Wim Delvoye

Therefore, it seemed apropos to offer a retrospective revealing more of this Belgian artist’s useless productive art – from his intricately hand-carved tyres to Delft Blue-adorned gas canisters and shovels, tattooed pigskins, Tattoo Tim, a Gothic cement truck and, yes, more cloacae to ponder.

Delvoye is well known for his exploration of what it means to be human. Using X-ray images of humans and animals and the scatological works audiences love to hate, he argues that art today is best used to explore, not whether we come from monkeys but how we differ from a grain of rice or even a mouse.


This is Delvoye’s first solo exhibition in Australia.

And why not tour the exhibition with Tattoo Tim, Wim Delvoye’s living, breathing human artwork, who will be leading tours of Wim’s beautiful and disgusting work (you choose) from 10 December to 29 January, Wednesday to Monday (including Tuesday 17 January, when we are usually closed – except this particular Tuesday) at 11am.

Curated by David Walsh, Olivier Varenne and the MONA Team