David Weber-Krebs is a theatre director, a film- and video-maker, and a performer. His work varies between theatre performances that either are intimist or stage crowds, lecture performances, events for one spectator in the public space, as well as films and videos. He explores various contexts as a basis for an experimental process, which questions the traditional relationship between the work of art and its public. The spectator is placed right into the centre of the work, which is playing with his perception and expectations. Weber-Krebs emphasizes the place of spectacle as a shared social space. One of the recurrent features of his work is the relationship between the individual and the group as well as his tie and his power of belonging to a community or a society.
David Weber-Krebs creates situations engaging the spectator in a complex game between getting absorbed or merging with an art piece, and keeping his critical distance towards it. Be it by staging actors (ex. into the big world), a donkey (Balthazar), a minimalist sculpture (Performance, Robert Morris revisited) or a public space (Miniature), the form is ever reduced to its simplest expression. It becomes like a projection screen, inviting the spectator into a mode of active contemplation where meaning is not given but produced by the spectator. The theatre performance Fade out (2005) for example, is based on the slow extinction of the lights until the whole space lays in complete darkness. Two actors accompany this drama of irreversible disappearance and until its final consequence. The public is both witness and active participant of this highly sensitive process. While the lights are fading-out, the eyes of each spectator must adapt to the new situation until everything is plunged into darkness.
The work of David Weber-Krebs has been shown all over Europe and beyond in theatres, art spaces, cultural centers and festivals. For an extensive cv click here.
David is collaborating on the project Miniature with Alexander Schellow since 2005 and on the project Catalog of Situations with Jan-Philipp Possmann since 2007.
David is teaching concept development at the Amsterdam School of the Arts and at the Dutch Art Institute (with Jan-Philipp Possmann).
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artistic direction
david weber-krebs: davidweberkrebs@yahoo.fr
management & production
karolien derwael (klein verzet): karoliend@gmail.com
kristin van der weken (klein verzet): kristinkleinverzet@gmail.com
communication
daisy benz: benz.daisy@gmail.com
research and artistic assistance
marie urban: marie.urban.mrs@gmail.com
webdesign
paul wolterink: departmentofdevelopment.blogspot.com
In 2009 David created STICHTING INFINITE ENDINGS, the Dutch organization producing and selling his work in the Netherlands and abroad. Marijke Hoogenboom and Marten Oosthoek constitute the board of STICHTING INFINITE ENDINGS.
Over the years the following people have advised, supported, inspired, collaborated to the work of David Weber-Krebs: Mike van Alfen, Arnaud Arseni, Andreas Bachmair, Carola Bärtschigger, Johannes Bellinkx, Daisy Benz, Magne van den Berg, Nicole Beutler, Anne Breure, Jeroen Busscher, Agnese Da Col, Karolien Derwael, Anne van Dorp, Tim Egmond, Abdelkarim El Baz, Jan Fedinger, Pablo Fontdevila, Thomas Frank, Godehard Giese, Diego Gil, Matthew Goulish, Benoit Goupy, Kaz de Groot, Myriam van Gucht, Maximilian Haas, Niki Hadikoesoemo, Hester van Hasselt, Hanna Hegenscheidt, Dirk de Hooghe, Marijke Hoogenboom, Martin Kaffarnik, Meindert Koelink, Inge Koks, Erik Lambert, Jan Langedijk, Floor Van Leeuwen, Coordt Linke, Rob List, Jennifer Minetti, Attila Nemeth, Tim Nieburg, Irina Müller, Ivana Müller, Arnoud Noordegraaf, Maarten Oosthoek, Loes van der Pligt, Jan-Philipp Possmann, Noha Ramadan, Janneke Raaphorst, Jellichje Reijnders, Joost Rietdijk, Tjebbe Roelofs, Paz Rojo, Anne Rooschüz, Alexander Schellow, Tim Senders, Joggem Simons, Minna Tiikkainen, Mark Timmer, Marie Urban, Sarah Vanhee, Sus Verbruggen, Dionne Verwey, Ben Visser, Danielle Van Vree, Kristin Van der Weken, Hans Westendorp, Maarten Westra Hoekzema, Hendrik Willekens, Sanne de Wit, Manfred Olek Witt, Nicolas Weber-Krebs, Fridolin Weber-Krebs, Anja Wodsak, Paul Wolterink, Jean-Baptiste van Zeebroeck and some more.
Over the years the work of David Weber-Krebs has been conceived, developed, produced and shown at 2.Tants, Brakke Grond, Brut, De Appel arts Center, Centro De Criaçao Do Dirceu, Frascati, Gasthuis, In between time/Arnolfini, Theater Kikker, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, de Nieuwe Vide, De Nieuwe Vorst, Springdance, Abbaye d’Orval, PAF, Panorama Festival/Rio de Janeiro, Politik im freien Theater, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, deSingel, Stuk Kunstencentrum, Sophiensaele, Steirischer Herbst, Teylers Museum, Theaterschool Amsterdam, Tent Rotterdam, Tseh Dance Agency, het Veem Theater, La Villette, Volksbühne am-Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Monastère de Wavreumont, Zeebelt, Zeitraumexit and some more.