Bill Viola | Sculptor of Time

Belgium's inaugural world-class exhibition showcasing the unmatched video artist, Bill Viola. Viola's technically impressive works are simultaneously grand and intimate, complex yet surprisingly accessible, spectacular and profoundly human, imbued with universal humanism.

Bill Viola is acclaimed as a leading figure in contemporary art and is hailed as a pioneer of video art. The exhibition is a collaboration between Tempora and Studio Bill Viola at the Musée de La Boverie.

The Exhibition Journey
The exhibition comprises eighteen significant works spanning Bill Viola's three-decade career. Visitors are encouraged to wander freely and immerse themselves in a powerful visual and auditory experience.

Thematic threads, such as transition, ritual, the relationship with the afterlife, life, death, and water as a primary element, interconnect. Spectators can choose their viewpoint, approaching the exhibition without chronological or thematic constraints, allowing them to determine their unique path and pace.

Each installation becomes a standalone world and narrative, open to individual interpretation, inviting contemplation, emotion, and inquiry.

Bill Viola's work encourages contemplation and often leads to personal reflection.

The Artist
In the early 1970s, during his collaboration with Nam June Paik, Bill Viola emerged as a pioneer in video art. Breaking conventions of television and film, he crafted a new grammar for moving images—original, powerful, and enchantingly beautiful.

Bill Viola is globally recognized as a leading contemporary artist and an undisputed pioneer of video art. Over the past 45 years, he has consistently explored humanistic and spiritual themes in his work.

Viola is among the artists who prompt awareness of our finitude, intricately linked to the human condition.