OVERVIEW ARTISTS

Lorand, Michel

°1961 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Michel Lorand (1961, Brussels, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Through the construction of movements, dislocations and shifts in perspective he examines the creation of particular interpretational areas among the various interpretational elements that embody his projects: architectural signs, tension between text and images, time passing by, the perception of sound and voice. ...

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 ...

Gobyn, Luc

°1963 - Tielt (Belgium). Lives and works in Knokke and Ghent.
Luc Gobyn studied Fine Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, at the (UNAM) Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas San Carlos in Mexico-City, and at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Gobyn is a multi-facetted artist who uses different techniques. Video, photography, and paintings are all used to express his ideas and his memories of Mexico. ...

Khani, Fleur

°1986
Fleur Khani is a Brussels based artist, performer and writer. As an upcoming theatre maker, she got selected for the Danceweb scholarship in Vienna, Austria. She makes her own theatre shows in which she works on the voice, the monstrification of the body and the use of text on stage. She presented the autofictional work Show don’t Tell at the Bâtard Festival (Brussels, Novembre 2012) ...

Johnson, Esther

- Beverley, Hull (United Kingdom).
Esther Johnson is an artist and filmmaker whose research practice explores documentary portraiture through moving image, audio and photography. She studied for an MA at the Royal College of Art, London, and for a BA (Hons) at Royal Holloway, University of London ...

Cappelle, Justine

°1995 - Lives and works in Brussels
Justine 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 ...

Guillaume, Elise

°1996 - Lives and works in Brussels
Elise Guillaume (b. 1996) is an artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. Her interdisciplinary practice includes film, video, sound, photography and sculpture—sometimes presented as immersive installations. The body is a central element in her work: it becomes a vessel for interpreting the interconnections between the beings that make up our world ...
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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 ...

Weiss, Effi

°1971 - Ramat-Gan (Israel). Lives and works in Brussels.
Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein are an artist duo who works together since 1999. Visual artist, their work shifts between different disciplines such as video, performance and partcipatory projects. Apart from their own artistic projects, they collaborate with other artists as editors, cameramen and effects designers. They facilitate video workshops worldwide, destinated to diverse audiences. ...

Aventurin, Annabelle

°1991 - France. Lives and works in Paris
Annabelle Aventurin est chargée de la conservation et de la diffusion des archives de Med Hondo à Ciné-Archives (fonds audiovisuel du PCF et du mouvement ouvrier). En 2021, elle a coordonné, en collaboration avec le Harvard Film Archive, la restauration de West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979) et de Sarraounia (Med Hondo, 1986) ...

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. ...

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 ...

Terziev, Krassimir

°1969 - Dobritch (Bulgaria). Lives and works in Sofia.
Krassimir Terziev (1969, Dobritch, Bulgaria) received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Sofia University (2012), and is lecturer in the Digital Arts MA Program at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, where he received an MA in Painting (1997). Terziev is one of the leading Bulgarian contemporary artists ...

Saiz, Manuel

°1961 - Logroño, Spain. Lives and works in Madrid
Manuel Saiz is an artist and writer, whose videos, media installations and publications are meta-reflections on the nature of art. His work has been presented at venues including the Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil; the Sculpture Biennial in Shenzhen, the ICA in London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid ...

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 ...

Torfs, Ana

°1963 - Mortsel (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Since the early 1990s, Belgian visual artist Ana Torfs has been composing a unique, visually striking oeuvre, which addresses fundamental questions of representation and its narrative structures. The relation or tension between text and image plays a central role in her work, and with it all the related processes of visualization, interpretation, perception, manipulation and translation ...