A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST DAVID HELBICH at Christian Duvernois Gallery

Saturday, November 21, 2:00 pm

Christian Duvernois Gallery is pleased to invite you to the afternoon conversation, with drinks and snacks, with the German, Brussels-based artist David Helbich. The artist will present a few of his most recent participatory art works, among them the reenactment of Louis XIV’ walking instructions for the Versailles Gardens. Helbich will present his ideas of self-performativity and task related experiences. After the conversation, the artist, together with the audience, will create an artistic walk in the neighborhood of NoHo; with images, sounds and some exercises his artistic strategies will come alive.

For the walk, the audience is invited to bring their own headphones, in order to experience a full immersion in the performance.

David Helbich is a conceptual artist who creates experimental works on stage, in writing, online and in public spaces. He works as a composer, street photographer, and sound/performance artist. Helbich is interested in the understanding of an audience as active individuals and the notions of guidance and self-performativity are central to his practice.

In the last 15 years, Helbich’s work has been shown all over Europe. He has had solo exhibitions at De Werf (Aalst), Le Clignoteur (Brussels), Louis Hartloper Stichting (Utrecht) and Vrijstaat- O (Ostend). Recent selected group exhibitions include the ones at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Argos Art Center, Brussels; Art Rotterdam for Tale of a Tub Gallery; and FASadE, Amersfoort. He has undertaken urban (walk) performances and created audio guides for Brussels, New York, Aarhus, Oslo, Bergen, Riga and Birmingham. His work is also featured at Performance festivals such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2014) and music festivals such as Ultima, Oslo (2009). Helbich is the author of the photo book and online collection Belgian Solution, published in 2013 by MER, Paper Kunsthalle (Ghent) and republished in 2015 by Luster (Antwerp). His website is davidhelbich.be

Currently, he is an artist in residence at Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, with the support of the Flanders State of the Art and also participates in the acclaimed exhibition Socially Acceptable at InCube Arts, New York.