Danny Devos

Danny Devos (born in Vilvoorde, 1959) is a Belgian artist whose work involves body art and performance art and a fascination with true crime.

Since 1979 he has done over 100 performances and made several sculptural installations depicting violence, crime and murder. Since 1987 he has been corresponding with serial killers like Freddy Horion and Michel Bellen in Belgium and John Wayne Gacy in the USA.

In 1981 he founded the artist initiative Club Moral with Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven.

Club Moral is also a pioneer noise band until today.

Solo Exhibitions

• In Memory of Ed Gein 1987
• Belgium's Most Bizarre Artist 1989
• De Moorden in Ruimte Morguen 1991
• True Crime Art 1991
• The Red Spider of Katowice 1993
• De Wurger (The Strangler) 1994
• De Vampier van Muizen 1994
• Daders van Dodingen (Perpetrators of Death) 1996
• Ons Geluk (with Luc Tuymans) 1997
• Speech Regained 2000
• Thai Boy Slim 2000

Group Exhibitions

• Untitled (Ruimte Z) 1979
• 1980 (ICC) 1980
• Van Drang tot Dwang (Club Moral) 1983
• De Dood (K4) 1984
• Automobiënnale (Middelheim) 1985
• Antichambres 1986
• Het Onding Kunst (Stalker) 1988
• Wahrheit und Dichtung (Galerie Maerz) 1989
• Prime Time (w139) 1989
• Woord en Beeld (MuHKA) 1992
• Wunschmaschinen (WUK/Wolkersdorf) 1993
• Transfer (Gent/Recklinghausen/Charleroi) 1994
• De Rode Poort (SMAK) 1996
• Beeldberichten (KMSKA) 1996
• Alter Ego (Silpakorn University) 1999
• The Divine Comedy (Fort Asperen) 1999
• Pauvre Nous (Factor 44) 2004

External links

• DDV