Silver, Shelly
°1957 - Brooklyn, New York (United States).Shelly Silver (1957, New-York ) attended Cornell University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Intellectual History, and a B.F.A. in Mixed Media and subsequently attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program ...
Marchetti, Walter
°1931 - Canosa di Puglia (Italy).Walter Marchetti was an Italian composer who adopted John Cage's dadaist aesthetic and pioneered interactive and concrete music. In 1964 he formed the ZAJ group (a sort of European version of Fluxus) with Juan Hidalgo in Madrid. ...
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. ...
Sliaupa, Paulius
°1990 - Vilnius (Lithuania). Lives and works in Vilnius.Paulius holds a BA in painting and an MFA in contemporary sculpture in Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, an MFA in media arts in KASK, a laureate degree at HISK postgraduate residency programme in Ghent, Belgium. In 2022 he won the grand prize of ArtContest, Belgium ...
Kastner, Katharina
°1979 - GrazKatharina Kastner is an Austrian filmmaker working in Brussels and Vienna. Her experimental short film about a museum of contemporary art in Brussels, VILLA EMPAIN, builds upon concepts of psychogeography and draws a mental map of a space as it goes through time. ...
Meert, Marc
°1954"Marc Meert lives and works in Brussels. He studied, among others at the ERG (’Ecole de Recherches Graphiques’). He is one of the active members of PTTL (Plus-Tôt/ Te-Laat), a collective organising video workshops in the Brussels’ community of Sint-Joost-ten-Node, which makes use of audiovisual material to influence the policymaking process of local politics ...
Colomer, Jordi
°1962 - Barcelona (Spain). Lives in Paris and Barcelona.Colomer was trained as an architect and art historian, and his work has always been informed by a sensibility for architecture. He studies the way in which the modern city influences human behaviour. He explores the ubiquity and drawbacks of modernism in the urban environment. ...
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 ...
Van Damme, Philippe
°1965 - Brussels (Belgium).Philippe Van Damme’s main preoccupation seems to be the city, its construction and the notion of time reflected in it. In Rue de l’Avenir he zooms in on a hundred year old demolished street in Brussels. For Der Landmesser am Japanischen Palais he went to Dresden and discovered (what did you expect?) a completely different city ...
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 ...
Bitton, Simone
°1955 - Rabat (Morocco).Simone Bitton was born in Morocco in 1955. She lived in Rabat and Jerusalem, and then in Paris, where she has been based since her studies at the French Institute for Cinema Studies (IDHEC). She holds both Israeli and French citizenship, and defines herself as an Arab Jew who likes neither walls nor borders. She has been making documentary films since 1981. ...
General Idea
°1968 - Toronto (Canada).In 1968, AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal founded the Toronto based artists’ group General Idea. Their subjects came from mass culture’s consumerism, celebrity, glamour, and from the art world. Their artworks participated in mass culture, rather than oppose or work outside it ...
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. ...
van. Dienderen, An
°1971 - Brasschaat, Antwerp (Belgium). Lives and works in Ghent.An van. Dienderen (1971, Braaschaat, Belgium) is a filmmaker and obtained a PhD in Comparative Cultural Sciences. She made several (inter)nationally awarded films, published in (inter)national journals and directs a small non profit art production company (Elektrischer Schnellseher) ...
Makengo, Nelson
°1990 - Lives and works in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)Nelson Makengo has a degree from the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Kinshasa (2015) and has been trained at La Femis in Paris, France. Fundamentaly, Makengo is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker ...
Buchet, Jean-Marie
°1938 - Jemappes (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Jean-Marie Buchet lives and works in Brussels, where he studied at La Cambre. He wrote and produced his first film in 1961 and built out an extensive body of work, consisting mainly of fiction films with a slight fantastic and surreal side. At the same time he works with other filmmakers, such as Boris Lehman, Roland Lethem and Patrick Van Antwerpen ...
Mulliez, Bernard
°1970Bernard Mulliez (1970, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He studied sculpture at La Chambre, Brussels. Since 1995 Mulliez has been making films, often with a focus on admiration and curiosity for social relations. ...
Bonnemaison, Michel
°1923 - Paris (France).Michel Bonnemaison referred to himself as a ‘professional European’. His work touched on such diverse subjects as cinema, media rhetoric, overland and sea trade and transport, travel overseas and, at a later stage, he was increasingly interested in theology. ...
