Nyst, Jacques Louis
°1942 - Liège (Belgium).Jacques Louis Nyst, who was a painter, multimedia artist, publicist and also pioneer of Belgian video art, produced a very consistent body of video work. Together with his wife, Danièle Nyst, he made reflective, capricious, fantastic, poetic or purely theoretical videos ...
Opsomer, Els
°1968 - Gent (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Els Opsomer is a video artist, photographer and graphic designer. The complexity of daily reality fascinates her. Drawing from her ever-growing archive of urban images, she compiles personal reinterpretations of global reality, revealing its polymorphic and multi-coloured textures and many illusive sounds and languages buzzing through the streets and over the squares ...
De Cock, Jan
°1976 - Etterbeek (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Jan De Cock is renowned for his sculptural installations, which the artist sees as monuments to Modernism. His monumental installations mix often plywood sculptural modules that recall twentieth-century abstraction – formally referring to the modernist and constructivist idioms – with color and black-and-white photographs, video- and film works ...
Murray, Alison
°1970 - Nova Scotia (Canada). Lives and works in London.Alison Murray studied film at the Royal College of Art. Murray’s oeuvre is based upon personal experience and is formally located between experimental cinema, the music video, video art and narrative film ...
Benisheva, Stefka
°1988 - Bulgaria.Stefka Benisheva is interested in objects, mechanical explanations and hypothetical stories. Montage in the broad sense where a pipe and wheel mean sentiment or a skin disease and the stories - funny or not but always sincere, search for the cracks where life appears more beautiful than real. ...
Voignier, Marie
°1974 - Ris-Orangis (France). Lives and works in Paris.Marie Voignier’s work is constantly seeking to explore the intertwinement of imaginary and factual elements in reality itself ...
Convents, Cherica
°1950 - Diest (Belgium).Cherica Clara Convents (1950, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. She studied film and photography at NARAFI Brussels and St LUCAS Institute Brussels (Belgium); and experimental film at Psychopolis Den Haag (Netherlands). Her main interests include symbolism, metaphysics, mysticism ...
Yanisi, Crispin
°1999 - Born, lives and works in AalstCrispin Yanisi is a young filmmaker from Aalst who completed his bachelor's degree in film studies at KASK and Conservatorium in Ghent, where he is also pursuing his master's degree in film. He draws his inspiration from his everyday life, painting, literature, photography, music, and conversations ...
Cappelle, Justine
°1995 - Lives and works in BrusselsJustine Cappelle is a female Belgian filmmaker. Her graduation film MAREGRAVE is a portrait of the North Sea, as a collector of human decay. The movie instantly proofed her talented eye for the power of documentary storytelling, not only by capturing reality but by interpreting it and giving it an innovative, humorous and personal dimension ...
García, Dora
°1965 - Valladolid (Spain). Lives and works in Barcelona.Dora García produces drawings, photographs, (sound) installations, performances, videos, and net.art. She is interested in the creation of situations that alter the traditional relationship between artist, artwork and spectator ...
Hänzel & Gretzel
°1966 - Nancy (France).Hänzel & Gretzel was the pseudonym of Daniel Mangeon, video artist, author, maker of music videos, television director and image dresser of all sorts, who died in 2000 of AIDS at the age of 34. Throughout his broad oeuvre the recurring themes are a passion for transgressive pop music and an interest in the absurd ...
The Otolith Group
°2002 - London (United Kingdom).The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar) was founded in 2002. Based in London, their work engages with archival materials, with futurity and with the history of diverse provenances ...
Bernardet, Thomas
°1975 - Fréjus (France).Thomas Bernardet studied photography and video art at the Beaux-arts in Toulouse and Marseille, and as an exchange student at the Kent Institute of Art and Design. His work addresses the conditions in which an image, whether still or moving, is captured and shown. The presence of abstraction in documentary images is also a recurring theme. ...
Foighel Brutmann, Sirah
°1983 - Tel Aviv (Israel). Lives and works in Brussels.Sirah Foighel Brutmann has been working in collaboration with Eitan Efrat for several years. Together, they create works in the audiovisual field. Sirah and Eitan's practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image ...
Destoop, Alexis
°1971 - Kortrijk (Belgium).Alexis Destoop (1971, Kortrijk, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He studied philosophy and obtained a post-graduate in the visual arts from Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing). His multilayered constructions in photography, installation and film examine the component elements of storytelling, the experience of time and the processes of identification and memory ...
Sanders, Mira
°1973 - Uccle (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Mira Sanders (b. 1973) studied Fine Arts at Sint-Lukas Brussels and is lecturer / researcher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels/Ghent. Her oeuvre consists of video works, drawings and installations, in which a constant quest emerges for the places, people and stories they contain ...
Rustamova, Meggy
°1985 - Tbilisi (Georgia). Lives and works in Brussels and Ghent.Meggy Rustamova (1985, Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Brussels and Ghent. She studied at KASK in Ghent where she obtained her MA in fine art and studied meanwhile for a year at the UdK, (Universität der Künste) in Berlin. Most recently she completed a post academic residency program at HISK, Higher Institute for Fine arts in Ghent, Belgium ...
