Lydia Hannah Debeer
about
List of upcoming and past expositions, concerts and collaborations of Lydia Debeer.
"We love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because
Lydia Hannah Debeer (°1992) is a Belgian visual artist and musician. Her practice explores the spaces in-between sound and image. She creates immersive landscapes through video, live and recorded soundscapes, and music.
Lydia Hannah’s work subtly unravels the different layers of reality, slowly revealing the cyclical interplay between absence and presence. By inviting timeless emptiness into space, Lydia draws out the fragility of landscapes, images, and sounds. Her work thereby mirrors the brittle duality of human existence, caught between the imaginary distance and the shapeless closeness of the real world. It lingers in the mind of the spectator, invoking the onlooker to be drawn after its estranging distance.
Debeer graduated in Fine Arts in 2014 and obtained a postgraduate at the HISK in 2016. She was selected for two international exhibitions for Young Talent, Marres Currents #2 and New Now 2015 – Europes Emerging Artists, and became a laureate of Art’ Contest 2016. She worked in the artist residencies of Hangar in Barcelona and Gasworks in London. In 2020, Debeer released her first album How to Scale a Mountain with the London-based label Bloxham Tapes.
Lydia Hannah is represented by FRED&FERRY gallery .
All images ©Lydia Hannah
EDUCATION
2015-2016 Laureate at the HISK (Higher Instute for Fine Arts), Ghent
2013-2014 Masters in Fine Arts, Sint-Lucas, Ghent
2010-2013 Bachelor in Fine Arts, Sint-Lucas, Ghent
RESIDENCIES
NART, Narva | July 2021
Gasworks, London | March - June 2018
Overtoon, Brussels | January - may 2017
HISK, Ghent | January 2015 untill December 2016
Hangar, Barcelona | February 2016
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT/UPCOMMING
Deeply Rooted | Schönfeld Projects - Antwerpen (BE), 18/05 - 24/06
Tussen Twee Wallen | Keizersbastion & Het Steen - Antwerpen (BE), 18/05 - 21/05
Soloshow Fred & Ferry | FRED&FERRY gallery - Antwerpen (BE), September 2023
SOLO SHOWS
2022
Dearest Strangers, curated by Beatrijs Eemans | All ZNA campuses - ANTWERP (BE)
Portrait of Emotion, threefold solo show curated by Laura Toots | NART - Narva (EL)
Out of Time, Out of Place | Bovenkamer Fred&Ferry, Antwerp (BE)
2017
Absence makes the heart grow fonder | 019 Museum of Moving Practise, Ghent (BE)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023
Art Rotterdam 2023 - represented by Fred&ferry | Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam (NL)
2022
From Edges and Shadows, They Travel to Light | FRED&FERRY invited by Ontsteking (Chinastraat 1, Gent)
2021
HISK alumni exhibition | Gosset Site, Brussels (BE)
2020
YOUNG ARTISTS CONNECTION | 23th of September - SwitchLab, Bucharest (ROM)
RELEASE OF "HOW TO SCALE A MOUNTAIN" | Bloxham Tapes, Londen (UK)
2019
GROWLERS, CRACKLERS & BURSTERS CIAP | Hasselt (BE)
PRIKKELS | Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent (BE)
2018
GASWORKS OPEN STUDIO | Gasworks, London (GB)
TIME CAN TELL | De Directeurswoning, Roeselare (BE)
VIDEOARTE AGORA VIDEO A | Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2017
RE-EXHIBITING MUSEUM OF MOVING PRACTICE | De Fabriek, Eindhoven (NL)
Tallinn Photomonth '17 - screening: Imagining Places: Archisculpture | Tallinn (EST)
Little HISK | Antwerp (BE)
2016
Art'Contest 2016 (2nd lauréate, winner of the Boghossian Foundation prize) | Brussels (BE)
The Empty Foxhole Hisk | Ghent (BE)
Just The Tip | Pulsar, Antwerp (BE)
THIS IS WATER on Ikono TV | distributed from Berlin (GE)
Open Studio's HISK | Ghent (BE)
Último Día Del Verano Paulina Silva Hauyon | Mite galleria, Buenos Aires (ARG)
(first presentation of collective work 'Column')
PARATEXT | Hangar, Barcelona (SP)
2015
EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL | Babylon, Berlin (DE)
AND NO MATHER THAT THE PHONE IS RINGING (special project of Moscow Biennale) | CCI Fabrika, Moscow
NEW/NOW, Europes emerging artists | Westergasfrabriek, Amsterdam (NL)
HISK OPEN STUDIO'S 2015 | HISK Gent (BE)
ART BRUSSELS HISK CAFE | Brussels EXPO, Heisel (BE)
LA DÎNEE | Netwerk, Aalst (BE) (Winner of the public's price)
2014
MARRES CURRENTS | Marres, Maastricht(NL)
THE DIVIDED BODY (500 years Vesalius)| Predikherenkerk, Leuven(BE)
ANOTHER DREAM, ANOTHER SENSE, ANOTHER MIND | Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Leuven (BE)
2013
BANC D'ESSAI 2013 | Acousma Ina GRM, Paris (FR)
one of 10 selected composers
MUSIC FOR CAR PARKS | Interparking & Concertgebouw Brugge (BE)
(one of 10 selected finalists)
PRIZES / GRANTS
Short-term Grant of the Flanders Culture Council for the development of my practice, 2023
Short-term Grant of the Flanders Culture Council for the development of my practice, 2021
Short-term Grant of the Flanders Culture Council for the development of my practice, 2019
Grant for residency in Gasworks (Londen) by Flanders Culture Council, 2018
Art’Contest 2016, Brussel (BE) | 2016
2nd lauréate, winner of the Boghossian Foundation and Cadrart prize
La Dînée, Netwerk Aalst (BE) | 2015
winner of public’s prize
Banc d’Essai, Akousma, MPAA Saint Germain, Paris (FR) | 2013
1 of 10 Laureates with ‘Tremble Garden’
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
The Empty Foxhole (2016) |limited edition publication by Janenrandoald.be
Another Dream, Another Sence, Another Mind (2014)|with texts from Ann Laenen, Filip Luyckx and Bernard Tilleman
Liberty Inviting Artist To Take Part (2014)|an initiative from atelier Mixed Media, Roel Kerkhofs, Esther Venrooij & Valentijn Goethals
PRESS
Prikkels: tussen pijn en passie (2018)| Jan Braet, Knack Weekblad n°48 p. 107
De Jongste Lichting in Marres (2015)|H ART Magazine #13
HISK Open Studio’s in Gent (2016)|Isabelle De Baets in H ART Magazine # 158
COLLABORATIONS
We Have To Think About Something Else, video by Karina Beumer |2017 soundtrack and performance
Grind (grit), film of Jana Coorevits |2015 sounddesign
Innerwoud’s debut album Mirre |2015 guestmusician, voice on Mirre
Machteloos, installation of Hans Demeulenaere | 2013 performance
Split Vinyl Ping Pong Tactics/ Mauro Pawloski / Pieces of Quiet / Facenek | 2011 guestmusician, harp on Stranger in the Night from Pieces Of Quiet
it draws us after it.” - J.W. Goethe
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