Ólafsson, Ólafur
°1973 - Reykjavik (IS). Lives in Rotterdam and Berlin.Ólafur Ólafsson is an Icelandic-born artist currently based in Rotterdam and Berlin. In his collaborations with Libia Castro, he explores the ways life, society and the personal are influenced and constructed by socio-economic and political factors. ...
Verhoeven, Gert
°1964 - Leuven (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Gert Verhoeven employs various media including drawings, sculptures, videos and installations. In an often ironic and surrealist way, his meta-communicative work investigates the way objects are classified and how their value is determined within various systems. ...
Vandeweerd, Pierre-Yves
°1969 - Rocourt (Belgium).Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd was trained as an anthropologist and journalist specializing in African civilizations. His work is deeply rooted in the tradition of Cinema réel. Most of it has been filmed in Africa, especially in Mauritania and the Sudan, countries throughout which he undertook long travels, accumulating footage of political conflict and the human suffering caused by it. ...
Claus, Eva
°1992 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Eva Claus is a filmmaker currently based in Brussels, Belgium. She has made a number of 16mm short films and was educated at the Friedl Kubelka School for independent film in Vienna, Austria. She obtained her MA and BA in Fine Arts at the photography department The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Her films have been screened in various places over the world. ...
The Atlas Group
°1999The Atlas Group is a project established in Beirut in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group locates, preserves, studies and produces audio, visual, literary and other documents that shed light on this history. The documents are preserved in The Atlas Group Archive which is located in Beirut and New York ...
Vermeir, Katleen
°1973 - Bornem (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.The work of Vermeir revolves around the invisible topographical traces of a city, as well as a series of ‘tableaux vivants’, video paintings identifying universal aspects of human attitudes and architectural models. The collaborative work with her partner Rony Heiremans examines the dynamic relation between art, architecture and economy, and its mediation in private and public spheres. ...
Kastner, Katharina
°1979 - GrazKatharina Kastner is an Austrian filmmaker working in Brussels and Vienna. Her experimental short film about a museum of contemporary art in Brussels, VILLA EMPAIN, builds upon concepts of psychogeography and draws a mental map of a space as it goes through time. ...
Menia, Amina
°1976
Thys, Harald
°1966 - Wilrijk (Belgium).Harald Thys (1966, Wilrijk, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels. He studied at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Fine Arts Department, in the Netherlands. Best known for his collaborations with Jos De Gruyter ...
Adepoju, Aisha
°1995 - Mönchengladbach (Germany). Lives and works in Brussels.Aisha Adepoju studies documentary film at the RITCS in Brussels, where she has lived for several years now, after growing up in the province of West Flanders. She is fascinated by social theme’s. Images from her daily life, photography and illustrations are an important source of inspiration. Adepoju doesn’t necessarily project her ideas on the screen ...
Peres dos Santos, Miguel
°1976 - Lisbon (Portugal). Lives and works in The Hague.Miguel Peres Dos Santos (°1976, Lisbon, Portugal) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By emphasising aesthetics, he reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history. ...
Nouzha, Isabelle
°1976 - Strasbourg (France). Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).Isabelle Nouzha graduated from LUCA School of Arts Brussels, Belgium. In her work she combines film, video, and photography. Violent elements often dictate her scenarios so as breaking points, traces of historical violence, marginalized social groups. ...
Guns, Tine
°1983 - Aalst (Belgium). Lives and works in Ghent.Tine Guns (°1983) focuses on the constant metamorphosis that we experience as human beings, and the inability to capture the fleeting reality. The influence of our memory on how we perceive images results in multiple perceptions and interpretations. Guns’ work tries to open up our linear historiographical point of view by offering new combinations ...
Vanhoe, Reinaart
°1972 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Jakarta (Indonesia).
Benoot, Sofie
°1985 - Bruges (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Documentary filmmaker Sofie Benoot is currently working on Blue Meridian, the second part of a trilogy on "american water" that started with fronterismo (2007) her graduation film project. In her films, she revisits the history and the stories of abandoned and forgotten places which are important to the united states' foundations and mythology. ...
Battersby, Cooper
°1971 - Penticton, British Columbia (Canada).Cooper Battersby (b. 1971, Penticton British Columbia, Canada) and Emily Vey Duke (b. 1972, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada) have been working collaboratively since 1994. They work in printed matter, installation, curation and sound, but their primary practice is the production of single-channel video. ...
Colinet, André
°1955 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels."Andre Colinet works and lives in Brussels. He studied at the RITCS in Brussels and since 1990 he has been lecturing at the high school of arts Sint-Lukas in Brussels. His countless independently produced documentaries and video works exclusively treat with subjects and people who can be directly related to his personal life world ...
Goryainova, Ira A.
°1984 - Moscow (Russia). Lives and works in Belgium.Ira A. Goryainova graduated in 2016 as a documentary director from the Brussels' Royal Institute for Theater, Cinema & Sound and received greatest honor for her thesis. Goryainova plays with the expectations of viewers as she often crosses the borders between fiction and nonfiction. Her personal visual and narrative style is dark and often influenced by underground art movements and film ...
Dufranne, Nicolas
°1977 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.He studied audiovisual arts at Brussels’ La Cambre. Between photography and animated image, his works tell the story of human relations in a dark way and at a slow pace of their own, without any specification of time or place. His work has been shown, among other places, at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen, the Image Film Festival in Toronto and Art Brussels. ...
