de la Garenne, Christine
°1973 - Karlsruhe (Germany). Lives & works in Berlin.Christine de la Garenne grew up in a small village near the border with France. While studying Media Arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe and she also studied German studies at the university. She now lives and works in Berlin and is part of the elite of young Berlin artists, whose works are in great demand all over the world ...
Van der Auwera, Emmanuel
°1982 - Brussels (Belgium).Emmanuel Van der Auwera (b. 1982, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium ...
Manzone, Stéphane
°1970 - Monaco"Stéphane Manzone was born in Monaco and he lives in Brussels. After working as a script writer for film and TV, he now makes short and long fiction films, documentaries and experimental work. His work was shown, among others, at the Film festival in Milan, Festival International du Documentaire in Marseille and the Mediawave festival in Gyor (Hungary)." (argos festival 2005 catalogue) ...
Saiz, Manuel
°1961 - Logroño, Spain. Lives and works in MadridManuel 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 ...
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. ...
Martin, Marie-France
°1956 - Switzerland"Marie-France Martin is the (identical) twin sister of Patricia Martin. They grew up in Switzerland and after their Plastic Arts studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris they ended up in Brussels. Their inevitable duality, beloved as well as cursed, embraces every aspect of their work ...
Blume, Félix
°1984 - Narbonne (Aude, France). Currently lives and works between Mexico and France.Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. His work is focused on listening, it invites us to live sonic experiences that enable a different perception of the surrounding. He uses sound as a basic material in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations ...
Convert, Jean-Philippe
°1972 - Belgium."After his studies in Philosophy at the University of Toulouse, Jean-Philippe Convert concentrated on the making of video films and performances after his own texts. In his work he mainly tries to explore the possibilities of oral and musical expression, in relationship to text and image. He defines his video work as "objets-films", in which the visual and the auditive converge ...
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 .. ...
Nedreaas, Trine Lise
°1972 - Bergen (Norway). Lives and works in London.Trine Lise Nedreaas (°1972, Bergen, Norway) studied art history philosophy at the University of Bergen (Norway) before moving to London where she started her art education at Central Saint Martin College of Art and Design (1994-95) and later at The Slade School of Fine Art (1995–99) ...
Dekegel, Olivier
°1970Olivier Dekegel (1970, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He studied cinema at INSAS Brussels. He worked for several years as assistant, dramatist, light and sound designer for different modern dance and theatre companies. All his films are made on Super 8 or 16mm, and always oscillate between documentary and experimental approach. ...
Paesmans, Dirk
°1965 - Brussels (Belgium).Dirk Paesmans studied plastic arts together with Koen Theys at St. Lukas in Brussels, and sculpting at the Academy in Ghent. In 1981, only just about getting on twenty, they began to make videos together under the name of V-side. Their first work Radar (1981) was, as they put it, "a flood of images we caught on our sensory radar" ...
Dementieva, Alexandra
°1960 - Moscou (Russia). Lives and works in Brussels.Alexandra Dementieva’s main interests focus on social psychology and perception and their application in multimedia interactive installations. Her videowork integrates different elements including behavioral psychology, developing narrative using a 'subjective camera' ...
Garabedian, Mekhitar
°1977 - Aleppo (Syria). Lives and works in Ghent (Belgium).Mekhitar Garabedian was born into the Armenian diaspora, and his works explore some of the difficulties involved in articulating his identity. Having migrated from Lebanon to Belgium as a young child, his videos and installations illustrate the fragility and endurance of both individual and collective identities, as well as the enduring impact of the Armenian genocide ...
De Volder, Eric
°1946 - Sint-Niklaas (Belgium).De Volder’s career started on the musical scene when he became a drummer for the boogieband Papadock’s. Later he founded Parisiana, a musical theatre group. In the eighties he joined the street theatre group Radeis and in 1987 he created the non-profit organization KIM (Kunst Is Modder). Since 1992 he was the artistic leader of the theater company TG Ceremonia in Ghent ...
François, Michel
°1956 - Sint-Truiden (Belgium). Lives in Brussels.Michel François is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses all sorts of materials and methods, combining man-made and natural objects, and photographs as well as installations. His aim is to appeal to all the senses. François’ photographs and videos are about ‘living’, and how to give form to that ‘living’ ...
Sarah & Charles
Collaborating since 2004, Belgian artists Sarah & Charles draw inspiration from the world of entertainment and more specifically, its invisible structures. Subjects and genres such as make-believe, simulacrum, the story within the story, cinematic experience, the suspension of disbelief and music are playfully and thoughtfully reviewed in their research and practice ...
Morris, Wendy
°1960 - Walvis Bay (Namibia). Lives in Deerlijk (Belgium).Wendy Morris is a Belgian-based visual artist and animated filmmaker. Her work explores fictional, documentary and autobiographical genres and is frequently concerned with colonial migrations and histories of religious dissent. A South African artist, born in Namibia, the focus of her work has been on the two-way traffic between Europe and Southern Africa ...
