Richard, Frances
Frances Richard is the author of See Through (Four Way Books, 2003), the chapbooks Anarch (Woodland Editions, 2008) and Shaved Code (Portable Press, 2008); a new volume of poems, The Phonemes, is forthcoming from Les Figues Press in 2011 ...
De Kegel, Jan
°1979 - Ghent (Belgium). Lives and works in Lives in Deux-Acren.Jan de Kegel studied, among others, at the Fine Arts Academy. He points to his direct surroundings as the major inspiration for his drawings, paintings and video work. Confusion and astonishment are recurrent themes in his oeuvre ...
Finnemore, Peter
°1963 - Llanelli, Wales (United Kingdom).Peter Finnemore was one of the first student intakes at the new Fine Art Photography Course set up in 1984 by Thomas Joshua Cooper at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. Here he received a BA Hons. in Fine Art Photography and Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (1984-88). He later studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) where he gained an MFA in Photography (1992-94) ...
Ólafsson, Ólafur
°1973 - Reykjavik (IS). Lives in Rotterdam and Berlin.Ólafur Ólafsson is an Icelandic-born artist currently based in Rotterdam and Berlin. In his collaborations with Libia Castro, he explores the ways life, society and the personal are influenced and constructed by socio-economic and political factors. ...
Blondeel, Michèle
°1945 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Rosee.Video artist, designer of video installations. Realized in 1983 'La dame du Lac-Lettres' a tape of a young girl on her way epistolary life and stay at the Lac Leman in Switzerland recounts. Works together with Boris Lehman. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Suleiman, Elia
°1960 - Nazareth (Israel). Lives and works in New York and Nazareth.Filmmaker Elia Suleiman was born in Nazareth, well after the establishment in 1948 of the state of Israel in historic Palestine. He lived in New York and Paris in self-imposed exile, before returning to the land of his birth to look for his roots. He now commutes between New York and Nazareth. He made his first work, Introduction to the End of an Argument / Speaking for oneself.. ...
Op de Beeck, Hans
°1969 - Turnhout (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Hans Op de Beeck (1969, Turnhout, Belgium) studied at the high school of arts Sint-Lukas in Brussels and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. As a multi-disciplinary artist he makes use of various media, like video, sculptural installations, photography, text, animation and drawings. The medium is carefully selected, always looking for some kind of parallel world, an ageless nowhere ...
Plissart, Marie-Françoise
°1954 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Marie-Françoise Plissart is a photographer and a filmmaker. Former companion of Benoît Peeters, she collaborated with him on several films, books and exhibitions. Marie-Françoise Plissart’s photographs have been in many exhibitions. In 2004 she received the main award at the Architecture Biennale at Venice for her work on Kinshasa ...
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 ...
Desse, Miléna
°1992 - ParisMilena Desse is a French artist based in Brussels. She works in various formats and mediums, such as media-installations, performance, writing, and film. Her artistic research and practice focus on forms of disappearance and revelation, of memorising and forgetting, and on their resonance with storytelling and transmission: looking closer at transformation of stories through time and generations ...
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 ...
Mbakam, Rosine
°1980 - Tonga (CM). Lives and works in Brussels (BE)Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam grew up in Cameroon in a traditional family. She chose cinema at a very early age and trained in Yaoundé thanks to the team of the Italian NGO COE where she was introduced to image, editing and directing in 2000. She collaborated and directed several films for this structure before joining in 2003 Spectrum television where she directed and edited several audiovisual programs ...
Aigner, Florence
°1975 - Luxembourg. Lives and works in Brussels.With an academic background in Refugee Studies, Aigners artistic practice focuses on issues related to memory, belonging and the material culture of people in exile. Through participatory processes, she is creating situations from which narratives and images can emerge. As a filmmaker she collaborated with Laurent Van Lancker on 'Surya' and 'disorient'. ...
