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 ...
PERSONA NON GRATA, 2007, Fabio Wuytack © the artist

Wuytack, Fabio

°1981 - Antwerp (Belgium). Lives in Wachtebeke.
Fabio Wuytack (1981, Antwerp, Belgium) lives and works in Wachtebeke, Belgium. He studied at the high school of arts Sint-Lukas in Brussels. From 2002 he specialises mainly in documentaries, often with an autobiographical slant. ...

Dardenne, Jean-Pierre

°1951 - Engis (Belgium)
Dardenne brothers, Belgian filmmakers known for their starkly realistic approach to working-class themes and characters. In addition to directing, Jean-Pierre Dardenne (b. April 21, 1951, Engis, Belgium) and Luc Dardenne (b. March 10, 1954, Awirs, Belgium) also wrote and produced their movies ...

Adepoju, Aisha

°1995 - Mönchengladbach (Germany). Lives and works in Brussels.
Aisha Adepoju studies documentary film at the RITCS in Brussels, where she has lived for several years now, after growing up in the province of West Flanders. She is fascinated by social theme’s. Images from her daily life, photography and illustrations are an important source of inspiration. Adepoju doesn’t necessarily project her ideas on the screen ...

Nys, Sophie

°1974 - Belgium
Sophie Nys lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied visual arts at Sint-Lukas in Gent and obtained her postgraduate degree from the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Nys’ videos are equally impulsive as disarming observations and self-portraits ...

Luyckx, Eddy


Created producing company Tarantula in 1995, together with Donato Rotunno. They forged relationships with fellow producers such as Jo Rouschop in Belgium and Marco Giusti in London and others in Switzerland and Paris. ...
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Van Es, Hubert

°1937 - Antwerp (Belgium).
Hubert Van Es is the pseudonym for Flor Bex. Under this name, the former director of the Antwerp ICC and founder of the M HKA, the museum for contemporary Art in Antwerp, created several videoworks in the 1970', among which "Experiments for auto-communication", which is part of the Argoscollection. Bex was director of the Muhka until 2002. ...

Keller, Dagmar

°1972 - Donaueschingen (Germany).
Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf and at the Academy of Media Art in Cologne. They have been collaborating as an artist duo since 1997, creating extensive photographic cycles, film and video installations. The artist duo has presented its artworks in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and at international festivals and venues ...
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Delfosse, Claude


Born towards the end of the Second World War, Claude "Claudy" Delfosse started singing at the age of 14.In the very beginning, using the name Rocky Tiger, he went from place to place with his guitar, and created his first bands: Dynamic's Boys, Black Riders, Chatons, Trepidos, ..., in which he was the singer or played the guitar ...

Yameogo, Eléonore

°1978 - Ouagadougou (BF). Lives and works in Paris (France)
Originally from Burkina Faso, Eléonore Yameogo, belongs to a generation of female African directors, eager to tackle demanding film subjects. Her career began on the film sets of Ouagadougou, where she acquired field experience, before studying cinema in Burkina Faso, Belgium and France where she currently lives ...

de Pierpont, Philippe

°1955 - Brussels (Belgium).
"Philippe de Pierpont is a genuine jack-of-all-trades. He studied art history in Brussels and he worked as a scriptwriter for comic strips and films (among them L’Héritier, Belgium, 1998) and on various editions (Journal Burundais, Hors la Boxe) ...

Delanghe, Chloë

°1991 - Lives and works in Brussels
Chloë Delanghe (b.1991, Ostend) is a visual artist and filmmaker working predominantly with lens based media. Her work dissects imaginations of intimacy, stitching together stories and images relating to family, class and the camera ...

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. ...
epic (malhame), Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2008 © the artists & producer

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. ...

The Otolith Group

°2002 - London (United Kingdom).
The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun & Anjalika Sagar) was founded in 2002. Based in London, their work engages with archival materials, with futurity and with the history of diverse provenances ...
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Nyst, Danièle

°1942 - Liège (Belgium).
Danièle Nyst studied at the Madrid Academy of Fine Arts and produced music programs for the RTBF (Radio Television Belge-Française). Together with her husband, Jacques Louis Nyst, she made reflective, capricious, fantastic, poetic or purely theoretical videos. The concern of how art ‘functions’ is always central ...
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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 ...

Messiaen, Gerrit

°1964 - Kortrijk (Belgium).
Gerrit Messiaen studied communication, film and political sciences at the University of Ghent and Brussels. After an apprenticeship as screenwriter with the VRT television fiction department, he worked two years as a producer for Frans Buyens and Lydia Chagoll ...

Vanhoutvinck, Valérie

°1968 - Lives and works in Brussels
After studying Script / Editing at Insas, a Bachelor of Arts and Communication Sciences at the University of Liege, Valérie Vanhoutvinck starts to make documentary films. Initiated at various performing arts and communication technologies (Vocals, Clown, Voice, Mediation .. ...