Born in 1969 in Brussels (BE)
Christophe Terlinden has had an unusual career path. He studied graphics at ERG, then engraving, followed by sculpture in public and rural spaces at La Cambre. He has no preferred technique (drawing, sculpture, installations, performance, transformation of objects, graphics, design), no studio (he draws and makes things on his kitchen table) and few works actually originate from him.
Christophe Terlinden is a conceptual artist. He draws directly from reality and transforms it with few means. He combines, moves, assembles and reassembles, uses slight shifts in form, materials, context or scale to offer an update and give a new flavour to our everyday lives. For instance, when he restored the station clock in the Leopold neighbourhood in Brussels, which had been razed to the ground to make way for the European Parliament building; or when he had 13 contemporary dances composed for the bells of Grimbergen; or when he designed the new logo for the Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp, getting rid of the U in the acronym M HKA (making it impossible to say). Christophe Terlinden operates in an environment where he crumples and smoothes out meanings, shows us the signs and frees us of the terms which lie at the foundation of our system.
