Monday 22nd of March 1599 (+) — Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck is born
Saturday 3rd of October 1609 (x) — Painter Peter Paul Rubens marries Isabella Brant
Wednesday 15th of July 1626 (-) — Artist's model and first wife of Peter Paul Rubens Isabella Brant dies of bubonic plague
Friday 6th of December 1630 (x) — Painter Peter Paul Rubens marries Hélène Fourment
Friday 3rd of April 1863 (+) — Painter, architect and interior designer Henry Van de Velde is born
Monday 29th of September 1913 (-) — Inventor and mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel commits suicide by drowning
Diesel boarded the post office steamer Dresden in Antwerpen to London. He took dinner on board the ship and then retired to his cabin leaving word to be called the next morning. He was never seen alive again. In the morning his cabin was empty and his bed had not been slept in. Ten days later the crew of the Dutch boat Coertsen came upon the corpse of a man floating in the North Sea near Norway. Personal belongings were identified by Diesel's son.
Friday 8th of June 1923 (+) — Composer Karel Goeyvaerts is born
Friday 20th of August 1937 (+) — Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is born
Sunday 13th of January 1946 (+) — Serial killer Michel Bellen is born
Tuesday 31st of May 1960 (-) — Writer Willem Elsschot dies of skin cancer
Wednesday 2nd of October 1963 (x) — Serial killer Michel Bellen is sentenced to three years on parole for burglary
Saturday 19th of December 1964 (-) — Victim of Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank Christiane Herreman is raped and strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank
Tuesday 26th of January 1965 (x) — Serial killer Michel Bellen is arrested for auto-theft
Wednesday 1st of December 1965 (x) — The death sentence of Serial killer Michel Bellen is commuted to life imprisonment
Saturday 2nd of April 1983 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos marries Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Wednesday 3rd of February 1993 (-) — Composer Karel Goeyvaerts dies of unknown causes
Monday 1st of November 1999 — The Eyes Had it: A rather boring Franko B. performance
Thursday 13th of September 2001 — The Eyes Had it: A warning sign
Saturday 14th of July 2001 — The Eyes Had it: The inside of a hot air balloon
Friday 18th of January 2002 — The Eyes Had it: An abandoned Jewish print workshop soliciting for an art studio overhaul
Sunday 27th of January 2002 — The Eyes Had it: A walk in Rivierenhof park
Sunday 29th of June 2003 — The Eyes Had it: A concert by Dez Mona
Wednesday 7th of January 2004 — The Eyes Had it: A snappy shot of my home-made Guillotine
Thursday 16th of March 2006 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town'
During the opening of exhibitions in the Antwerp art galleries I left behind unnoticed plastic ALDI bags filled with earth from my hole between the works of other artists in the galleries.
Wednesday 20th of September 2006 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Corner Push Re-Formance'
During the ‘official opening’ of the Bastard Art Gallery I did a ‘re-formance’ of the piece ‘Corner Push’ by Terry Fox.
Saturday 22nd of April 2006 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'The Discovery of James Lee Byars' Tomb'
While looking for places to get rid of the earth from my hole I accidently found the empty tomb of James Lee Byars. I filled it completely with earth so it was kept secret.
Thursday 16th of March 2006 — The Eyes Had it: Some shots from DDV's '13 Galleries and Only One DDV in Town' performance
Monday 20th of February 2006 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos starts 'Diggin' for Gordon' at an undisclosed location
Tuesday 10th of January 2006 — The Eyes Had it: A basement at an undisclosed location where I have been digging a hole as an ungoing performance
Monday 18th of June 2007 — The Eyes Had it: Stuffing a suitcase with earth from my Hole for a performance in Lausanne
Monday 19th of February 2007 — The Eyes Had it: Chinese New Year in Chinatown
Saturday 3rd of February 2007 — The Eyes Had it: Driving our car through a carwash tunnel
Thursday 22nd of March 2007 — The Eyes Had it: Loafs of bread in an automated vending machine waiting to be bought
Wednesday 16th of May 2007 — The Eyes Had it: Preparing for a performance in Finland by filling a wooden box with earth from my Hole
Sunday 10th of June 2007 — The Eyes Had it: Obligatorious democratorius
Monday 19th of April 2010 — The Eyes Had it: The Hole I was 'Diggin' for Gordon' seen from the bottom up
Tuesday 15th of January 2013 — The Eyes Had it: A layer of snow on our rooftop terrace
Wednesday 8th of October 2014 — The Eyes Had it: Evening gloom
Saturday 9th of September 2017 — The Eyes Had it: My somewhat abandoned 'Diggin' for Gordon' Hole
Sunday 31st of December 2017 — The Eyes Had it: A forgettable New Year's eve
Monday 5th of June 2023 — The Eyes Had it: Collapsing Diggin' for Gordon
