The work of Lawrence Malstaf (1972, Bruges, Belgium) is situated on the borderline between the visual and the theatrical. He develops installation and performance art with a strong focus on movement, coincidence, order and chaos, and immersive sensorial rooms for individual visitors. He also creates larger mobile environments dealing with space and orientation, often using the visitor as a co-actor. His projects involve physics and technology as a point of departure or inspiration and as a means for activating installations. 

Lawrence Malstaf has received several international awards in the field of art and new technology. He is also well known as an innovative scenographer in the dance and theatre world. 

He currently lives and works in Tromsø (Norway) & Oudenaarde (Belgium) and exhibits internationally.

• Being in the Middle 02004, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
• The Long Now - 01997 - 02008, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B)
• Lawrence Malstaf -  Art & Technology Award Witteveen + Bos, 2008 (NL)
• The Long Now, Festival de Marseille 02008 (F)
• Exhibiting the Visitor - 01997 - 02011, STRP Festival, Eindhoven (NL) &  Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B)
• The Poetics of Immersion, FILE SOLO 02017, FILE Festival São Paulo (BR)

02024 Shrink, Sismógraf Festival, Olot, (CAT) - Seagull Fountain, NaturArchy - IMAL, Brussels (B) - Exhale, Saint-Ex Reims (FR) - Shrink, Baltoscandal, Rakvere (EST) - Shrink, NOVUM 2024, New Castle (UK) - Exhale / Pust, Shanghai Internationaldance Centre (ROC) - Nemo Observatorium, Criatech, Teatro Vaveirense, Aveiro (PT) - Shrink, Frankfurter Kunstverein (D)

02023 Shrink, Trondheim Kunstmuseum (NO) - FLOOD, Chroniques Biennale, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR) - Overview, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art (ROC) - Shrink, Nuit Blanche, Paris (F) - Shrink, L.E.V. Festival, Madrid (ES) - Nemo Observatorium, Le Pavillon & KIKK Festiavl, Namur (B) - Pust / Exhale, Trondheim, Dans i Trøndelag (NO) - Shrink, Post-Umano L’ulteriorità, Torino Art Week, Torino (IT) - Nevel / New Religion, Dansefestival Barents, Hammerfest (NO)

02022  Boreas, SLOW Festival, Concertgebouw, Brugge (B) - SULT & Nevel x 4, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy (NO) - Shrink, Trondheim Kunstmuseum (NO) - FLOOD, Chroniques Biennale, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)

02021 New Religion / Nevel,  Festspillene i Nord Norge (NO) - Faith, Hope and Thermodynamics / Merzbau, Festspillene i Nord Norge (NO) - Shrink, City of Sciences, Kulturprojekte Berlin (D) - Conversations, YI / A Chair, ZHI Art Museum, Chengdu (ROC) -Sarah og Friheten, Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø (NO)

02020 Shrink, Festival Out of the Box, Whitebox, Munich (D) - Faith, Hope & Thermodynamics, replaced by Corona Diaries with STATEX collective, Varscenefest, Tromsø (NO) - Metabolic Spaces, solo exhibition, Territorium, Spheres, Nevel, Nemo Observatorium & Shrink, Le Tetris, Le Havre (F) - Shrink (video), A New World, Stroom Den Haag (NL) - Merzbau & Shrink, Tromsø Sjøfront Laboratorium(NO) - Shrink, BOZAR, Brussels (B) - Sarah og Friheten, Perspektivet Museum Tromsø, (NO)

02019 D.I.Y., Nemo Observatorium & Shrink, Trajectoires festival, Stereolux, Nantes (F) - Double Compass 2.0, solo exhibition, TETEM, Enschede (NL) - Utopia  & Spheres, Bal du Sarongue, Rio de Janeiro (BR) - Dette Barnet’, Det Norske Teatret, Oslo (NO) - Archeologies, Nemo Observatorium and Shrink x 5, IMOA Beijing (ROC) - Polygon, SPRING Festival Utrecht (NL) - Pavilion, Scopitone Festival, Stereolux, Nantes (F) 

02017 Overview, scenography for Melting, Grand Theatre Groningen (NL) - Compass, Nuit Numérique & Exposition Collective, Saint-Ex, Reims (F) - Scenography for Sisters, Dansehallerne Copenhagen (DK) - Tollen, scenography for Nachtelijk Symposium, KVS, Brussels (B), Vooruit Gent (B), Toneelhuis, Antwerpen (B) and more - Conversations & Sandbible, L’Ososphère, Strasbourg (F) - EXHALE, Riga, (LV) - Folding installation, Où sont les sons? Where Are Sounds? Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels (B) - Stat & Ekstase performance, Peripheral Centre, Tromsø (NO) - Overview, FILE Festival, Bubbling Universes, São Paulo (BR) - FILE SOLO 2017, The Poetics of Immersion, São Paulo (BR) - Shrink, FILE Festival, Disruptiva, Brasilia (BR) - Polygon, RakettNatt, Tromsø (NO) - EXHALE, Dansens Hus, Oslo (NO) - Nemo Observatorium, Nuit Blanche, Brussels (B) - EXHALE, Insomnia Festival, Tromsø (NO) - Scenography for ‘Søstre’, performance by Haugen Produksjoner, Talinn (EE) - 6 x Shrink & Event Horizon, KIKK Festival, Namur (B) - Overview, scenography for Melting, Black Box Theatre, Oslo (NO) - Conversations, Les Faits du Hasard, Némo Biennale, Le 104, Paris (F) - Homo Religiosus, Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø (NO) 

02015 Event Horizon, Small Projects, Tromsø (NO) - Scenography for The Wizard of OZ, director Jon Tombre, Hålogaland Teater, Tromsø (NO) - Conversations & Shrink, Vormidable, museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag (NL) - Transporter, St Baafsabdij, Gent (B) - Tipping Point, MandelArt (B) -  Event Horizon, BOZAR, Brussel (B),  Sandbible, Le Triangle Bleu, Stavelot (B) - Spheres, scenography for East by Arco Renz, ACC Gwangju (ROK) & Creative Media Centre Hong Kong (HK) - Solid State, stage version performance by Arco Renz, Dance house, Melbourne (AU) 

02012 Pavilion, Super Bodies Triënnale, Hasselt (B) - Compass, FACT, Liverpool (UK) - Alexander, Hålogaland Teater Tromsø (NO) - Transporter, Kunstenfestival Watou (B) - Nemo Observatorium, Nuit Blanche, Metz (F) - Territorium & Conversation, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B) -  Shrink, Nuit Blanche 2, Metz (F) - Transporter, Pavilion & Solid State, Vooruit, Gent (B) - Solid State, STUK, Leuven (B) - Solid State, Kunstikit, Rådstua Tromsø (NO) - Shrink, Z33, Hasselt (B) - Pavilion, ICC, Gent (B)

02011 Transporter & Nemo Observatorium, Le Centquatre, Paris (F) - Territorium / Mad, tour in Norway - Shrink & 'Compass, Reims (F) -  Shrink, Théatre Garonne, Toulouse (F) - Knot, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B) - Pavilion, Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht (NL) - Orbit / Jesus, Finn festival Harstad (NO) -  Shrink & Nemo Observatorium, FILE Festival, São Paulo (BR) - Nemo Observatorium, National Museum of China, Beijing (ROC) - Shrink,  Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL) -  Shrink, Eyebeam, New York (USA) - Mirror & Shrink, Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh (USA) - Shaft & Mirror, Le Centquatre, Paris (F) -  Pavilion / Dust, Stadsschouwburg, Leuven (B)

02009 Prik, various locations in Belgium - Solo exhibition ART & TECHNOLOGY AWARD 2008, Witteveen + Bos, Bergkerk, Deventer (NL) - Compass, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Expanded Box, ARCO, Madrid (ES) - Compass, Kaaitheater, Brussel (B) - Transporter, Sensorama, Warande, Turnhout (NL) - Knot, Zennestraat 17, Brussels (B) • Transporter, Sensorama, Monty, Antwerp (B) - Shrink, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL) - Lawrence Malstaf, Solo exhibition, La Ferme-du-Buisson, Paris (F) - Nemo Observatorium (Golden Nica Award) and Shrink,  Prix Ars Electronica, Linz (AT) - Whirlpool, Past Present Future, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B) • Boreas, Zennestraat 17, Brussels (B) • Scenography for ‘Frame for Nostalgia’ by Liv Hanne Haugen, Tromsø (NO)

02006 Nevel & Fans, Artefact, STUK, Leuven (B) & TESLA, Podewil, Berlin (D) - Compass, Victorian Circus, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) - Shrink, Schauspielhaus Zürich (CH) & Schauspielhaus Frankfurt (D) - Shaft, Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL) - Compass, Melkweg, Amsterdam (NL) - Sand bible, Whirlpool & The Long Now, Free State’ Ostend (B) - Compass, Homo Futuris, Vooruit, Gent (B) - Tollen, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B)

02005 Nemo Observatorium, ARCO 2005, Madrid (ES) - Nevel, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B) - Shaft & Nemo Observatorium, TIME Festival Gent (B) - Compass, Corpus Bruges & 4x4,  Les Bains::Connective, Brussels (B) - Periscope, Passages, Leeuwarden  (NL) - Shrink, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf & Schauspielhaus Hamburg (D) - Mirror, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg (NL) - Compass & Shrink, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent (B) 

02004 Being in the Middle, solo-exhibition, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) - Sauna in Exile, Norlysfestival, Tromsø in co-production with Halogaland Teater (NO) - Shaft, Feel, Z33 Hasselt (B) -Chairs, performance for ‘4x4’, Les Bains::Connective, Brussels (B) - Jaga Experience, scenography for a private event (B)

01998 Installations and performance for Crash_Landing, improvisation project by Meg Stuart, combining performance, music & visual arts in Leuven (B), Vienna (AT), Paris (F), Lisbon (PT)

01997 Liquid Quantum Garden, Spinning Tree, performance and installation with Liv Hanne Haugen and Vincent Malstaf (NO & B) - Foundation of Bains::Connective, Brussels, interdisciplinary workspace in former swimming pool (B)

01996 Installation for Insert Skin, Choreography by Meg Stuart, Copenhagen (DK), Brussels (B), Leuven (B), Oslo (NO), Dijon (F), Lisbon (PT) - Shrink, performance-installation, Brussels (B), Vienna (AT), Copenhagen (DK), Kortrijk (B), Genk (B), Paris (F)

01995 Set design for The Water fait Mal, Choreography by Benoît Lachambre, Amsterdam (NL), Berlin (D), Leuven (B), São Paulo (BR), New York (USA), Montreal (CA)

01994 Gubalin, performance installation with Vincent Malstaf, Antwerp, Leuven (B) - Set design for Combinaison, Choreography by Bert Van Gorp, Leuven, Gent, Antwerp (B) • October, November, December, 3 installations for CC De Kern, Antwerp (B)

01993 Foundation Krul vzw Antwerp, Brussels, presenting work in progress of several art forms