KUNSTENAARS

Raverdy, Messaline

°1986 - Seclin (FR), Lives and works in Brussels.
She lives and works in Brussels. After studies in philosophy, literature and visual arts in Paris and Brussels, Messaline plays with different materials of images, video, 16mm, super8… This movie is her first "achieved" project. ...

Aubier, Stéphane

°1964 - Verviers (Belgium).
"Stéphane Aubier studied together with Vincent Patar visual arts at La Cambre, where they had previously been engaged in animation sequences, and they spent some time in Disney animation-training in the US ...

Blanckaert, Eric

Meyer, Eva

°1950 - Freiburg (Germany). Lives and works in Berlin.
Eva Meyer (1950, Freiburg, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied philosophy, art history, archaeology and literature in Freiburg and Berlin. For her essay-related video work, Meyer invariably works together with her partner and artist Eran Schaerf. Searching for a precarious balance between fragmentation and montage, their videos are seldom designed in a linear way ...

Visser, Barbara

°1966 - Haarlem (The Netherlands).
In the majority of projects, executed in photography, film, print, text or performance, Barbara Visser has been occupied with the uncertain relationship between registration and dramatization, plays with notions of original and copy, and questions the way history and memory are being shaped by both the individual and society ...

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 ...

Bennett, Justin

°1964 - Nuneaton, Warwickshire (United Kingdom).
Justin Bennett’s work covers a wide range of genres, from (audio-)visual arts to music. Central to his thinking and work are a process-orientated approach and an interest in the elasticity of the concept of ‘space’. Bennett produces (reworked) field recordings, drawings, performances, installations, photographs, videos and essays ...

Jonas, Joan

°1936 - New York (United States).
Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She began her career in New York City as a sculptor ...

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. ...

Podgoršek, Sašo

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. ...

Denicolai, Simona

°1972
"Simona Denicolai studied at BRERA in Milan, but until further notice Brussels is her take-off point. She works together with Ivo Provoost. 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 ...

De Hooghe, Dirk

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 ...

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. ...

Yun Tien

°1983
Yun Tien (1983) is a Taiwanese video artist who moved to Brussels in 2014. She works primarily in the fields of photography, film and video-installation. Her video works often focus on the subject of crossing borders. Starting from her own experience, she then looks for similarities with other people’s experiences ...

Martin, Marie-France

°1956 - Switzerland
"Marie-France Martin is the (identical) twin sister of Patricia 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 ...

Florizoone, Jan

°1959 - Belgium
Jan Florizoone is a writer, editor and documentary filmmaker for Argos film, Brussels. His articles have appeared in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard. Currently he is a teacher at the School of Arts KASK (Koninklijk Conservatorium) in Ghent. ...

Olender, Joachim

°1980 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works between Paris and Brussels.
Joachim Olender who studied law and film in Brussels is interested in "stories with holes". He moves between cinema, directing and writing, while being concerned by the manufacturing of a fictional archive. In 2006 he started a PhD in Paris on ‘the flaw in the narrative’ (EHESS) and wrote his first screenplay adapted from the novel ‘Les choses’ (The Things) of Georges Perec ...

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. ...