David Helbich

David Helbich is a conceptual artist who creates experimental works on stage, in writing, online and in public spaces. He works as a composer, street photographer, and sound/performance artist. Helbich is interested in the understanding of an audience as active individuals, and the search for an opening up of experiences in artistically restricted spaces. Therefore, the notions of guidance and self-performativity are central to his practice.
In the last 15 years, Helbich’s work has been shown all over Europe.
Helbich is the author of the photo book and online collection Belgian Solutions. He realized the album (CD and online) Outcuts, with 18 sound compositions, label Surfacemoise. He received numerous awards among which the First Prize for the composition award ‘ad libitum’ (Stuttgart) for his piano book “Fur aufrichtiges Klavier” (2011). He was nominated for the Prix Fernand Baudin for “Belgian solutions: Volume 1, 2014. In 2012, Helbich was granted a 2 years scholarship for artistic development and research by the Brussels-Flemish community. He also teaches at musuic and dance academies in Europe and collaborates with choreographers such as Mette Edvardson (NO/BE), Eszter Salamon (DE/FR).