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{{short description|Belgian performance artist (born 1959)}}
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| name         = Danny Devos
| image        = Danny Devos Thriller 28 03 1979.tif
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| caption      = Devos: Thriller on 28 March 1979
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| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1959|9|20}}
| birth_place  = [[Vilvoorde, Belgium]]
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| occupation   = Performance artist, musician
| nationality  = Belgian
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| genre        = [[Noise music]], [[Performance art]], [[installation art]], [[sculpture]]
| pseudonym    = DDV
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| spouse       = [[Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven]]
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| website      = {{URL|www.performan.org}}
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'''Danny Devos''' (born 20 September 1959), also known as '''DDV''', is a Belgian artist whose work involves [[body art]] and [[performance art]] and a fascination with [[True crime (genre)|true crime]].

Since 1979 he has done over 160 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]].

From 1998 until 2004 he was Social Commissioner and chairman of the NICC,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nicc.be/ |title=nicc.be |publisher=nicc.be |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> the first association of Visual Artists in [[Belgium]], where he was in charge of the Social Statute of the Artist.

In 2005 he moved to Beijing in China to develop and manage [[Wim Delvoye#Art Farm|Art Farm]] for colleague artist [[Wim Delvoye]].

From 2005 until recently he performed his piece 'Diggin' for Gordon', inspired by [[Gordon Matta-Clark]], at a secret location and can only be seen by the audience through a [[webcam]].

His most recent works are based on [[artificial intelligence]] [[text-to-image model]] renderings that are then used to produce [[3D printed|3D printing]] or [[CNC]] machined relief objects.

[[Club Moral]] is also a pioneer [[noise music]] band.

Apart from solo sound concerts, he also performs with [[Bum Collar]], an improvisational [[noise music|noise]] band with [[Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven]] on electronics, [[Mauro Pawlowski]] on guitar, and [[Paul Mennes]] engineering and browntones.