorbij Goed en Kwaad, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, BE - 2005 La Belgique Visionnaire, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE
Slow Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, GR
Pijn, Guislain Dr. Museum, Ghent, BE
Soul, Corpus, Bruges, BE
Chemins, Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, BE
Galerie Nadja Vilenne, FIAC, Paris, FR
Galerie Nadja Vilenne, KunstRAI, NL
Rai, Galerie Nadja Vilenne, BE
Ravenstein-gallery, Galerie Nadja Vilenne, BE
Le jeune, le bel, le vivace aujourd’hui, Centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Montreuil, FR, curated by Y. Brochard - 2004 Love is in the Air, Marie-Puck Broodthaers, Brussels, BE
Amicalement vôtre, Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, BE
Once Upon a Time, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), BE - 2003 Gelijk Het Leven Is, Belgische kunst uit de collectie van het Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent, BE
-stat.ic, TENT, Rotterdam, NL
A Prior Benefiet, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), BE
Bestuifbegeerte, Z33, Hasselt, BE - 2002 Onderstromen-Bovenstromen, NICC-project, Bruges, BE
Octopus, Bruges, BE
Ik of een ander, Self-portrait Belgian Artists, Brussels, BE - 2001 Mangistan, Oud-Amelisweerd, Utrecht, NL
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
Retouche, Ghent, BE
Yellow, curated by Jan Hoet, Geel, BE
Still/life, curated by Johan Pas, Rockoxmuseum, Antwerp, BE
Between Earth and Heaven, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Ostend, BE - 2000 The Corridor: 20 Years, The Reykjavik Art Museum, IS
Mouvements, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, BE
Another Dimension, b.space.be, Brussels, BE
Kinderspel, Waarschoot, BE - 1998 Gallery Ingolfstrati, The Reykjavik Art Museum, IS
Salon Vache, Art Store, Brussels, BE
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA - 1997 Art Brussels, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE
Auto-Mobiliteit, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam, NL - 1996 Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Das Belgische Haus, Cologne, GR
P. Broodthaers, Brussels, BE
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, L’ACADEMIE 1, Brussels, BE - 1995 Introducé, Stedelijk Museum, Het Domein, Sittard, NL
De Voorstelling, Exposorium Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL - 1994 Aankopen van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, BE
- 1993 Landschappen-Verwantschappen, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Self-Portrait, Jan Mot & Oscar van de Boogaard, Brussels, BE - 1992 Modernism in Painting, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Ostend, BE
- 1991 Galerie van Krimpen, Amsterdam, NL
Galerie Joost Declercq, Ghent, BE
Museum Mücsarnok, Budapest, YUG
Europaprijs voor de Schilderkunst, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Ostend, BE
Publlications
Making Connections, Groeninge Museum Bruges, 2015.
Broken Stories, Ludion, 2014.
Zwischen den Bildern, MARTa Herford, 2009.
Essai Intime, Chateau d’Orion, Centre des Monuments, 2005.
Between Text and Image, A prior and R. Devriendt, 2002.
Robert Devriendt, Schilderen, Merz/Luc Derycke & Co., Ghent 2001.
Peintures & Scénarios, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing.
Collections
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary art, Krakow, PL
Sheringa Museum of Realist Art Collection, Spanbroek, NL
21C Museum, Louisville, USA
Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Ghent, BE
Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst (PMMK), Ostend, BE
National Bank of Belgium, BE
City of Bruges, BE
Dexia, BE
Cera, BE
ING, BE
