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. ...
van Dam, George
°1964 - Windhoek, Khomas (Namibia).The Namibian-born violinist George Alexander van Dam has been a committed performer of contemporary music since the early stages of his career ...
Aventurin, Annabelle
°1991 - France. Lives and works in ParisAnnabelle Aventurin est chargée de la conservation et de la diffusion des archives de Med Hondo à Ciné-Archives (fonds audiovisuel du PCF et du mouvement ouvrier). En 2021, elle a coordonné, en collaboration avec le Harvard Film Archive, la restauration de West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979) et de Sarraounia (Med Hondo, 1986) ...
General Idea
°1968 - Toronto (Canada).In 1968, AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal founded the Toronto based artists’ group General Idea. Their subjects came from mass culture’s consumerism, celebrity, glamour, and from the art world. Their artworks participated in mass culture, rather than oppose or work outside it ...
Igwe, Onyeka
°1986 - LondonOnyeka Igwe (1986, London) is an artist and researcher working between cinema and installation. In her non-fiction video work Onyeka uses dance, voice, archives, sound design and text to create structural ‘figure-of-eights’, a format that exposes a multiplicity of narratives ...
Vermeir, Katleen
°1973 - Bornem (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.The work of Vermeir revolves around the invisible topographical traces of a city, as well as a series of ‘tableaux vivants’, video paintings identifying universal aspects of human attitudes and architectural models. The collaborative work with her partner Rony Heiremans examines the dynamic relation between art, architecture and economy, and its mediation in private and public spheres. ...
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. ...
Bennett, Justin
°1964 - Nuneaton, Warwickshire (United Kingdom).Justin Bennett’s work covers a wide range of genres, from (audio-)visual arts to music. Central to his thinking and work are a process-orientated approach and an interest in the elasticity of the concept of ‘space’. Bennett produces (reworked) field recordings, drawings, performances, installations, photographs, videos and essays ...
Tavier, Vincent
°1962 - Namur (Belgium).
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 ...
Dundic, Emmanuel
°1969 - Ougrée (Belgium).Co-founder of IBWT (2002) and of the group Hôtel Jeudi in February 2009 with Florence Marchand, Pablo Garcia Rubio and Selçuk Mutlu. ...
Catrysse, Wim
°1973 - Leuven (Belgium). Lives and works in Antwerp.Wim Catrysse’s experimental video installations are concerned with 'becoming', as a term, which leads to associations with active and reactive forces, ultimately determining the personal identity. His attention is principally aimed at corporeal expression, at the language of the body, which can be perceived as the result of his fondness for the theater and live performances. ...
Vostell, Wolf
°1932 - Leverkusen (Germany).Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the early adopters of Video art, Environment, Installation, Happening and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete. ...
Colomer, Jordi
°1962 - Barcelona (Spain). Lives in Paris and Barcelona.Colomer was trained as an architect and art historian, and his work has always been informed by a sensibility for architecture. He studies the way in which the modern city influences human behaviour. He explores the ubiquity and drawbacks of modernism in the urban environment. ...
Coorevits, Jana
Jana Coorevits’ artistic practice is situated at the intersection of experimental film, photography, and visual art. She delves into issues surrounding femininity, vulnerability, and trauma. In recent years, her focus has been on finding ways to speak about personal and collective experiences of sexual violence through artistic work ...
Baes, Pascal
°1959 - Nice (France). Lives and works in Brussels.Pascal Baes experiments with the use of the stop-motion technique and specializes in image-by-image animation. He has also produced a range of "dance films". where dancing itself is released from its limitations, which are inherent to the stage, and recorded as a paradoxical experience. Thematically, as well as philosophically, he refers to the cinematic avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. ...
De Cock, Jan
°1976 - Etterbeek (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Jan De Cock is renowned for his sculptural installations, which the artist sees as monuments to Modernism. His monumental installations mix often plywood sculptural modules that recall twentieth-century abstraction – formally referring to the modernist and constructivist idioms – with color and black-and-white photographs, video- and film works ...
Ferrand, Carlos
°1946 - Lima (Peru). Lives and works in Montréal.Carlos Ferrand studied Cinematography in the United States, in his native country Peru, and in Belgium. He is a director, director of photography and screenwriter. His works have been awarded several times. Carlos Ferrand is the vice-president of the M.R.C. (Montfaucon Research Center)-Montréal, created in 1977 ...
Eisenhoet, Bedrich
°1963 - Brussels (Belgium).Writer and video artist. Co-director of De Ezel van Buridan (Buridan's Donkey), created together with Frank Theys in 1990 as a message for the Belgian king Baudouin on his birthday, concerning a subject very dear to the king: youth and the search for identity in a multicultural society. ...
