Meessen, Vincent
°1971 - Baltimore (United States). Lives and woks in Brussels.Vincent Meessen's artistic work is woven from a constellation of agents, gestures, and signs that maintain a polemical and sensible relation to the writing of history and the westernization of imaginaries. He decenters and multiplies gazes and perspectives to explore the variety of ways in which colonial modernity has impacted the fabric of contemporary subjectivities ...
Boccara, Tom
°1990 - Brussels (Belgium).Tom Boccara was born on 22 February 1990 in Brussels (Belgium). While following a traditional school curriculum, he actually spent most of his time at the circus school in Brussels, where he developed a passion for the art of the clown, acrobatics and juggling. He had always loved cinema and at the age of 18 he entered the Institut des Art de Diffusion, where he started studying direction ...
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. ...
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 ...
Vicente, Laurent
°1973 - Cannes (France).Laurent Vicente studied graphic and web design in Toulouse, France. In 1998, while working for different computer engineering companies, he co-founded the collective video studio D-Tracks, which created several television programs and experimental documentary films. His work is featured in the collection of the Maison de la Photographie, in Paris ...
Suleiman, Elia
°1960 - Nazareth (Israel). Lives and works in New York and Nazareth.Filmmaker Elia Suleiman was born in Nazareth, well after the establishment in 1948 of the state of Israel in historic Palestine. He lived in New York and Paris in self-imposed exile, before returning to the land of his birth to look for his roots. He now commutes between New York and Nazareth. He made his first work, Introduction to the End of an Argument / Speaking for oneself.. ...
Mbakam, Rosine
°1980 - Tonga (CM). Lives and works in Brussels (BE)Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam grew up in Cameroon in a traditional family. She chose cinema at a very early age and trained in Yaoundé thanks to the team of the Italian NGO COE where she was introduced to image, editing and directing in 2000. She collaborated and directed several films for this structure before joining in 2003 Spectrum television where she directed and edited several audiovisual programs ...
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 ...
Dietvorst, Els
°1964 - Kapellen (Belgium). Lives and works in Duncormick.Els Dietvorst (Belgium) lives and works in Duncormick, Ireland and Brussels, Belgium. She studied at Sint-Lucas in Antwerp and obtained a Master's degree in Fine Art at Sint-Lucas in Brussels. She is an artist with a great interest in communication, collaboration and social conflicts. Themes that are dominant in her work are the outsider, the condition humaine and utopia ...
Augustijnen, Sven
°1970 - Mechelen (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Sven Augustijnen (°1970 in Mechelen) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Hoger Sint-Lukas Instituut in Brussels, and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His work concentrates mainly on the tradition of portraiture and the porous boundaries between fiction and reality, using a hybrid of genres and techniques to disorienting effect ...
Francese, Marianna
°1988 - Salerno (Italy). Lives and works in France.Film Director and Visual Artist ...
The Wooster Group
°1975 - New York (United States)° founded in 1975 in New York The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who, since the mid-seventies, have collaborated on the development and production of theatre and media pieces ...
Castro, Libia
°1970 - Madrid (Spain). Lives in Rotterdam and Berlin.Libia Pérez de Siles de Castro is a Spanish-born artist currently based in Rotterdam and Berlin. In her collaborations with Ólafur Ólafsson, she explores the ways life, society and the personal are influenced and constructed by socio-economic and political factors. ...
Desse, Miléna
°1992 - ParisMilena Desse is a French artist based in Brussels. She works in various formats and mediums, such as media-installations, performance, writing, and film. Her artistic research and practice focus on forms of disappearance and revelation, of memorising and forgetting, and on their resonance with storytelling and transmission: looking closer at transformation of stories through time and generations ...
Peeters, Sam
°1986 - Leuven (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Sam Peeters is a Belgian and British national. He studied medicine for three years before turning to film, his true passion. In 2017, he graduated as a director from the Royal Institute of Theatre, Film and Sound (RITCS) in Brussels, Belgium ...
Vekemans, Emilien
Emilien Vekemans graduated as an actor at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion. Since then he has acted in the theatre and in films; he has participated in various young creations (web series, plays for a young public). Zoufs is the first film where he spent all his time behind the camera. ...
Leech, Adam
°1973 - San Diego (United States). Lives and works in Brussels.Adam Leech is a video artist and painter. In his videos, which are more or less static images, he investigates, through the use of his voice, a number of narratives which play on specific moments of psychological and social unease ...
de La Casinière, Joëlle
°1944 - CasablancaJoëlle de La Casinière (1944, Casablanca, Morocco) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She is continually educating herself in graphic poetry on various kinds of supports (canvas, paper, film, magnetic tape, optical disc). All her videos have in common that they do not research what television transmits, but how it transmits it ...
Jean-Baptiste, Maxime
°1993 - France. Currently based in Brussels and Paris.Maxime Jean-Baptiste is a filmmaker based between Brussels and Paris. He was born and raised in the context of the Guyanese and Antillean diaspora in France, to a French mother and a Guyanese father. His interest as an artist is to dig inside the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting the survival of traumas from the past in the present ...
