Jonas, Joan
°1936 - New York (United States).Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She began her career in New York City as a sculptor ...
Van Snick, Philippe
°1946 - Ghent (Belgium).The work of Philippe Van Snick is characterized by extremely simple forms and by the constant use of the same colours in combination with geometric shapes. Van Snick considers a painting to be much more than just a painted surface. The forms, objects and colours he uses never stand wholly alone ...
Dujourie, Lili
°1941 - Roeselare (Belgium).Lili Dujourie (1941, Roeselare, Belgium) lives and works in Belgium. In her work, Dujourie plays with the sensuality and immediacy of materials, emphasizes the performative aspect of the artwork, investigates the relationship between nature and culture, and gives decorative and ornamental elements a central role ...
D'Haeseleer, Kurt
°1974 - Lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).The recent work of video artist Kurt D’Haeseleer examines the impact of public space on our everyday reality. In a strategy of ’hidden complexity’, his images reveal his concern with social and architectural themes. Kurt D’Haeseleer studied modern history in Leuven and Vienna, and cinema, video and television in Brussels ...
Jureša, Jelena
°1974 - Novi Sad (Yugoslavia). Lives and works in Ghent (Belgium).Jelena Jureša works with video, photography and text, often starting with in-depth research. In her works, she relates individual stories and questions of identity to collective processes of oblivion and remembrance. She unceasingly questions historical and political narratives, and tries to destabilise our ideas of what is true. ...
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 ...
Albers, Beatrijs
°1959 - Leuven (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Albers' work questions the underlying structures of social reality and the way in which reality is codified. The artist conceives her many journeys as a literal activity and also a mental exploration into contents and disentanglement of interests with the aims of founding her art with objective and autobiographical elements. ...
Krajinovic, Jasna
°1967 - Slovenia.Jasna Krajinovic received her training at the Academy for Theatre, Film and Television in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and later at INSAS, Brussels. Before 'Un Été avec Anton', she filmed 'Saya et Mira, rêves perdus…' (2002), 'Deux sœurs' (2005) and 'La Chambre de Damien' (2008) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Decostere, Stefaan
°1955 - Kortrijk (Belgium). Lives and works in Ostend.Stefaan Decostere studied film direction at the National Film School RITS in Brussels. He is among the handful of truly innovative directors working within television, creating new forms to more complex ideas. In his works he tries to problematize the relation between documentary and fiction by dissolving the boundaries between them. ...
Vekemans, Emilien
Emilien Vekemans graduated as an actor at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion. Since then he has acted in the theatre and in films; he has participated in various young creations (web series, plays for a young public). Zoufs is the first film where he spent all his time behind the camera. ...
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 ...
Tarantino, Maria
°1972 - Milan (Italy). Lives and works in Belgium.Maria Tarantino (born in Milan in 1972) studied philosophy in Scotland and Italy before settling down in Belgium, where she gradually moves from philosophy to journalism. In Brussels she works for the press, radio and television for several years ...
Cattelain, Claude
°1972 - Kinshasa (Congo).Claude Cattelain (1972, Kinshasa, Congo) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and Valenciennes, France. He experiments in various disciplines - painting, sculpture and video art - aiming at notions of instability, fragility and escapism. ...
Menia, Amina
°1976 - Algiers. Lives and works in Algiers.Amina Menia’s work questions the relation to architectural and historical spaces, and challenges conventional notions around the exhibition space. Her artworks are a crossovers of sculptures and installations that trigger an interaction of viewers and passersby with socio-spatial configurations. ...
Keller, Dagmar
°1972 - Donaueschingen (Germany).Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer studied at the Art Academy Düsseldorf and at the Academy of Media Art in Cologne. They have been collaborating as an artist duo since 1997, creating extensive photographic cycles, film and video installations. The artist duo has presented its artworks in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and at international festivals and venues ...
