Mannaerts, Valérie
°1974 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.In her work, Mannaerts extends the method of collage to spatial objects. She explores the physiognomic qualities of things, questioning the relation between organic and inorganic forms, the presence and autonomy of objects as well as the histories sedimented within them. Mannaerts works in different media (installation, drawing, photography,...). In film the artist worked in Super 8. ...
Crabeels, Cel
°1958 - Antwerp (Belgium).In his videos, installations, photographs and performances, Cel Crabeels toys with the notion of emptiness as being something meaningful, open to a multitude of interpretations. His spatial works often stimulate the audience to interact and experience the environment on a physical level; circumstantial elements play an important role ...
Van Lancker, Laurent
°1969 - Brussel (Belgium).Laurent Van Lancker (1969, Brussels, Belgium) studied both Film and Anthropology, and holds a PhD in Art. He lectures at film schools (INSAS, IAD) and universities (FU Berlin). For Laurent Van Lancker, every project is a new experience, in which a dialogue between form and content, ethics and aesthetics, political and poetical realms is to be found. ...
Van den Abeele, Michael
°1974 - Brussels (Belgium).There is hardly any stylistic continuity or mannerism in the diverse parallel activities of Michael Van den Abeele (°1974), going from post-surrealist drawing over animation-video to commodity objects and song-performances. But instead of being separated out from one another, they should be seen as embracing or instigating each other in an almost hysterical way ...
Lederlin, Jacques
°1950 - Grenoble (France).Jacques Lederlin is a creator of movie soundtracks. In 1999, the film GARAGE OLIMPO, with a soundtrack by Lederlin, was presented in Cannes. Lederlin is also knows as Joeëlle de la Casinière’s long-standing artistic and musical partner. ...
Labarthe, André S.
°1931 - Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (France).André S. Labarthe was born on December 18, 1931 in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France as André Sylvain Labarthe. He is a French actor, producer and director, known for "Cinéastes de notre temps" (1964), "Cinéma, de notre temps" (1988) and "Bernadette Lafont, exactement" (2007). He is also a former critic of the cinema magazine "Les Cahiers du Cinéma". ...
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 ...
Plissart, Marie-Françoise
°1954 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Marie-Françoise Plissart is a photographer and a filmmaker. Former companion of Benoît Peeters, she collaborated with him on several films, books and exhibitions. Marie-Françoise Plissart’s photographs have been in many exhibitions. In 2004 she received the main award at the Architecture Biennale at Venice for her work on Kinshasa ...
Pazienza, Claudio
°1962 - Roccascalegna (Italy). Lives and works in Brussels.Claudio Pazienza is a militant for a cinema of ebullient knowledge. He is an Italian polyglot and has lived in Brussels since 1980. ...
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. ...
Mayer, Ralo
°1976 - Eisenstadt (Austria). Lives and works in Vienna.Ralo Mayer’s cross-media work derives its form from a process-oriented mode of artistic knowledge-generation. This artist’s main motifs include the investigation of narrative structures, the study of miniature universes and the interweaving of fiction and reality. ...
Martin, Patricia
°1956 - Switzerland"Patricia is the (identical) twin sister of Marie-France Martin. They grew up in Switzerland and after their Plastic Arts studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris they ended up in Brussels. Their inevitable duality, beloved as well as cursed, embraces every aspect of their work ...
Augustijnen, Sven
°1970 - Mechelen (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Sven Augustijnen (°1970 in Mechelen) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the Hoger Sint-Lukas Instituut in Brussels, and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His work concentrates mainly on the tradition of portraiture and the porous boundaries between fiction and reality, using a hybrid of genres and techniques to disorienting effect ...
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 ...
Braeckman, Dirk
°1958 - Eeklo (Belgium). Lives and works in Ghent.Dirk Braeckman studied photography and film at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (KASK) in Ghent from 1977 until 1981. From 1998-2002, he was involved as lecturer at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK) in Antwerp and in 2009 he started as guest lecturer at KASK Ghent. Braeckman started his artistic career as a photographer of portraits and self-portraits ...
Francis, Filip
°1944 - Duffel (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.A painter by education, Filip Francis has been working with different media since the 1970s, creating conceptual art and installations. ...
Behrman, David
°1937 - Salzburg (Austria).David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as compositions for performance in concerts. My Dear Siegfried, Leapday Night, On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Smalltalk and Long Throw are among Behrman's works for soloists and small ensembles ...
Weinberger, Daniel
°1950 - Antwerp (Belgium).
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 ...
