Van Es, Hubert
°1937 - Antwerp (Belgium).Hubert Van Es is the pseudonym for Flor Bex. Under this name, the former director of the Antwerp ICC and founder of the M HKA, the museum for contemporary Art in Antwerp, created several videoworks in the 1970', among which "Experiments for auto-communication", which is part of the Argoscollection. Bex was director of the Muhka until 2002. ...
Marécaille, Hubert
°1973 - Nantes (France).Video artist, actor and musician ...
Summers, Elaine
°1925 - Perth (Australia). Lives and works in New York.Elaine Summers, one of the original members of the Judson Dance Theater, is one of the pioneers of conceptual dance from the 1960s and 1970s ...
Wouters, Maurits
°1986 - Turnhout (Belgium).Maurits Wouters (°1986, Turnhout) completed his master studies at the RITS School of Arts and has been active as a filmmaker and visual artist since 2009. Besides his master at RITS he graduated from University Antwerp (Film-& theatre studies) in 2011. Since October 2013 he has been doing a PhD, supported by the fund for scientific research – Flanders (FWO) ...
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'. ...
Sliaupa, Paulius
°1990 - Vilnius (Lithuania). Lives and works in Vilnius.Paulius holds a BA in painting and an MFA in contemporary sculpture in Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania, an MFA in media arts in KASK, a laureate degree at HISK postgraduate residency programme in Ghent, Belgium. In 2022 he won the grand prize of ArtContest, Belgium ...
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. ...
Vermeire, Katrien
°1979 - Ostende (Belgium).Katrien Vermeire (1979, Belgium) studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and Art History (BA) at Ghent University. The winner of the 4th annual Fine Arts Award of the Province of West-Flanders (BE) in 2002, she has been working as an independent artist since, developing a distinctive style that is not only highly poetic but also very varied and layered ...
Guns, Tine
°1983 - Aalst (Belgium). Lives and works in Ghent.Tine Guns (°1983) focuses on the constant metamorphosis that we experience as human beings, and the inability to capture the fleeting reality. The influence of our memory on how we perceive images results in multiple perceptions and interpretations. Guns’ work tries to open up our linear historiographical point of view by offering new combinations ...
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 ...
Volckaert, Didier
°1971 - Belgium. Lives and works in Ghent.Didier Volckaert obtained a Master Degree in Visual Arts and Experimental Cinema at the St Lukas School of Art in Brussels, and is a PhD. Researcher at RITS / University of Brussels. He mainly made documentaries, largely inspired, both with regards to form and content, by experimental films and pre-cinema. He is also a curator, teacher and visual artist. ...
Theys, Koen
°1963 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Koen Theys studied at the St. Lucas Academy in Brussels. Throughout his practice as a video artist he develops a language that consists in adding emotional, intuitive or intellectual connotations to elementary images, which are continuously combined in different ways so that a narrative structure arises. ...
Brosens, Peter
°1962 - Leuven (Belgium). Lives and works in FalaënSince 1993, Peter Brosens (°1962) has built an impressive track record as an independent director and producer of high-profile creative documentaries. Upon graduating in both Urban Geography and Cultural Anthropology, Peter worked as an expert in migration and urban development in Ecuador. During his M.A ...
Garabedian, Mekhitar
°1977 - Aleppo (Syria). Lives and works in Ghent (Belgium).Mekhitar Garabedian was born into the Armenian diaspora, and his works explore some of the difficulties involved in articulating his identity. Having migrated from Lebanon to Belgium as a young child, his videos and installations illustrate the fragility and endurance of both individual and collective identities, as well as the enduring impact of the Armenian genocide ...
Watkins, Peter
°1935 - Norbiton (United States). Lives and works in Lithuania.Peter Watkins is one of the main pioneers of docudrama. Since the late 1950s he has been searching for strategies to overcome the passive and hierarchical relationship that cinema and television generally establish with their audience. Most of his films combine dramatic and documentary elements, and he often uses non-professional actors. ...
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 ...
