Courtois, Pierre
°1950 - La Roche en Ardenne (Belgium).Pierre Courtois is a multifaceted Belgian artist, whose areas of expertise include painting, sculpture, video art, and installations known as ‘Land Art’, where his creations are put in a landscape, indoors or outdoors, in an attempt to create a dialogue. His workshop is in the old Ferme de Cochaute, where he also offers lodgings and organises concerts. ...
Trouvé, Rudy
Rudy has a love for cinema. In art collegue he studied animation, which is obviously a form of cinema, but he has been seen dozens of times with a video or super8 camera around Antwerp, just shooting footage. He likes to to keep an 'archive' of filmed material, but so far, only one 'finished' product has emerged from his urge to film ...
Schwindt, Grace
°1979 - Offenbach (Germany). Lives and works in London.Grace Schwindt, born 1979, is a German artist based in London. Her practice involves film, live performance, sculpture and drawing. Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp represents her. Her work has been featured in solo presentation at White Columns Gallery in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, at South London Gallery, among others ...
De Volder, Geoffroy
°1964 - Brussels (Belgium).De Volder started his studies in painting at La Cambre in 1985. The teachers who influenced his style most were Pasternak, Guy Bauclair and Jacques Sojcher. Initially he wanted to become a graphic designer, and create sleeves for music records, but due to bad grades and after visiting an exhibition of Giacometti he switched to painting instead ...
The Atlas Group
°1999The Atlas Group is a project established in Beirut in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group locates, preserves, studies and produces audio, visual, literary and other documents that shed light on this history. The documents are preserved in The Atlas Group Archive which is located in Beirut and New York ...
Lizène, Jacques
°1946 - Liège (Belgium).Jacques Lizène was among the most productive members of the Liège artists’ collective ‘Le Cercle d’Art prospectif’ (CAP), who, from 1972 onwards, developed a considerable body of work in the vein of so-called ‘relational’ art. Their political and sociological standpoints are reminiscent of Fluxus, even though Lizène prefers to designate his own work as “Non-Fluxus ...
Jerez, Maria
°1978 - Madrid (Spain).Maria Jerez mainly works in: Europe She officially lives in: Madrid Her work travels in between: choreography, cinema and visual arts She is interested in: the unspeakable and the indifference She produces the works: “El Caso del Espectador” (2004), “This Side Up” (2006), “The Perfect Alibi” (2011-12), “ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum ba-boop-be-doop!” (2014), “Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics” (201 ...
Paik, Nam June
°1932 - Seoul, SOUTH KOREANam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He was married to the video artist Shigeko Kubota in 1965. ...
Vloors, Bo
°1993 - Antwerp (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Bo Vloors (1993, Antwerp), is currently living and working in Brussels. In 2016 she graduated from LUCA School of Arts as a visual artist within the photographic field. She was able to spend her final year at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna to obtain new knowledge and to refine her artistic practice. She is currently finishing her master in film at LUCA School of Arts ...
Bijl, Guillaume
°1946 - Antwerp (Belgium).Guillaume Bijl's work is about questionning the ordinary, the social reality and what supposedly separates it from “art”. Taking everyday, common elements and placing them in an unsual context, he forces the spectator to rethink his relation to reality. ...
Luna, Bigas
°1946 - Barcelona (Spain)A varied career as a filmmaker, painter and designer makes the Catalan artist Bigas Luna a very singular and interdisciplinary artist. As a filmmaker he gained critical acclaim with his Trilogía Ibérica (1992-1994). Orígenes-Courbet (2004) can be considered as a fine example of his frequent playful and experimental excursions into visual art. ...
Sanders, Angela
°1974 - Zürich (Switzerland).Visual anthropologist and videomaker. The main focus of Sanders research is transnational migration and mobility, processes of globalization and their impacts on the living and working conditions of human beings. Her academic field research is often accompanied by reflexive ethnographic video essays. ...
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) ...
Shaham, Avi
°1953 - Tel Aviv (Israel).Avi Shaham, initially trained as a sculptor, works in installation, photography and video. His work dwells on man’s subservience to technology and machines. For the installations You are most welcome, Master Lucas (both 2002) and Ancient Machine (2003) he collaborated with Israeli artist Uri Tzaig. ...
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 ...
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 ...
