Martin, Isabelle
°1978 - Belgium"Apart from shorts in 16mm film format Isabelle Martin also makes audio work, portraying various people through her written texts. She studied at the ERG and the INSAS in Brussels. Her work has been shown, among others, during the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, the Festival International du Film Indépendant (Brussels) and the Festival International du film de femmes in Dortmund ...
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 ...
Kluge, Alexander
°1932 - Halberstadt (Germany). Lives and works in München.In the early 1960s, Alexander Kluge was one of the co-founders of the 'Junger Deutscher Film' or New German Cinema. Since then, he has made numerous films and television programmes, and written fiction as well as cultural and social critiques. In his films and television programmes, Alexander Kluge reveals a strong belief in the critical power of a playful gaze. ...
Schuurbiers, Alex
°1990 - Lives and works in AntwerpenAlex Schuurbiers (she/her, NL, 1990) is a filmmaker and photographer living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She is also the founding member of Ursula, a female-led collective of artists working with the moving image. Her research focusesses on hybrid realities and physical carriers of time, dealing with memory and its representation in film based works ...
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 Cock, Jan
°1976 - Etterbeek (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Jan De Cock is renowned for his sculptural installations, which the artist sees as monuments to Modernism. His monumental installations mix often plywood sculptural modules that recall twentieth-century abstraction – formally referring to the modernist and constructivist idioms – with color and black-and-white photographs, video- and film works ...
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 ...
Borenstein, Amir
°1969 - Haifa (Israel). Lives and works in Brussels.Amir Borenstein and Effi Weiss are an artist duo who works together since 1999. Visual artist, their work shifts between different disciplines such as video, performance and partcipatory projects. Apart from their own artistic projects, they collaborate with other artists as editors, cameramen and effects designers. They facilitate video workshops worldwide, destinated to diverse audiences. ...
Peres dos Santos, Miguel
°1976 - Lisbon (Portugal). Lives and works in The Hague.Miguel Peres Dos Santos (°1976, Lisbon, Portugal) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By emphasising aesthetics, he reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history. ...
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. ...
Oki, Dan
°1965 - Zadar (Croatia).Slobodan Jokić, artist name Dan Oki. Filmmaker and visual artist, professor of film and electronic arts at the University of Split and Zagreb. Belonging to the generation of artists who in 1990s in Amsterdam worked with film and photography, made cinematographic databases and interactive video. Made four independent feature films: Oxygen4, The Performance, The Dark and The Farewell ...
Vostell, Wolf
°1932 - Leverkusen (Germany).Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the early adopters of Video art, Environment, Installation, Happening and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete. ...
Kobland, Ken
°1946 - The Bronx, New York (United States). Lives and works in New York.Ken Kobland is an independent film and video artist, collaborating at times with performing artists such as Philip Glass or The Wooster Group. He retains a critical distance and poetical tension that seem to be lacking in a media-dominated society. As spectators, we are invited to look and interpret actively, rather than to passively identify with emotions suggested by a continued storyline ...
Dinçel, Nazli
°1989 - Ankara (Turkey). Currently lives and works in the United States.Nazli Dinçel’s hand-made work reflects on experiences of disruption. She records the body in context with arousal, immigration, dislocation and desire with the film object: its texture, color and the tractable emulsion of the 16mm material. Her use of text as image, language and sound imitates the failure of memory and her own displacement within a western society ...
Géronnez, Alain
°1951 - Brussels (Belgium)."Alain Géronnez studied painting at the Sint-Lukas institute in Brussels. Currently he teaches graphic techniques at the ERG (École de Recherche Graphique-Bruxelles). His own visual, conceptual and multimedia work, however, is not linked to whatever technique ...
Terziev, Krassimir
°1969 - Dobritch (Bulgaria). Lives and works in Sofia.Krassimir Terziev (1969, Dobritch, Bulgaria) received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Sofia University (2012), and is lecturer in the Digital Arts MA Program at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, where he received an MA in Painting (1997). Terziev is one of the leading Bulgarian contemporary artists ...
Guillard, Marion
°1980 - Nancy. Lives and works in BrusselsMarion Guillard grew up in Paris, but studied at the agricultural school in Burgundy. The productivist approach to the living world was so violent that she moved closer to images and took a University Diploma in “wildlife cinema” ...
Baes, Pascal
°1959 - Nice (France). Lives and works in Brussels.Pascal Baes experiments with the use of the stop-motion technique and specializes in image-by-image animation. He has also produced a range of "dance films". where dancing itself is released from its limitations, which are inherent to the stage, and recorded as a paradoxical experience. Thematically, as well as philosophically, he refers to the cinematic avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Palestine, Charlemagne
°1945 - Brooklyn, New York (United States).Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium). ...
