KUNSTENAARS

van. Dienderen, An

°1971 - Brasschaat, Antwerp (Belgium). Lives and works in Ghent.
An van. Dienderen (1971, Braaschaat, Belgium) is a filmmaker and obtained a PhD in Comparative Cultural Sciences. She made several (inter)nationally awarded films, published in (inter)national journals and directs a small non profit art production company (Elektrischer Schnellseher) ...

Saleh Mohamedali, Nizar

°1987 - DR Congo
Nizar Saleh Mohamedali is a graphic designer, filmmaker and photographer. In 2013 he followed a film training in Kinshasa, organised by INSAS. Currently he is finishing his studies in visual communication at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Nizar has worked on several documentaries and, together with fellow filmmaker Paul Shemisi, founded the production house 'Kimpavita films' ...

Israël, Thomas

°1975 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
The Brussels-based multimedia artist Thomas Israël proposes immersive, interactive works in the form of video installations, sculptures and performances. Having begun his career in theatre, his atypical approach to digital arts revolves around the themes of the body, time and the subconscious ...

Couturier, Michel

°1957 - Liège (Belgium).
Michel Couturier is fascinated by unlivable places: parking lots, shopping malls, harbour installations. The fundamental intuitive idea behind his work is that these places are like a magnifying mirror of the public space. These places are like ‘forest of signs’ those of power and alienation), a substituted nature ...

Giolo, Eva

°1991 - Brussels. Lives and works in Brussels
EVA GIOLO is an artist working in film. Her work places particular focus on themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics ...

Cos, Teresa

°1982 - Latisana, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia (Italy). Lives and works in Brussels and London.
Teresa Cos makes use of improvisation and reiteration techniques to create audiovisual works which investigate the active and passive forms of repetition at the bases of human emotional and social processes ...
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Dujourie, Lili

°1941 - Roeselare (Belgium).
Lili Dujourie (1941, Roeselare, Belgium) lives and works in Belgium. In her work, Dujourie plays with the sensuality and immediacy of materials, emphasizes the performative aspect of the artwork, investigates the relationship between nature and culture, and gives decorative and ornamental elements a central role ...

Courtois, Pierre

°1950 - La Roche en Ardenne (Belgium).
Pierre Courtois is a multifaceted Belgian artist, whose areas of expertise include painting, sculpture, video art, and installations known as ‘Land Art’, where his creations are put in a landscape, indoors or outdoors, in an attempt to create a dialogue. His workshop is in the old Ferme de Cochaute, where he also offers lodgings and organises concerts. ...

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 ...

Van Damme, Philippe

°1965 - Brussels (Belgium).
Philippe Van Damme’s main preoccupation seems to be the city, its construction and the notion of time reflected in it. In Rue de l’Avenir he zooms in on a hundred year old demolished street in Brussels. For Der Landmesser am Japanischen Palais he went to Dresden and discovered (what did you expect?) a completely different city ...

Persijn, Jurgen

°1966 - Waregem (Belgium)
During a short period of three years, immediately after graduating from Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design, Jurgen Persijn (°1966, Waregem) directed three commissioned videotapes in collaboration with Ana Torfs, amongst which, Akarova &. Baugniet/L’entre-deux-guerres (1991) and Mozartmaterial (1993) ...

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. ...
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Michels, Bie

°1960 - Kimwenza (Congo). Lives and works in Belgium.
As an artist, Bie Michels positions herself as an observer. Her work focuses on observing, recording, and questioning the representation of the "other".  This "other" remains a construct—both a desire and an impossibility to fully know or possess ...

Deleu, Luc

°1944 - Duffel (Belgium). Lives and works in Antwerp.

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. ...

Zéno, Thierry

°1950 - Namur (Belgium).