permanent works
since
2024 Imagine There Was No Roof, three sound meditation rugs, Concertgebouw Brugge
2024 Music in Pieces, scores on placemats, restaurant Concertgebouw Brugge
2023 Colors of Shade, large scale facade installation, major extension, Nieuwland, Brussels
2022 Bark like a dog, 15 digital walk art cards, municipality of Herzele, Belgium
2021 Maastricht Tracks, Audio Guide & Score Book, Marres, Maastricht
2022 Bark like a dog, 15 digital walk art cards, municipality of Herzele, Belgium
2021 Maastricht Tracks, Audio Guide & Score Book, Marres, Maastricht
2020 1000 Scores, digital platform with approx. 100 commissioned works, with H.Haug+C.Puschke
2020 Scores for the Body, Building & the Soul, Score Book, Serralves Museum, Porto
2019 trans & form, hit & run, audio guide, Z33, Hasselt
2019 Zicht Ruil - looking through walls, photo project in social space, Nieuwland/VGC, Brussels
2019 all one shape, audio guide, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art Eupen
2016 all one shape, audio guide, Meakusma Festival
2015 Trying to look like a building, photo series, social media
2020 Scores for the Body, Building & the Soul, Score Book, Serralves Museum, Porto
2019 trans & form, hit & run, audio guide, Z33, Hasselt
2019 Zicht Ruil - looking through walls, photo project in social space, Nieuwland/VGC, Brussels
2019 all one shape, audio guide, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art Eupen
2016 all one shape, audio guide, Meakusma Festival
2015 Trying to look like a building, photo series, social media
2013 Belgian solutions, Volume 1 - 3 (resp.2016 + 2022), photo books, Luster publishing
2013 City Tracks, audio guide scores for Kortrijk, Brussels, Riga, Bergen, Maastricht, Luxembourg
2012 What People Say, facade installation, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2007 Belgian solutions, social media photo collection
2012 What People Say, facade installation, Beursschouwburg, Brussels
2007 Belgian solutions, social media photo collection
2025
2023
2022
2021
events
- Brugges, Concertgebouw, Slow Festival, inauguration of 2nd part permanent work Imagine There Was No Roof (sound meditation rugs), March 1+2
- New York City, Carriage Trade Gallery, Social Photography XI, group show, photo "Can't trust ghosts", 7x5 inches, edition 20+1PP, opening 15 Feb (- 16 March)
- Saint-Etienne (FR), Théâtre de Poche des Brankignols, No music + Music in Pieces, 13 Feb
- Paris, Theatre de la Concorde, KOMETA Comedy Club, stand-up performance, jan 11
2024
publications 2024
- article in volume 26 of the Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik (Schott, Oct 2024)
- score in "A Year of Deep Listening - 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros" (MIT press, Sept 2024)
- article in Anthology for Listening vol. II, (Bureau for Listening, Dec 2024)
exhibitions, inaugurations, media, events 2024
- New York City, Carriage Trade Gallery, Social Photography XI, group show, photo "Can't trust ghosts", 7x5 inches, edition 20+1PP, special opening Dec
- Brussels, Au Jus, electronic solo set with modular system, 15 Nov
- Brugges, Concertgebouw - inauguration of permanent works Imagine There Was No Roof and Music In Pieces, 20 October (deep listening day)
- Oyou + Galerie Juvénal (BE) - group exhibition "Le Petit Musée du bizarre éphémère" with Belgian Solutions, 15 Sept - 9 Oct
- Arles (FR), Théâtre Antique - Belgian Solutions, slide show perf. for Live Magazine des Rencontres, 5 july
- Brussels, Nieuwland site - official inauguration of Colors of Shade, facade installation, 77 plexi plates (40x60cm) and ferrite magnets, commission VGC, 16 april
- Radio, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, portrait with 4 adaptations of No Music, feature by Julian Kämper, March
- Brussels, Chez Olivia - Project Room: Brussels Puzzles, framed photo prints, various sizes, double exhibition with painter Pierre Lefebvre, 21 march (opening)
2023
- album on label New York Haunted: Summer Hits, 7 tracks of electronic music, Nov
- Jeju Island, South Korea, Art Track Jeju, Cociety Village, House of Ear, solo show with 3 series, all September
- Brussels, Nieuwland site - final installation of Colors of Shade, facade installation, 77 plexi plates (40x60cm) and ferrite magnets, commission VGC June - ongoing
- masterclasses KASK/Ghent & Conservatory of Amsterdam, spring
- Basel, Audio Leakage Community, collective workshop at CML & impro gig at HEK
2022
- Brussels, Q-O2, as part of book launch (by ed. Elena Biserna): electronic improvisation on analog synths, 9 dec
- Antwerp, FOMU (Fotomuseum), book launch, talk, presentation, 8 dec
- Den Hague, Royal Academy of Art, guest lecture for Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE), 3 dec
- Brussels, Ticky Tacky bookstore, book launch "Belgian solutions - Vol.3", 17 nov
- Marseilles, Chroniques- Biennale of digital imagination, with "Imagine there was no roof" - sound meditation rugs, 10 Nov 2022 - 22 Jan 2023
- Copenhagen, Simian, In Situ Festival, sound performance with "Echo-Ovations with Slammed Doors", 29 Oct
- Antwerp, Luster (editor), book launch "Belgian solutions - Volume 3", October 2022
- Hasselt, PXL-MAD, opening of study year with Bark like a dog , 29 Sept
- Dijon, les presse du réel, two contributions in "Walking from Scores" (ed. Elena Biserna), 5 Sept
- Eupen, Meakusma/IKOB, audio guide (ongoing since 2016), 1 - 4 Sept
- Vienna, Fluc, Gruppe Uno Wien, Flucsus, scores on posters in public space, July
- Herzele, GvR - Art Hike, Bark like a dog, commission, 3 July
- Brussels, Oscillation Festival, Q-O2, Figures of Walking Together, 30 April & 1 May
- The Brussels Times Magazine, article about Belgian Solutions, print+online, April
- Madrid, CentroCentro, Vang Festival, Carolta Cáceres, No Music - earpieces, 17 March
2021
- podcast, Soundmaking ep.50, Echo-Ovations 1&2, 24 Dec
- Seoul, Space One, 여인영/ Inyoung Yeo, sound design for video work of "Spiraling into the slippery edges of a hole", 20-28 November
- Luxembourg, Rainy days Festival, Wunderkammer, intro-active performance, "David Helbich Scores for the Body, the Building and the Soul for the Philharmonie Luxembourg, 2021", 21 November (13h30)
- Luxembourg, Rainy days Festival, Ictus Ensemble, performance, "Line-Up" (for 6 performers), 20 November (17h)
- Brussels, Wild Gallery (Ictus invites), electronic improvisation together with Travis Just, 6 November
- Belgium, Luster (publisher), reprint of Belgian solutions - volume 1&2, October
- Eschborn (Frankfurt/D), Eschborn K, electronic improvisation together with Hannes Seidl & Michael Maierhof, October
- Maastricht, Marres - Maastricht Tracks (new version), audio guide/book, September - ongoing
- Amsterdam, Oude Kerk, AMSTERDANTWERPEN, sound poem/performance, September
- Brussels, CIVA, group exhibition "Walking from Scores" (curator Elena Biserna), 9 July - 8 August
- Bratislava, Sensorium Festival, Square Waves and Round Hits - headphone compositions for an intro- and outro-active audience (2021), 26 June (ongoing)
- Porto, Serralves - PERISCOPE podcast series "Echo-Ovations (some spaced out thoughts and memories about acoustic impressions)", 25 May ongoing
- Frankfurt, Basis - "House of Ear"for group expo We Can Be Heros (together with Christina Kubisch, Lea Letzel, Michael Maierhof, Christoph Ogiermann, Oxana Omelchuk, Uwe Rasch, curated by Hannes Seidl), 2 June - 1 August 2021
- Brussels, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, "ECHO OVATIONS: SHOUTING, acoustic intervention together with Lilia Mestre and Michael Schmid, 24 + 25th of April
- Brussels, Kanal-Centre Pompidou - "Line-Up" (2010) for 5 performers with Ictus Ensemble
, 15 April(postponed to autumn 2021) - Brussels, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, SCORES FOR THE BODY, THE BUILDING & THE SOUL, score book for the very building of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, from Sept 2020 till 25th of April
2020
- Menen (BE), CC De Steiger, 'City Trip', with Belgian solutions (photography), group show, 2020/21
- Amsterdam, Oude Kerk (Old Church), Echo-Ovations: Slammed Doors, Long Tails, Around and Around, sound performance for doors and electronics,
6 November (8a.m.!)postponed to 2021 - Brussels, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, various performances and intervention throughout John Armleder exhibition:
- Brussels, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Echo-Ovations: HUMAN DELAYS FROM INNER SPACE, sound & listenig performance, 18 Oct
- Brussels, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, SCORES FOR THE BODY, THE BUILDING & THE SOUL, score book for the very building of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, from Sept 2020 on
- Brussels, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, "ECHO OVATIONS: SHOUTING, intervention/performance for the opening of solo show by John Armleder, 24/25 September 2020
- Amsterdam, Oude Kerk/Mister Motley, "The World After: Conversation Pieces", video work in groups show, 19 Sept - 3 January 2021
- Frankfurt, Palmengarten/Mousonturm/Radio, part of Your Are Here!, 19 Sept
- Porto, Serralves Museum, The Museum as Perfromance, Scores for the Body, the Building & the Soul, 12/13 Sept
- Internet, "1000 Scores. Pieces for Here, Now&Later", website project by Helgard Haug, Cornelius Puschke, David Helbich, launch June
- Amsterdam, Oude Kerk + Mister Motley, "Mini-Score for becoming", online video contribution for "The World After" with thoughts and a score, may/june 2020
- Internet, Scores for Looking out the Window, score series for the lock down and after, ongoing
- Seoul, South Korea, D Museum, SounD Musuem, group show with HOUSE OF EAR, including: No Music - earpieces, Finger Techno and (new!) Carpet Meditations, postponed to 19 May - 27 Dec 2020
- Manchester, The White Hotel, INTIMATE festival by Kintic, No Music - earpieces (remix), performed by Gwen Rouger, 20 Feb
2019
red = new works
- Antwerp, FOMU (Museum for Photography) - Photobook Belge, group show, with Belgian solutions vol 1&2, Feb - Oct 2019
- Brussels, Nieuwland site - Colors of Shade, facade installation, 18 plexi plates (40x60cm) and ferrit magnets, April - ongoing
- Brussels, Nieuwland site - (photo library project/no title yet), growing collection of photos (15 for now), 400x600cm, dibond, to be exchanged between organisations, launch May 2019
- Brussels, Recyclart - Fuseum van de Motografie / Fusée de la Motographie, group show with My Seoul Memes, photo series, 25 July
- Berlin, Beuth Hochschule für Technik, "No Music" intervention, for valedictory lecture of Boris Balin, 1 February
- Gent, De Bijloke: "House of Ear", sound installation & self-performance parcours with students of CASC@KASK and GAME, 6 April
- Frankfurt, HfMDK (IzM), New Music Night: listening automat (former "inverted operas"), music/game concept for ensemble and self-performing audiences in public spaces (created together with Holly Gramazio and Roasrio Talevi) with students of Lucas Fels, 30 April
- Ghent, Croxhapx, drag and drop - hit and run - making love - just for fun, Walk-Performance, 17 May
- Berlin, Kantine am Berghain, "for incoming crowd- D.J.H", live electronic set for Time Krytall III, 21 June
- Berlin, BKA-Theater, Unerhörte Musik, Hallo 1 - 2 - 3 (2000), for solo guitar by Kobe Van Couwenberghe, 25 June
- Belgrade, Belgrade Philharmonic (for Phones:On), NO-MUSIC: earpieces (remix 2) (2019), played by Ensemble Zabuna, 27 June
- Eupen (BE), Meakusma Festival 2019, head and phones, land and scape, night or day, all one shape (2016), headphone compositions for people in landscape, 7&8 Sept
- Hasselt (BE), z33, "trans & form, breath & hum, dive & touch, hit & run", new work 2019, headphone compositions, inauguration 15 Sept (from then ongoing)
- Maastricht, Marres, intro-activity for performative audiences (work title), 18 September
- Brussels, Walter (SMOG series), audience observations & "schnipsen": snapping for sound and image (2001), with The Third Guy (Ruben Martinez Orio & Primož Sukič), 27 Sep
- Ghent, Vooruit, sound work for "Mount Takl" by Heike Langsdorf, 30&31 October
- Leuven, STUK (beyond music), "all one shape" (premier), sound performance, 27 November (FB event)
- Brussels, Nieuwland site, various projects, long-term commission VGC, all year
- Novi Sad, Belgrade Philharmonic (for Phones:On), NO-MUSIC: earpieces (remix 2) (2019), played by Ensemble Zabuna, 16 Dec
- Rennes (F), Les Tombées de la Nuit, photos, associated artists for 2019 for cover of bi-monthly print. all year
- Lisbon, Orfeu Negro: Performance in the Public Sphere (ebook version of the printed paperback Performance na Esfera Pública (Orfeu Negro, 2017) with "Scores for the Body, the Building and the Soul for the Sao Luiz Teatro in Lisbon", spring 2019
- Antwerp, publ. Hannibal & FOMU (photomusuem Antwerp), Photobook Belge, with Belgian solutions vol 1&2, catalogue and exhibition, spring 2019
- Leuven, University Press: Photography Performing Humor, with photo series "Trying to look like a building" and "Belgian solutions" (edited by Liesbeth Decan and Mieke Bleyen), published March 2019
- Brussels, Chaos Créatif/Creatiefmet Chaos, by RAB / BKO: Belgian solutions in research publication on the Brussels institutional landscape in the arts (FR/NL), PDF, December 2019
- Brussels, Bellone: Brussels Talk, public interview about "What people say", "Belgian solutions" and "project Nieuwland", 27 Feb
- Hasselt, AZ nights, talk about new commission by Art Museum Z33, 19 March
- Ghent, KASK, masterclass with students of CASC@KASK and GAME, 2018/19
- Darmstadt, INMM/Akademie der Tonkunst: "(aus sich) Rausgehen - soziale Choreographien und Intro-aktivität" lecture& performance with and by audience, 26 April
- Frankfurt, HfMDK (IzM), project class/workshop, improvisation and interactivity, April
- Brussels, LUCA school of arts, Brussels walk, 16 September
- Brussels, Street Photography Festival, curation, teaching, presentation, jury, 4-6 Oct
- BBC Radio 3 in "Sound of the Week" 7min feature, 9 November 2019
- ARTE, "Babel Express", rebroadcast of program about Belgian artists, 15 June (online till 21/6)
- Belgium, Still magazine, Brussels Tracks meets a visual impaired listener, article + photos by Veerle Frissen, January
- Belgium, RTBF (TV), Belgian solutions feature for "7 à la une", 7min, January
2018
projects and pieces
- Athens, MIR festival, "drag and drop - hit and run - making love - just for fun", night performances in the streets, Nov 28/29
- Leuven, Stuk, opening of season, No Music-earpieces, Sept 27
- Eupen, Meakusma Festival, audio guided sound art for landscape
- Darmstadt, Summer Courses/IMD, audience choreography, July
- London & online, BBC Radio 3, broadcast of No Music, the Café Oto show, streams all July
- Frankfurt, Alte Oper, Playsonic Festival, Ensemble Modern, performative intervention, together with Holly Gramazio and Rosario Talevi, 25-27 May
- London, Summerset House, Now Play This festival, various audience scores and interventions, April
- London, Café Oto, performance, NO MUSIC - a performative rehearsal, 13 January
- exhibitions
- New York City, Queens Museum, S.T.E.P. group exhibition, "Be there, Do This", ground score, Oct 28 - Dec 2
- Berlin, C/O Berlin, EMOP, Fusee de la Motographie, My Seoul Memes, photo series, group show, Sept 29
- Warsaw, Nowy Teatre, Festival Instalakcje 7, festival and exhibition with "No Music - earpieces: techno", 18/19 Aug
- Eupen, IKOB-Museum of Conteporary Art, old and new work, group show, Aug 1- Oct10
- Antwerp (BE), Fuseum van de Motografie at FOMU: My Seoul Memes, photo series, group show, 28 June
- Lodz (PL), Fuseum of Motography at Fotofestiwal 2018, My Seoul Memes, photo series, group show, Schillera passage & Art_Inkubator, 22 & 24 June
- Liége (BE), Fusée de la Motografie, au musée de La Boverie (Recyclart), My Seoul Memes, photography, group show, 18 March
- St.Vith (BE), arsVitha Kulturforum, solo exhibition, "Belgian solution", photography, large prints, 16 Feburary - 3 March
- Charleroi, Fusée de la Motografie, Hangar Art Center/Recyclart, My Seoul Memes, photo series, group show, 9 Feburary
- Brussel, Fusée de la Motografie, Hangar Art Center/Recyclart, My Seoul Memes, photo series, group show, 11 January
- publications
- Maastricht, book contribution, "Maastricht Tracks for body and building (new version!)" in "Maastricht - Gids for zintuigen" (ISBN/EAN: 978-90-828134-0-1), Hanne Hagenaars/Marres, launch 1 Feb
- online, ArchiNed, photography, cover homepage and facebook page, Dec/Jan
teaching and lectures
- Frankfurt, HfMDK (IzM), project class, dec
- Ghent, KASK, masterclass, 12-16 Nov
- Ghent, U Gent, sound, body and building, lecture-performance, 9 Oct
- Eupen, IKOB-Museum for contemporary art, voices and self-performance, 7 Oct
- Darmstadt, Summer Courses for New Music, workshop composer-performer together with Jennifer Walshe, 4-28 July
- Den Haag, Royal Academy of Art, Master Interior Architecture, INSIDE, lecture, 6 March
- Brussels, Ictus/Q-O2, workshop on audience observations & visitors scores, 2 March
- Ghent, KASK/Ictus/Q-O2, symposium Sound & Participation, lecture, 26 February
half 2016-2017
projects and pieces
- Deventer, Lebuiniskerk, interventions for choir and interactive audience
- Maastricht, Marres, lecture-performance with Rudi Laermans
- Hamburg, Kraftwerk Bille/Hallo Festspiele, audience scores, performance and publication
- Seoul, dotolim 닻올림, No-Music, performance
- London , Café Oto, performance No-Music - a performative rehearsal
- Lisbon, Sao Luiz Teatro, audience scores, performance & publication
- Luxebourg, Rainy Days Festival, Philharmonie, new publication/score book, audio guides for malls & performances
- publisher Luster, Antwerp: BELGIAN SOLUTIONS - VOLUME II, photo book
- Berliner Festspiele, Martin Gropius Bau, big scale installation, social choreography
- Eupen, Meakusma Festival, audio guided sound art for landscape
- Amsterdam, Oude Kerk, nachtelijke dwalingen & Museumnacht, visitor scores, choir intervention, walk performance
exhibitions
- Tourinnes (BE), Chez Niesten, piece in group show The New Normal
- Brussels, Brass, Brik group exhibition, two big scale photo prints
- Seoul, SASG, studio showing, photo prints, text prints and video
- New York City, Carriage Trade, photo print at Social Photography V group show, web + exhibition
- Brussels, Botanique, framed photo prints, group show (curator Erik Kessel)
- Istanbul, Supa Salon, piece in group show "The New Normal"
- Beirut, The Hangar, "Music in 24 Pieces" in group show "The New Normal"
publications, essays, magazines, ...
- Belgian architecture magazine A+ #261, 6 pages with photos, February 2017
- White Zinfandel #7, magazine, New York, 2 photos, February 2017
- Musiktexte #149 (DE and EN), essay, 2016
- Positionen #108, essay, 2016
- The Metropolitan Laboratory #1 (DE/EN), 8 photos, 2016
teaching and lectures
- Bremen, HFK, guest teaching "composer-performer" & "sound and image", invited by Jennifer Walshe, December, 2017
- Hamburg, HfMT, guest lecturer "composition and practice", invited by Alexander Schubert, November 2017
- Seoul, RAT School of Art, lecture-performance, September 2017
- Van Eyck, Maastricht: masterclass (with Yeb Wiesma), September 2016
- International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt: workshops & teaching (with Jennifer Walshe and Florian Malzacher), March & August 2016
