Dunoyer, Vincent
°1962 - Neilly-sur-Seine (France).Vincent Dunoyer began his professional career in 1989 as a dancer for Wim Vandekeybus, then joined Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s company Rosas from 1990 to 1996. In 1997/98, he performed and toured internationally '3 solos for Vincent', choreographed for him by The Wooster Group, Steve Paxton and De Keersmaeker. Since 1998, he has worked as a free-lance dancer (for Rosas, Raimund Hoghe.. ...
Acconci, Vito
°1940 - Bronx, New York (United States). Lives and works in Brooklyn.Vito Acconci's early work focussed on fiction and poetry, but by the late 1960s and early 1970s he had started to engage in performances, take photographs, and make films and videos, becoming one of the major performance artists of his generation ...
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. ...
Marriott, John
°1964 - Vancouver (Canada). Lives and works in Toronto.John Marriott is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada ...
Verstockt, Mark
°1930 - Lokeren (Belgium).After a short stay at the University of Ghent, Mark Verstockt started his studies at the Antwerp Arts Academy around 1950. In his collaborations with Dan Van Severen he develops a style of lyrical abstraction, following the examples of Parisian painters such as Hans Hartung and Georges Mathieu. Verstockt worked mainly in Antwerp, but his success does not end at the borders of Belgium ...
Nys, Sophie
°1974 - BelgiumSophie 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 ...
Tuerlinckx, Joëlle
°1958 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Joëlle Tuerlinckx (1958, Brussels, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels. Professor at ERG masterII , Brussels (B) and HEAD, Geneve (CH). With Tuerlinckx’s work the conventional distance between the viewer and the art object fades. Her exhibitions are registrations of moments, proposals for temporary relationships between space, time and the world. ...
de Pencier, Nick
Nicholas de Pencier is a director, producer, and director of photography working in documentary, performing arts, and dramatic film. He is President of Mercury Films Inc., the Toronto-based production company he shares with his partner, Jennifer Baichwal. ...
Paik, Nam June
°1932 - Seoul, SOUTH KOREANam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He was married to the video artist Shigeko Kubota in 1965. ...
Arazi, Simon
°1971 - Beirut (Libanon). Lives and works in Brussels.Arazi's video documentaries reflect on the 'doctrine of propaganda' and 'culture of persuasion'; using various collage techniques to reveal known or hidden ‘truths'. Many of them question ‘truth value’ and that the borderline between documentary and fiction, or reality and fantasy is often becoming hard to distinguish. ...
Dekyndt, Edith
°1960 - Ypres (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels and Berlin.Edith Dekyndt investigates methods of perception and phenomena on the verge of the invisible, through installations, video art, drawings and photography. Her work consists of disturbing observations of physical phenomena. The disturbance itself is seldom spectacular. Instead, the artist playfully explores universal forces at work in everyday life, such as heat, light, gravity and magnetism. ...
Liénard, Bénédicte
°1965 - Mons (Belgium).The films of Liénard show a strong social commitment towards the least visible, the most vulnerable layers of the population, in a style which fluctuates between the intimate and the political. ...
Gaston, Julie
°1993 - WeilburgJulie Gaston is a German artist, actress, performer, film director and storyteller. Her artistic practice focuses on exploring and exposing the hidden structures and influences of social and psychological constructs, which are interwoven with the web of human existence. Her work has been shown in numerous group and solo shows at national and international exhibition venues and film festivals ...
Peres dos Santos, Miguel
°1976 - Lisbon (Portugal). Lives and works in The Hague.Miguel Peres Dos Santos (°1976, Lisbon, Portugal) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By emphasising aesthetics, he reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history. ...
Tazartès, Ghédalia
In 1974, the French artist Ghédalia Tazartès bought a microphone, tape recorder and band echo. Primarily using his voice as an instrument, he began to develop ‘Impromuz’, his own musical language. In his performances, Tazartès creates a musical background of drones and loops over which he sings in a style reminiscent of gypsy folk music ...
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 ...
Van Kerckhoven, Anne-Mie
°1951 - Antwerpen (Belgium). Lives and works in Antwerp.Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK studied graphic design at the Fine Arts Academy of Antwerp. A straightforward feminist tone pervades in all her works, in which the erotic meets machine-fetishism. She explores the relation between art, science, politics and social issues. ...
De Vries, Erki
°1978 - Vilvoorde (Belgium)."Erki De Vries got his Master in Spatial Arts at the Karel De Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp, after which he took a postgraduate in Visual arts in Breda, the Netherlands. In 2003 he was admitted into the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Antwerp. His videos are poetical explorations of the stratification of a specific environment ...
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. ...
