Nares, James
°1953 - London (UK). Lives and works in New York.Painter, no wave-musician, performer and filmmaker James Nares was born in London and moved to New York in 1973 where he lives and works. His early video and performance experiments with gestures and objects from the mid 1970s, executed on the rooftop of his Downtown studio, have a particular consistency and elegance. ...
Ghammam, Fairuz
°1980 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Fairuz is fully living the European dream as a visual enthusiast in film and in print. She wonders how to change the world and hopes to find an answer as soon as possible. Luckily she grew up with the knowledge that patience is the key to happiness. She graduated as an experimental filmmaker and works as an editor, cinematographer and director in cinema beyond genres and formats ...
Hauben, Arnout
°1976 - Belgium.Arnout Hauben is a Flemish director of television and journalist. ...
Khani, Fleur
°1986Fleur 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) ...
Côte, Félix
°1993 - Angoulême, FranceBorn in 1993 (27-05) in France, Félix Côte’s work offers ways to appropriate digital and new technologies in order to produce critical uses. Coming from a hybrid background, with degrees in both multimedia engineering and art, he creates pieces that confront the public with their own digital and Internet practices ...
van Tongeren, Eva
°1990 - Amersfoort (The Netherlands)Eva van Tongeren graduated in 2015 at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels. With her film There are no Whales in France (2015, 20’) she won the Wildcard Filmlab of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund. This award allowed her to make her second film Still from afar (2018, 18') ...
Braeckman, Dirk
°1958 - Eeklo (Belgium). Lives and works in Ghent.Dirk Braeckman studied photography and film at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (KASK) in Ghent from 1977 until 1981. From 1998-2002, he was involved as lecturer at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK) in Antwerp and in 2009 he started as guest lecturer at KASK Ghent. Braeckman started his artistic career as a photographer of portraits and self-portraits ...
Vanhoutvinck, Valérie
°1968 - Lives and works in BrusselsAfter studying Script / Editing at Insas, a Bachelor of Arts and Communication Sciences at the University of Liege, Valérie Vanhoutvinck starts to make documentary films. Initiated at various performing arts and communication technologies (Vocals, Clown, Voice, Mediation .. ...
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 ...
Suermondt, Robert
°1961 - Geneva (Switzerland). Lives and works in Brussels and The Hague.Robert Suermondt studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Visuels in Genève and at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In his films, Suermondt demonstrates an explicit attitude towards the exploration of the dramatic potential of anonymous places as well of his own way of looking. The boundaries between the act of looking and the act of filming are never clearly drawn ...
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 ...
Plissart, Marie-Françoise
°1954 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Marie-Françoise Plissart is a photographer and a filmmaker. Former companion of Benoît Peeters, she collaborated with him on several films, books and exhibitions. Marie-Françoise Plissart’s photographs have been in many exhibitions. In 2004 she received the main award at the Architecture Biennale at Venice for her work on Kinshasa ...
Summers, Elaine
°1925 - Perth (Australia). Lives and works in New York.Elaine Summers, one of the original members of the Judson Dance Theater, is one of the pioneers of conceptual dance from the 1960s and 1970s ...
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.. ...
Patterson, Ben
°1934 - Pittsburgh (United States).According to an old biography, Benjamin Patterson was ‘proficient on the double-bass, knowledgeable in music theory and history and acquainted with the crafts of composition and conducting.’ Following a career in symphony orchestras in Canada, he moved to Germany in 1960 ...
Claus, Eva
°1992 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Eva Claus is a filmmaker currently based in Brussels, Belgium. She has made a number of 16mm short films and was educated at the Friedl Kubelka School for independent film in Vienna, Austria. She obtained her MA and BA in Fine Arts at the photography department The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Her films have been screened in various places over the world. ...
Provoost, Ivo
°1974Ivo Provoost studied at La Cambre in Brussels. And until further notice Brussels is his take-off point. He works together with Simona Denicolai. For the description of their work they often refer to the metaphor of the earthworm, which gulps down its context, digests it and casts it back out again in order to survive and be able to move about in its environment ...
Van Imschoot, Myriam
°1969 - Ghent. Lives and works in Brussels.Myriam Van Imschoot is an artist active in performance, film, sound poetry and public space. The voice is one of the main vehicles for her work, which she pairs with an awareness of the politicized potential of listening, the ecology of sound, and the changing regimes of audibility in society ...
