news & dates

permanent works

since

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, Marres, Audio Guide & Score Book, Maastricht, 56p.
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

2013 Belgian solutions, Volume 1 - 3 (resp.2016&22, 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

2024

Brugges, Concertgebouw - inauguration of permanent works Imagine There Was No Roof and Music In Pieces, October (deep listening day)
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
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

exhibitions, installations- 2019

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

projects, pieces & performances (sounds, moves, installments) - 2019

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

publications & print - 2019

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

lectures & teaching - 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

press & documentations, features - 2019

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