Van Paesschen, Bram
°1979 - Vilvoorde (Belgium).Born in 1979, in Vilvoorde, Belgium. Graduated in 2002 from Sint-Lukas Brussels, specialized in film/video documentary. Lives and works in Brussels (except for when he’s elsewhere). Van Paesschen’s work is indebted to various traditions of documentary filmmaking, from ‘classic’ to fake documentary and essayistic formats ...
Ghammam, Fairuz
°1980 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Fairuz is fully living the European dream as a visual enthusiast in film and in print. She wonders how to change the world and hopes to find an answer as soon as possible. Luckily she grew up with the knowledge that patience is the key to happiness. She graduated as an experimental filmmaker and works as an editor, cinematographer and director in cinema beyond genres and formats ...
Duke, Emily Vey
°1972 - Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada).Cooper Battersby (b. 1971, Penticton British Columbia, Canada) and Emily Vey Duke (b. 1972, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada) have been working collaboratively since 1994. They work in printed matter, installation, curation and sound, but their primary practice is the production of single-channel video. ...
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 ...
Huybrechts, Jo
°1958 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Jo Huybrechts has been making audiovisual and sculptural work since 1983. He uses simple techniques to create hybrid videos and installations which are the open result of transmutations, deconstructions and reconstructions. The artist teaches at the film department of Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Brussels. ...
Luyckx, Eddy
Created producing company Tarantula in 1995, together with Donato Rotunno. They forged relationships with fellow producers such as Jo Rouschop in Belgium and Marco Giusti in London and others in Switzerland and Paris. ...
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 ...
Reinke, Steve
°1963 - Ontario (Canada). Lives and works in Chicago.In his darkly witty works, the artist, writer and professor Steve Reinke appropriates everything he sees and creates multiple fictions, making his improbable scenarios and appalling fantasies sound completely reasonable. He lures us into complicity, then take us one step beyond, into a region we cannot occupy comfortably ...
Dumon, Dirk
°1943"Dirk Dumon studied at the RITCS film academy in Brussels and he worked for the former BRTN (now VRT). He made some fifty documentaries, focussing for the most part on the sociological, anthropological and cultural-scientific, with an emphasis on the Third World ...
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 ...
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 ...
Heremans, Sandra
°1989 - RwandaSandra Heremans is art historian and filmmaker. She received a MA in Art History in Social and Cultural Anthropology. In her Master theses, she focused on the power and representation of the symbol in the art theory of Aby Warburg. Heremans later discovered experimental film and made her first short The Yellow Mazda and His Holiness (2018). ...
Nyst, Danièle
°1942 - Liège (Belgium).Danièle Nyst studied at the Madrid Academy of Fine Arts and produced music programs for the RTBF (Radio Television Belge-Française). Together with her husband, Jacques Louis Nyst, she made reflective, capricious, fantastic, poetic or purely theoretical videos. The concern of how art ‘functions’ is always central ...
de Pencier, Nick
Nicholas de Pencier is a director, producer, and director of photography working in documentary, performing arts, and dramatic film. He is President of Mercury Films Inc., the Toronto-based production company he shares with his partner, Jennifer Baichwal. ...
Palestine, Charlemagne
°1945 - Brooklyn, New York (United States).Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium). ...
Meltzer, Julia
°1968 - Hollywood, California (USA). Lives in Los Angeles.Julia Meltzer her work takes up subjects ranging from the bureaucracy of secrecy to contemporary politics in the Middle East. She frequently collaborates with Los Angeles based artist David Thorne to produce installations, photographs, and videos that raise questions about the uses of documents and their social, political, and affective impact. ...
Vanrunxt, Marc
°1960"Marc Vanrunxt has been one of the key figures of the Antwerp dance scene since the beginning of the 1980s. He was taught by An Slootmaekers, but soon he began to develop a choreographic style of his own. He has worked as a dancer and choreographer with Jan Fabre, Catherine Massin, Truus Bronkhorst and the groups Fac’t and Nationaal Fonds ...
Smits, George
°1944 - Antwerp (Belgium).George Smits was a multi-faceted musician and visual artist. He was a fixture of Antwerp's underground art scene starting in the mid-1960s, and preferably describing himself as a beatnik ...
