Cristea, Alina
°1989 - RomaniaAlina 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 ...
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. ...
Paesmans, Dirk
°1965 - Brussels (Belgium).Dirk Paesmans studied plastic arts together with Koen Theys at St. Lukas in Brussels, and sculpting at the Academy in Ghent. In 1981, only just about getting on twenty, they began to make videos together under the name of V-side. Their first work Radar (1981) was, as they put it, "a flood of images we caught on our sensory radar" ...
Riga, Jean-Claude
°1951 - Liège (Belgium).Jean-Claude Riga is a Belgian filmmaker born in Liège. He studied Sociology at the Université de Liège, and is the director and producer of multiple documentaries. ...
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'. ...
De Raes, Ben
°1990 - Antwerp (Belgium)Ben De Raes is a filmmaker who lives and works in Brussels. In 2016 he graduated from KASK School of Arts (Ghent, Belgium) with his documentary The Potato Eaters. His films aim to explore the world of economics, labour and unemployment. Ben is also founder of small-scale production platform, Dagvorm Films ...
Tzaig, Uri
°1965 - Kiryat Gat (Israel). Lives and works in Tel-Aviv.Ever since Uri Tzaig started out as an artist in the early nineties, he has been engaged in cultural, anthropological and political topics. The artist works with multiple media, using techniques to divert the attention of the viewer and challenge his expectations. In his highly reflective and contextual work the ordinary is mingled with the magical ...
Guillaume, Elise
°1996 - Lives and works in BrusselsElise Guillaume (b. 1996) is an artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. Her interdisciplinary practice includes film, video, sound, photography and sculpture—sometimes presented as immersive installations. The body is a central element in her work: it becomes a vessel for interpreting the interconnections between the beings that make up our world ...
Thys, Harald
°1966 - Wilrijk (Belgium).Harald Thys (1966, Wilrijk, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels. He studied at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Fine Arts Department, in the Netherlands. Best known for his collaborations with Jos De Gruyter ...
De Volder, Geoffroy
°1964 - Brussels (Belgium).De Volder started his studies in painting at La Cambre in 1985. The teachers who influenced his style most were Pasternak, Guy Bauclair and Jacques Sojcher. Initially he wanted to become a graphic designer, and create sleeves for music records, but due to bad grades and after visiting an exhibition of Giacometti he switched to painting instead ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nedreaas, Trine Lise
°1972 - Bergen (Norway). Lives and works in London.Trine Lise Nedreaas (°1972, Bergen, Norway) studied art history philosophy at the University of Bergen (Norway) before moving to London where she started her art education at Central Saint Martin College of Art and Design (1994-95) and later at The Slade School of Fine Art (1995–99) ...
de Boer, Manon
°1966 - Kodaikanal (India).Manon de Boer (India, 1966) lives and works in Brussels, where she is a member of the artist collective Auguste Orts, created in 2006. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam ...
Dauby, Margaux
°1989 - Lives and works between Brussels and LisboaMargaux Dauby is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist. She graduated in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and holds a Master in Audiovisual Arts from the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels. Her practice starts from the questioning of notions of language, play, attachment and belonging. She lives and works between Lisbon and Brussels. ...
Spyrou, Alkaios
°1991 - Elbasan, AlbaniaAlcaeus Spyrou is a filmmaker living and working in The Hague, Netherlands. His interest lays in observing spaces of financial violence. Through documenting these landscapes, the violence imposed on them is unveiled. These stories are then assembled into films that combine fiction and non-fiction, forming a mythology of neoliberal policies ...
Van der Auwera, Emmanuel
°1982 - Brussels (Belgium).Emmanuel Van der Auwera (b. 1982, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium ...
