David Claerbout

On the occasion of the 2015 Open Art Munich, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle showcases two works of the internationally renowned Belgian video artist David Claerbout. In an environment he has developed specifically for the exhibition, Clearbout presents the audiovisual installation "Radio Piece (Hong Kong)" and the video installation "Highway Wreck," both of which examine the concepts of time and space.

David Claerbout, born in 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium, originally studied painting. It was only later, with his own growing interest in collecting, that he found his way to photography and film. He examines the perception and significance of both media technologically and thematically with regard to our increasingly digitalized world. Claerbout adds reconstructed images and his own films to found, partially historical, images, sets images in motion and decelerates them. His works often act as screens onto which banal everyday events or moments are projected, which by way of digital processing open up narrative spaces whose end is yet uncertain. This allows the viewers to perceive the depicted moment not in filmic time, but almost as the experience of a physical space. The captured moment can be seen as an allegory of life.