English:David Weber-Krebs Q154161

David Weber-Krebs (Be/D) is an artist based in Brussels.

Recent works are the performances The Death of Ivan Ilyich (2021), The Silencing (2022) and the project The Moment of Silence (2025).

David is the curator of the series of performance-conferences On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors (with Jeroen Peeters) in which they address this question: how are the arts (its questions, forms, research and discourses) challenged by climate change?

He is the initiator and editor of the book and then the doors opened again (Onomatopee) in which, in the heat of the first COVID-lockdown, 75 authors imagine their first theatre visit after being confined at home.

David collaborates on a regular basis with different artists and theorists. He is regularly leading projects and mentoring at visual arts and performing arts academies, among others, Das Graduate school, the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), the mime school at the Academy of Theatre and Dance (Amsterdam) and at the Performance department of KASK/School of Arts. David is an alumni of THIRD!, the third cycle research group of Das Graduate school (Amsterdam).

David studied at the University of Fribourg (CH) at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (NL) and at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent (B). In December 2024, David Weber-Krebs obtained the degree of Doctor in the Arts (Visual Arts) at KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts and Ghent University with his doctoral research titled Exercising Fragility in Theatres and Beyond.

He is founding member of Outline VZW alongside Begüm Erciyas and Ula Sickle. OUTLINE is an independent platform that produces and supports their transdisciplinary work. Outline is supported by Flanders, State of the Art.