Christoph De Boeck (2013-2022) Artist / Artistic Director

Christoph De Boeck creates visual sound-based installations. He has been drawn to the physicality of sound in a performative context, treating the sonic as a force unfolding within the empty space of a blackbox.

His exhibition work is marked by a tension resulting from discrepancies between what we experience as visual and what we hear. Recently De Boeck has focused on acoustic traces left behind by stress events. For example, cracks in infrastructure elements are revealed by ultrasonic technology. In this work the arrangement of sound marks relates to a man-made world under pressure. The acoustic image points to a larger event which is taking place within a horizon we cannot yet define. Sound, an instant of physical impact as much as an elusive trace, articulates the displacement of energy in bodies of architecture, of infrastructure and of humans.

His work has been presented in Bozar Brussels, Verbeke Foundation Kemzeke, STUK Leuven, STRP Eindhoven, Netwerk Aalst, z33 Hasselt, Le Bon Acceuil Rennes, Concertgebouw Bruges, Museum for Art & Technology MAAT Lisbon and many other venues.

Christoph De Boeck was until october 2022 artistic co-director of Overtoon, a platform for research, production and distribution in sound arts based in Brussels.