OVERZICHT KUNSTENAARS

Yanisi, Crispin

°1999 - Lives and works in Aalst
Crispin 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 ...

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. ...

Driesen, Mattijs

°1994 - Lives and works in Brussels
Mattijs 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 ...

Locus, Jan

°1968 - Halle (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Involved with social, political and ecological problems, photographer and filmmaker Jan Locus explores themes such as inequality, poverty, conflict, religion, migration and the impact of industry on the environment. Locus’s photographs are void of anecdotes and  hesitate between the format of the documentary and that of reporting ...

André, Marie

°1951 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Narrative fiction and documentation of performing arts are central to Marie André’s work. The Belgium artist often shows her fascination with the eloquence and significance of everyday gestures, particularly those of women that her work magically captures through the postmodern choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. ...

Michels, Bie

°1960 - Kimwenza (Congo). Lives and works in Belgium.
As an artist, Bie Michels positions herself as an observer. Her work focuses on observing, recording, and questioning the representation of the "other".  This "other" remains a construct—both a desire and an impossibility to fully know or possess ...
Repromotion, Jan De Cock, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

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 ...

Decostere, Stefaan

°1955 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Ostend.
Stefaan Decostere studied film direction at the National Film School RITS in Brussels. He is among the handful of truly innovative directors working within television, creating new forms to more complex ideas. In his works he tries to problematize the relation between documentary and fiction by dissolving the boundaries between them. ...

Shin, Jung-Kyun

°1986 - Seoul (Korea).
Shin Jung-Kyun is an emerging artist who often works with video. He has participated in diverse screening events, festivals and projects, and has received several Awards. He has technique, ability of constructing narratives as well as his conceptual attitude as a video artist. He conveys a very personal memory of military service in his work, Universal Story. ...

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) ...

Derlon Cordina, Amélie

°1985 - Marseille (France). Lives and works in Brussels.
Amélie Derlon Cordina studied at the fine arts school in Marseille (France), in a video-cinema-literature studio, from which she graduated with honors in 2009. She then joined the post-academic program of the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon, promotion 2009-2010, headed by Jean-Pierre Rehm (director of the festival FIDMarseille) ...

Vanhoe, Reinaart

°1972 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Jakarta (Indonesia).

Yameogo, Eléonore

°1978 - Ouagadougou (BF). Lives and works in Paris (France)
Originally from Burkina Faso, Eléonore Yameogo, belongs to a generation of female African directors, eager to tackle demanding film subjects. Her career began on the film sets of Ouagadougou, where she acquired field experience, before studying cinema in Burkina Faso, Belgium and France where she currently lives ...

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 ...

Lambrechts, Franciska

°1967 - Ninove (Belgium).
Franciska Lambrechts (1967, Ninove, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels. She studied Video and Film at Sint-Lucas, Brussels. Lambrechts makes films and videos, but she also makes installations in which she combines moving images with other, more ‘handcrafted’ art forms such as drawing, painting and sculpture. This interdisciplinary way of working often has a sour, provocative side. ...

Lederlin, Jacques

°1950 - Grenoble (France).
Jacques Lederlin is a creator of movie soundtracks. In 1999, the film GARAGE OLIMPO, with a soundtrack by Lederlin, was presented in Cannes. Lederlin is also knows as Joeëlle de la Casinière’s long-standing artistic and musical partner. ...

Marécaille, Hubert

°1973 - Nantes (France).
Video artist, actor and musician ...

Dietvorst, Jan

°1953 - Bergen Op Zoom (The Netherlands). Lives in Amsterdam.
Jan Dietvorst (1953, Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands) works with anthropological themes, exploring the making of myth and mythologisation of realities. In his extensive collaborations with Roy Villevoye, he examines these issues in documentary-style video footage shot primarily in parts of former Dutch New Guinea, but refuses to simplify or reduce his subject. ...