Dirk Braeckman (born 1958 in Eeklo,

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

) is a Belgian photographer who lives and works in

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

. The artist studied photography and film at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent from 1977 until 1981.

Photography career

Dirk Braeckman has had numerous group exhibitions and several solo shows in Europe, including ones at Ghent's SMAK (2001)and the De Pont Foundation in Tilburg (2004). He has received considerable acclaim for his portraits of the Belgian king Albert II and Queen Paola, photographs commissioned by the

Royal Palace of Brussels The Royal Palace of Brussels (french: Palais royal de Bruxelles, , nl, Koninklijk Paleis van Brussel , german: Königlicher Palast von Brüssel) is the official palace of the King and Queen of the Belgians in the centre of the nation's capita ...

. In addition to his photographic body of work, Braeckman creates site specific installations, for varying projects such as ''Beaufort'' in Ostend or Watou's art and poetry festival. Recently a permanent installation of a monumental photowork (of which a facsimile is now presented at Robert Miller's Gallery) has been inaugurated at the new . In 2002 Braeckman was granted the cultural award of the University of Louvain and received the Cultural Prize of the Flemish Community, Section Fine Arts in 2005. Braeckman's images have appeared in numerous magazines, books and catalogues. Most recently in the ''Photo Art'' book, published by Dumont, Thames & Hudson and Aperture. in 2017 Braeckman represented Belgium at the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

Publications

Braeckman has published two artist's books, ''z.Z(t). I'' and ''z.Z(t) II''. The abbreviation in the title stands for the German expression ''zur Zeit'', which means "for now", "at this very moment". On his commission for the Belgian Royal Palace he published the book ''Chiaroscuro''.

Bibliography

* Dirk Braeckman, ''Dirk Braeckman'', Roma Publications, Amsterdam 2011,

References

External links

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Zeno X Gallery - Dirk Braeckman
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