ARTISTS

Reyns, Ailien

°1984 - Ronse (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Aïlien Reyns studied history and film at Sint-Lukas Brussels. She creates filmic portraits and audiovisual installations. Her films are always the result of an extended interactive dialogue and research process with the subjects of her film projects ...

Kondek, Christopher

°1962 - Boston (United States).

Patterson, Ben

°1934 - Pittsburgh (United States).
According to an old biography, Benjamin Patterson was ‘proficient on the double-bass, knowledgeable in music theory and history and acquainted with the crafts of composition and conducting.’ Following a career in symphony orchestras in Canada, he moved to Germany in 1960 ...

Theys, Koen

°1963 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Koen Theys studied at the St. Lucas Academy in Brussels. Throughout his practice as a video artist he develops a language that consists in adding emotional, intuitive or intellectual connotations to elementary images, which are continuously combined in different ways so that a narrative structure arises. ...

Cristea, Alina

°1989 - Romania
Alina Cristea is a Romanian artist working with photography and film, currently living and working in Brussels and in Bucharest. After having been living abroad in different cities in Belgium and in the Czech Republic, where she studied Photography and Cultural Studies, she became interested in her identity as a Romanian living in Europe and in her hometown, Bucharest ...

Francese, Marianna

°1988 - Salerno (Italy). Lives and works in France.
Film Director and Visual Artist ...

Secchi, Shedar

Rubio, Edurne

°1974 - Burgos (Spain).
Edurne Rubio (Spain, 1974) is a visual artist working in the fields of exhibitions, performance, cinema and architecture. Very often, she makes in-situ projects in public space. Her research has always been related to the individual or collective perception of time and space ...

Braeckman, Dirk

°1958 - Eeklo (Belgium). Lives and works in Ghent.
Dirk Braeckman studied photography and film at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (KASK) in Ghent from 1977 until 1981. From 1998-2002, he was involved as lecturer at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK) in Antwerp and in 2009 he started as guest lecturer at KASK Ghent. Braeckman started his artistic career as a photographer of portraits and self-portraits ...

Stevens, Anton

De Meuleneire, Martijn

°1998 - Lives and works in Brussels
He concluded his bachelor photography in 2021 and his master visual arts in 2024 at KASK, School of Arts, Ghent. Having participated in numerous actions of civil disobedience, Martijn De Meuleneire’s work originates out of his experiences as an activist. For his artistic practice, De Meuleneire uses a variety of media, ranging from the classic photographic image to multimedia installations. ...

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" ...

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. ...

Markov, Alexander

°1973 - Leningrad (Russia).
Alexander Markov is a documentary filmmaker, cinema historian and artist. He directs films in Saint Petersburg and abroad, teaches documentary directing at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television, and works as an independent curator. His video installations were shown at Sharjah Biennial, Calvert 22, Iwalewahaus, Africa.Cont, CEU, among many others ...

Thorne, David

°1960 - Boston, Massachusetts (United States). Lives and works in Los Angeles.
David Thorne is a politically engaged artist. He frequently collaborates with Los Angeles based artist Julia Meltzer to produce installations, photographs, and videos that raise questions about the uses of documents and their social, political, and affective impact. ...

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. ...

Lehman, Boris

°1944 - Lausanne (Switzerland). Lives and works in Brussels.
Boris Lehman is a giant in the world of Belgian cinema. Since the 1960s, his work as film-maker and critic, as well as his collaborative work with his friends and colleagues, has explored his own life, and significant people and places, choosing to write, produce, film and sometimes act in his films himself. Through these deeply personal works, he reveals an element of ourselves to us. ...

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. ...

De Gruyter, Jos

°1965 - Geel (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Jos De Gruyter studied at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Fine Arts Department, in the Netherlands. Best known for his collaborations with Harald Thys ...

Aventurin, Annabelle

°1991 - France. Lives and works in Paris
Annabelle Aventurin est chargée de la conservation et de la diffusion des archives de Med Hondo à Ciné-Archives (fonds audiovisuel du PCF et du mouvement ouvrier). En 2021, elle a coordonné, en collaboration avec le Harvard Film Archive, la restauration de West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979) et de Sarraounia (Med Hondo, 1986) ...