Editing Danny Devos

{{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.

==Solo exhibitions==
* In Memory of [[Ed Gein]] (Ruimte Morguen) 1987
* Belgium's Most Bizarre Artist (Ruimte Morguen) 1989
* De Moorden in Ruimte Morguen (Ruimte Morguen) 1991
* True Crime Art (Galerie Transit)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.transit.be/exhibitions/index.php |title=Transit: exhibitions |publisher=Transit.be |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014 |archive-date=15 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315232228/http://www.transit.be/exhibitions/index.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> 1991
* The Red Spider of Katowice (Galeria Potocka, Kraków) 1993
* De Wurger / The Strangler (Galerie Annette De Keyser)<ref name="annettedekeyser1">{{cite web|author=Galerie Annette De Keyser |url=http://www.annettedekeyser.com/ |title=annettedekeyser.com/ |publisher=annettedekeyser.com/ |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> 1994
* De Vampier van Muizen 1994
* Daders van Dodingen / Perpetrators of Death (Galerie Annette De Keyser)<ref name="annettedekeyser1"/> 1996
* Ons Geluk (with [[Luc Tuymans]]) 1997
* Speech Regained (Pranakorn Bar & Gallery)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xaap.com/english/resource/article/main_list_article.asp?catid=7562&rid=1576 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225325/http://www.xaap.com/english/resource/article/main_list_article.asp?catid=7562&rid=1576 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2007 |title=Battlefield Bangkok Games and Hobby Shop |publisher=Xaap.com |accessdate=7 April 2014 }}</ref> 2000
* Thai Boy Slim (Galerie Annette De Keyser)<ref>{{cite web|author=Galerie Annette De Keyser |url=http://www.annettedekeyser.com/ |title=annettedekeyser.com |publisher=annettedekeyser.com |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> 2000
* A Study for the Happiest Man Alive (Annie Gentils Gallery)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anniegentilsgallery.com/ |title=Annie Gentils Gallery |publisher=Annie Gentils Gallery |date=15 March 2014 |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> 2012
* Picnic at Hanssenspark (De Bond)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ccbrugge.be/evenement_detail.jsp?evenement=1522 |title=CCBrugge 13&#124;14 – Danny Devos – |publisher=Ccbrugge.be |accessdate=17 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210150311/http://www.ccbrugge.be/evenement_detail.jsp?evenement=1522 |archive-date=10 December 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> 2014
* Lily & Rudy (Annie Gentils Gallery)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.anniegentilsgallery.com/danny-devos-lily-and-rudy/ |title=Annie Gentils Gallery |publisher=Annie Gentils Gallery |date=5 September 2016 |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref> 2016
* La Révolte des Machines ou La Pensée Déchaînée de Frans Masereel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.performan.org/exhibitions/solo-exhibitions/la-revolte-des-machines-ou-la-pensee-dechainee-de-frans-masereel/ |title=La Révolte des Machines ou La Pensée Déchaînée de Frans Masereel |date=27 October 2023 |accessdate=29 October 2023}}</ref> 2023

==Group exhibitions (selection)==
* 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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.muhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=nl&id=335&subbase=archief&jaartal=1992 |title=M HKA |publisher=Muhka.be |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> 1992
* Wunschmaschinen (WUK/Wolkersdorf) 1993
* Transfer (Gent/Recklinghausen/Charleroi) 1994
* De Rode Poort (SMAK)<ref>{{cite web |author=S.M.A.K. |url=http://www.smak.be/tentoonstelling.php?la=nl&id=74 |title=S.M.A.K |publisher=Smak.be |date=9 November 1996 |accessdate=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408211428/http://www.smak.be/tentoonstelling.php?la=nl&id=74 |archivedate=8 April 2014  }}</ref> 1996
* Beeldberichten (KMSKA) 1996
* Alter Ego (Silpakorn University) 1999
* The Divine Comedy (Fort Asperen) 1999
* Pauvre Nous (Factor 44)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.factor44.be |title=factor44.be |publisher=factor44.be |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> 2004
* Dear ICC (MuHKA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.muhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=nl&id=98&subbase=archief&jaartal=2004 |title=M HKA |publisher=Muhka.be |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> 2004
* Voorbij Goed & Kwaad (Museum Dr. Guislain)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museumdrguislain.be |title=museumdrguislain.be |publisher=museumdrguislain.be |date= |accessdate=7 April 2014}}</ref> 2006
* The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience (NICC)<ref>[http://www.nicc.be/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=915 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024155034/http://www.nicc.be/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=915 |date=24 October 2007 }}</ref> 2007
* All That is Solid Melts into Air (De Maakbare Mens) (Stadsvisioenen)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stadsvisioenen.be/en_0/details.asp?recid=233 |accessdate=30 March 2009 |title=www.stadsvisioenen.be }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 2009
* The State of Things (National Art Museum of Beijing) 2010
* Hidden – Conflict (CIAP) 2013
* Crime in Art (Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.mocak.pl/crime-in-art |title=Crime in Art |publisher=mocak.pl |date= |accessdate=17 May 2014}}</ref> 2014

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.performan.org/ Performan]
*[http://ensembles.mhka.be/actors/danny-devos/ Muhka-ensembles]

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