Case, Charley
°1969 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels and Spain.Charley Case has introduced words in a playful, ironical way in photographs and film. He travels intensively, which is a source of inspiration and also provides ideal conditions for working. To Case, fellow artists Dumas, Orozco, Basquiat and Kapoor are much more than 'influences' in the art historical sense. Rather, they appear to be genuine "compagnons de route" on his road to the 'symbolic' ...
Driesen, Mattijs
°1994 - Lives and works in BrusselsMattijs Driesen (1994) is a filmmaker and writer based in Brussels. His latest short film The Actricity Machines (2023) had its world premiere at Film Fest Ghent. He is in the process of finishing his Ph.D. at LUCA School of Arts, where he researches the connections between radical pedagogy and cinematic aesthetics ...
Smiljanic, Vanja
°1986 - BelgradeVanja Smiljanić (Belgrade, 1986) is a visual and performance artist living and working between Lisbon and Cologne. She concluded the post-master in Artistic research at A.pass, Brussels (2015), MFA at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Arnhem (2012), and Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (2019) and got a degree in Fine Arts at the Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa (2009) ...
Quý, Trương Minh
°1990 - Buôn Ma Thuột (Vietnam)Trương Minh Quý (1990) was born in Buôn Ma Thuột, a small city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Quý lives and works here and there in the vibrancy of memories and present moments, his narratives and images, lying between documentary and fiction, personal and impersonal, draw on the landscape of his homeland, childhood memories, and the historical context of Vietnam ...
Baes, Pascal
°1959 - Nice (France). Lives and works in Brussels.Pascal Baes experiments with the use of the stop-motion technique and specializes in image-by-image animation. He has also produced a range of "dance films". where dancing itself is released from its limitations, which are inherent to the stage, and recorded as a paradoxical experience. Thematically, as well as philosophically, he refers to the cinematic avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Vogel, François
°1971 - Meudon (France).Francois Vogel was born and raised in Meudon, a Paris suburb. He began scientific studies while practicing drawing, painting and animation. After art studies, he travels to the pacific to do his military service as a drummer in New Caledonia ...
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. ...
Coorevits, Jana
Jana Coorevits’ artistic practice is situated at the intersection of experimental film, photography, and visual art. She delves into issues surrounding femininity, vulnerability, and trauma. In recent years, her focus has been on finding ways to speak about personal and collective experiences of sexual violence through artistic work ...
Tarantino, Maria
°1972 - Milan (Italy). Lives and works in Belgium.Maria Tarantino (born in Milan in 1972) studied philosophy in Scotland and Italy before settling down in Belgium, where she gradually moves from philosophy to journalism. In Brussels she works for the press, radio and television for several years ...
Markov, Alexander
°1973 - Leningrad (Russia).Alexander Markov is a documentary filmmaker, cinema historian and artist. He directs films in Saint Petersburg and abroad, teaches documentary directing at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television, and works as an independent curator. His video installations were shown at Sharjah Biennial, Calvert 22, Iwalewahaus, Africa.Cont, CEU, among many others ...
De Bemels, Antonin
°1975 - Brussels (Belgium).Antonin De Bemels works with diverse media, including drawing, electronic music, photography, and writing. His super-8 films are shot frame by frame. The camera records automatically, its shutter-speed increasing or decreasing according to the levels of light it captures ...
Provost, Nicolas
°1969 - Ronse (Belgium). Lives and works in Antwerp.Nicolas Provost’s oeuvre, shown with notable success at international film festivals in recent years, has been described as a working-off of the filmic codes of narrative cinema ...
Vanhee, Sarah
°1980 - Oostende (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Sarah Vanhee lives and works in Brussels. Her artistic practice is linked to performance, visual arts and literature, and unfolds in vairous environments. She creates temporary, porous, yet clearly defined spaces, in which she analyzes existing realities and confront those with an absurd, utopistic or poetic proposal ...
Geyer, Andrea
°1971 - Freiburg (Germany). Lives and works in New York.After she studied Photography and Film Design at the Fachhochschule in Bielefeld, Andrea Geyer went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Geyer uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based installations that are intended to intervene in diverse mechanisms of verbal and visual control and regulation ...
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. ...
Vanagt, Sarah
°1976 - Bruges (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Sarah Vanagt makes documentaries, video installations and photos, in which she combines her interest for history with her interest for (the origins of) cinema. Her graduation film AFTER YEARS OF WALKING (2003) looks at the rewriting of Rwandan history after the genocide of 1994 ...
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. ...
