De Boe, Rik
°1964Rik De Boe (°1964) lives and works in Ninove, Belgium. His work often deals, in a melancholic way, with the passing of time, memory and the illusive quality of it. ...
Tuerlinckx, Joëlle
°1958 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Joëlle Tuerlinckx (1958, Brussels, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels. Professor at ERG masterII , Brussels (B) and HEAD, Geneve (CH). With Tuerlinckx’s work the conventional distance between the viewer and the art object fades. Her exhibitions are registrations of moments, proposals for temporary relationships between space, time and the world. ...
Benoot, Sofie
°1985 - Bruges (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Documentary filmmaker Sofie Benoot is currently working on Blue Meridian, the second part of a trilogy on "american water" that started with fronterismo (2007) her graduation film project. In her films, she revisits the history and the stories of abandoned and forgotten places which are important to the united states' foundations and mythology. ...
Martin, Patricia
°1956 - Switzerland"Patricia is the (identical) twin sister of Marie-France 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 ...
Bucquoy, Jan
°1945 - Harelbeke (Belgium).Jan Bucquoy (°1945, Harelbeke, Belgium) lives and works in Belgium. He studied Literature in Grenoble, Philosophy in Ghent, film directing in Brussels (INSAS) and Political Science in Strasbourg. His work - feature films, comic strips, theatre and literature - is mainly satirical in nature, with a slight touch of anarchism. ...
Jashari, Shelbatra
°1981 - Pristina (Kosovo). Lives and works in Brussels."Shelbatra Jashari studied at the Sint Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels. Her work has been shown during the International Film Festival in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Prendsçacourt! (Montréal, Canada) and the Courtisane festival in Ghent (Belgium), where she won the Distribution Award 2004." (Source: argos festival 2004 catalogue) ...
Jean-Baptiste, Maxime
°1993 - France. Currently based in Brussels and Paris.Maxime Jean-Baptiste is a filmmaker based between Brussels and Paris. He was born and raised in the context of the Guyanese and Antillean diaspora in France, to a French mother and a Guyanese father. His interest as an artist is to dig inside the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting the survival of traumas from the past in the present ...
Heiremans, Ronny
°1962 - Heist-op-den-Berg (Belgium). Lives in Brussels.Heiremans' fascination for space, landscape and architecture is incorporated in his videos and installations, in which the notion of ‘displacement’ plays an important role. The collaborative work with his partner Katleen Vermeir examines the dynamic relation between art, architecture and economy, and its mediation in private and public spheres. ...
François, Jan
°1961 - Lives and works in Brussels."After his studies Jan François spent a considerable amount of time working in the domains of archaeology and art restoration and he also made sets for theatrical and opera productions, before focussing from 1995 onwards on several forms of visual arts. He calls his working methods predominantly architectural, in thinking patterns, design and composition ...
Vanrunxt, Marc
°1960"Marc Vanrunxt has been one of the key figures of the Antwerp dance scene since the beginning of the 1980s. He was taught by An Slootmaekers, but soon he began to develop a choreographic style of his own. He has worked as a dancer and choreographer with Jan Fabre, Catherine Massin, Truus Bronkhorst and the groups Fac’t and Nationaal Fonds ...
Touijer, Nadia
°1976 - Tunis (Tunisia).Nadia Touijer (°1976, Tunis, Tunisia) graduated from the National Higher Institute of Performing Arts (INSAS) Belgium. Writer, editor and director, she has worked on dozens of projects as a script writer and editor. She previously directed several short films and documentaries, such as 'The Refuge', 'Crossing' and 'Precipice' and is currently working on her first feature film ...
Dundic, Emmanuel
°1969 - Ougrée (Belgium).Co-founder of IBWT (2002) and of the group Hôtel Jeudi in February 2009 with Florence Marchand, Pablo Garcia Rubio and Selçuk Mutlu. ...
Gobyn, Luc
°1963 - Tielt (Belgium). Lives and works in Knokke and Ghent.Luc Gobyn studied Fine Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, at the (UNAM) Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas San Carlos in Mexico-City, and at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Gobyn is a multi-facetted artist who uses different techniques. Video, photography, and paintings are all used to express his ideas and his memories of Mexico. ...
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 den Broeck, Hans
°1964 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Hans Van den Broeck serves as artistic director of performance group SOIT (Stay Only If Temporary) and is co-founder of Les Ballets C de la B. He has created and toured internationally with several pieces such as "Everyman", "Eat, Eat, Eat", "La Sortie" or "Lac des Singes" ...
Ant Farm
°1968 - San Francisco (United States).Ant Farm was founded as an architecture and design group in 1968 by Doug Michels and Chip Lord, who were soon joined by Curtis Schreier, Hudson Marquez, and W. Douglas Hurr. Other members came and went over the years. The collective, whose base shifted between San Francisco and Houston, saw themselves as part of the cultural underground ...
Quý, Trương Minh
°1990 - Buôn Ma Thuột (Vietnam)Trương Minh Quý (1990) was born in Buôn Ma Thuột, a small city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Quý lives and works here and there in the vibrancy of memories and present moments, his narratives and images, lying between documentary and fiction, personal and impersonal, draw on the landscape of his homeland, childhood memories, and the historical context of Vietnam ...
Murray, Alison
°1970 - Nova Scotia (Canada). Lives and works in London.Alison Murray studied film at the Royal College of Art. Murray’s oeuvre is based upon personal experience and is formally located between experimental cinema, the music video, video art and narrative film ...
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 ...
Garcia Rubio, Pablo
°1963 - Pola de Laviana (Spain). Lives and works in Liège (Belgium).Pablo Garcia Rubio graduated in Visual Arts (painting, decoration) from the Institut des Beaux-arts St-Luc de Liège, Belgium. In 1992, he was rewarded with the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge (Young Painters Award) at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Garcia Rubio is one of three founding members of the collective In Blood We Trust. ...
