ARTISTS

Sarah & Charles

Collaborating since 2004, Belgian artists Sarah & Charles draw inspiration from the world of entertainment and more specifically, its invisible structures. Subjects and genres such as make-believe, simulacrum, the story within the story, cinematic experience, the suspension of disbelief and music are playfully and thoughtfully reviewed in their research and practice ...

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 ...

Meltzer, Julia

°1968 - Hollywood, California (USA). Lives in Los Angeles.
Julia Meltzer her work takes up subjects ranging from the bureaucracy of secrecy to contemporary politics in the Middle East. She frequently collaborates with Los Angeles based artist David Thorne to produce installations, photographs, and videos that raise questions about the uses of documents and their social, political, and affective impact. ...

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 ...

Geenen, Pieter

°1979 - Hasselt (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Pieter Geenen’s work consists of audiovisual impressions of physical space, in relation to time and duration. The landscapes, public spaces and fragments of ordinary life he films, seem to represent space, but only as a reference, a mere abstraction. Geenen searches for patterns and structures: human presence becomes small and anonymous ...

Martirosyan, Nora

°1973 - Yerevan (Armenia). Lives and works in Montpellier.
Nora Martirosyan (1973, Armenia) lives and works in France, Italy, and Armenia. After her studies in Amsterdam at the Gerriet Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands she continued with the residency programs in Le Fresnoy (France) and Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) ...

Salpistis, Vassilis

°1975 - Thessaloniki (Greece). Lives and works in Paris
Vassilis Salpistis’s work takes its point departure in an approach to painting that boasts a great formal and technical diversity. Furthermore, the artist reaches beyond the strict framework of the medium and prefers to integrate other art forms, such as video and printed images, thereby extending the concept of the image ...

van Dam, George

°1964 - Windhoek, Khomas (Namibia).
The Namibian-born violinist George Alexander van Dam has been a committed performer of contemporary music since the early stages of his career ...

Van Snick, Philippe

°1946 - Ghent (Belgium).
The work of Philippe Van Snick is characterized by extremely simple forms and by the constant use of the same colours in combination with geometric shapes. Van Snick considers a painting to be much more than just a painted surface. The forms, objects and colours he uses never stand wholly alone ...

Smits, George

°1944 - Antwerp (Belgium).
George Smits was a multi-faceted musician and visual artist.  He was a fixture of Antwerp's underground art scene starting in the mid-1960s, and preferably describing himself as a beatnik ...

Provost, Nicolas

°1969 - Ronse (Belgium). Lives and works in Antwerp.
Nicolas Provost’s oeuvre, shown with notable success at international film festivals in recent years, has been described as a working-off of the filmic codes of narrative cinema ...

Vogel, Simon

Vanhee, Sarah

°1980 - Oostende (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Sarah Vanhee lives and works in Brussels. Her artistic practice is linked to performance, visual arts and literature, and unfolds in vairous environments. She creates temporary, porous, yet clearly defined spaces, in which she analyzes existing realities and confront those with an absurd, utopistic or poetic proposal ...

Stern, Eddo

°1972 - Tel Aviv (Israel). Lives in Los Angeles.
Eddo Stern lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied visual arts, new media and computer sciences at the University of California (Santa Cruz) and at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, USA). At the Design Media Arts Department of UCLA he teaches courses on game design and culture; computer game development; and physical computing in an art context ...

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. ...

Kempenaers, Jan

°1968 - Heist-Op-Den-Berg (Belgium). Lives in Antwerp and works in Ghent.
Jan Kempenaers studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium) and the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (The Netherlands). He has been affiliated with the School of Arts Ghent since 2006. Since the beginning of the 90s Kempenaers has been photographing urban & natural landscapes and in 2012 he completed a PhD in the visual arts ...

Beyens, Bert

°1956 - Geel (Belgium).
Bert Beyens (°1956) is a Belgian filmmaker, known for Jan Cox A Painter's Odyssey (written and directed with Pierre De Clercq, Belgium The Netherlands 1988), and A la Rencontre de Marcel Hanoun (France 1994). He teaches writing and directing at RITCS School of Arts Erasmus University College since 1994 and was the head of the school from 2001 until 2013 (three 4-year mandates) ...

Villevoye, Roy

°1960 - Maastricht (The Netherlands). Lives and works in Amsterdam.
In his work Roy Villevoye explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the legacy of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre, by freeing himself from a number of characteristic conventions. ...

Foighel Brutmann, Sirah

°1983 - Tel Aviv (Israel). Lives and works in Brussels.
Sirah Foighel Brutmann has been working in collaboration with Eitan Efrat for several years. Together, they create works in the audiovisual field. Sirah and Eitan's practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image ...

Nouzha, Isabelle

°1976 - Strasbourg (France). Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).
Isabelle Nouzha graduated from LUCA School of Arts Brussels, Belgium. In her work she combines film, video, and photography. Violent elements often dictate her scenarios so as breaking points, traces of historical violence, marginalized social groups. ...