KUNSTENAARS IN DE KIJKER
Jean-Baptiste, Maxime
°1993 - France. Currently based in Brussels and Paris.Maxime Jean-Baptiste is a filmmaker based between Brussels and Paris. He was born and raised in the context of the Guyanese and Antillean diaspora in France, to a French mother and a Guyanese father. His interest as an artist is to dig inside the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting the survival of traumas from the past in the present ...
Dauby, Margaux
°1989 - Lives and works between Brussels and LisboaMargaux Dauby is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist. She graduated in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and holds a Master in Audiovisual Arts from the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels. Her practice starts from the questioning of notions of language, play, attachment and belonging. She lives and works between Lisbon and Brussels. ...
Michels, Bie
°1960 - Kimwenza (Congo). Lives and works in Belgium.As an artist, Bie Michels positions herself as an observer. Her work focuses on observing, recording, and questioning the representation of the "other". This "other" remains a construct—both a desire and an impossibility to fully know or possess ...
Shemisi Betutua, Paul
°1982 - DR CongoPaul Shemisi Betutua started studying law, but soon swapped the lawbook for the camera. After gaining experience as a sound engineer and a camera assistant for foreign film crews, he started his own film training in 2013, organised by INSAS ...
Rubio, Edurne
°1974 - Burgos (Spain).Edurne Rubio (Spain, 1974) is a visual artist working in the fields of exhibitions, performance, cinema and architecture. Very often, she makes in-situ projects in public space. Her research has always been related to the individual or collective perception of time and space ...
Foighel Brutmann, Sirah
°1983 - Tel Aviv (Israel). Lives and works in Brussels.Sirah Foighel Brutmann has been working in collaboration with Eitan Efrat for several years. Together, they create works in the audiovisual field. Sirah and Eitan's practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image ...
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 ...
Asselberghs, Herman
°1962 - Mechelen (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Herman Asselberghs practices a cinema of the possible, not one of reality. In a commentary on and a resistance to the tyranny of the absolute spectacle he explores the spaces in between, where (conscious) being is still in full development, where hardening has not yet set in ...
Côte, Félix
°1993 - Angoulême, FranceBorn in 1993 (27-05) in France, Félix Côte’s work offers ways to appropriate digital and new technologies in order to produce critical uses. Coming from a hybrid background, with degrees in both multimedia engineering and art, he creates pieces that confront the public with their own digital and Internet practices ...
Terziev, Krassimir
°1969 - Dobritch (Bulgaria). Lives and works in Sofia.Krassimir Terziev (1969, Dobritch, Bulgaria) received a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Sofia University (2012), and is lecturer in the Digital Arts MA Program at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, where he received an MA in Painting (1997). Terziev is one of the leading Bulgarian contemporary artists ...
Saleh Mohamedali, Nizar
°1987 - DR CongoNizar Saleh Mohamedali is a graphic designer, filmmaker and photographer. In 2013 he followed a film training in Kinshasa, organised by INSAS. Currently he is finishing his studies in visual communication at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Nizar has worked on several documentaries and, together with fellow filmmaker Paul Shemisi, founded the production house 'Kimpavita films' ...
Konrad, Aglaia
°1960 - Salzburg (Austria). Lives and works in Brussels.AGLAIA KONRAD is a photography-based artist whose work has focused mainly on metropolitan urban space. She was an advising researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and now teaches at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels ...
Arthur, Rebecca Jane
°1984 - Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom). Lives and works in Brussels.Rebecca Jane Arthur is a visual artist working predominantly with the moving image and writing. Her works often revolve around portraits of people and places, and her interest lies in personal stories that depict a socio-political context and history. Arthur obtained her MA in Fine Arts at KASK, Ghent, in 2017 ...
Bünger, Erik
°1976 - Växjo (Sweden). Lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.Erik Bünger is an artist, writer and composer whose work presents an ongoing investigation into the human voice and its contradictory relationship to language, technology and the human body ...
Giolo, Eva
°1991 - Brussels. Lives and works in BrusselsEva Giolo is an artist working in film. Her work places particular focus on themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics ...
Julier, Pauline
°1981 - GenevaPauline Julier (1981, Geneva) is an artist and filmmaker. She explores the connections that people make with their environment through stories, rituals, knowledge and images. Her films and installations combine elements of different origins (documentary, theoretical, fictional) to reflect the complexity of our relationships with the world ...
Cappelle, Justine
°1995 - Lives and works in BrusselsJustine Cappelle is a female Belgian filmmaker. Her graduation film MAREGRAVE is a portrait of the North Sea, as a collector of human decay. The movie instantly proofed her talented eye for the power of documentary storytelling, not only by capturing reality but by interpreting it and giving it an innovative, humorous and personal dimension ...
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. ...
Downsbrough, Peter
°1940 - New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA). Lived in BrusselsPeter Downsbrough’s work encompasses sculpture, graphics, photography, video, film, and books, and presents complex associations between architecture, text and typography. Only the bare essentials remain: form is often reduced to lines, colours are mostly barred ...
Oki, Dan
°1965 - Zadar (Croatia).Slobodan Jokić, artist name Dan Oki. Filmmaker and visual artist, professor of film and electronic arts at the University of Split and Zagreb. Belonging to the generation of artists who in 1990s in Amsterdam worked with film and photography, made cinematographic databases and interactive video. Made four independent feature films: Oxygen4, The Performance, The Dark and The Farewell ...
