KUNSTENAARS IN DE KIJKER
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 ...
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 ...
Gourault, Nicolas
°1991 - Bourg-la-Reine. Lives and works in ParisNicolas Gourault is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris (FR) with a background in visual arts and visual studies. He has worked with Forensic Architecture before graduating from Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts. His work is imbued with this double training, navigating between online open-source investigations and the critical use of new media as documentary tools ...
Peres dos Santos, Miguel
°1976 - Lisbon (Portugal). Lives and works in The Hague.Artist, researcher, film maker and educator, Miguel Luis Peres Antunes dos Santos was born in Lisbon in the late seventies, before moving to the Netherlands at the turn of the millennium. With a background in photography and video, his educational trajectory includes a Bachelor in Fine Arts and a Master degree in Artistic Research ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pfleiderer, Julie
°1979 - Dusseldorf (Germany). Lives and works in Berlin and BrusselsIn her work Julie explores the border of documentary and fiction. She is interested in the shift where fiction becomes truth and truth starts to be fictional. Julie enjoys collaborative processes where different media and approaches are put in dialogue to create friction out of permanent differentiation ...
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. ...
Claus, Eva
°1992 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Eva Claus is a filmmaker currently based in Brussels, Belgium. She has made a number of 16mm short films and was educated at the Friedl Kubelka School for independent film in Vienna, Austria. She obtained her MA and BA in Fine Arts at the photography department The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Her films have been screened in various places over the world. ...
Salloum, Jayce
°1958 - Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada). Lives in Vancouver.As if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories (most everywhere), Salloum observes the world and creates/collects images/texts to re-make meaning from or comment on. Since arriving here - by no means of his own volition - he tries to go only where he is invited or where there is an intrinsic affinity, his projects being rooted in an intimate engagement with place ...
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 ...
Reijniers, Anne
°1992 - Deurne (Belgium).Anne Reijniers is a documentary and fiction filmmaker, whose work has been shown at EMAF (DE), OFFoff (BE) and Cinematek (BE). Since 2015, she has been collaborating with researcher Rob Jacobs to create the documentary "Echangeur", with the support of Het Bos and the art festival Kinact in Kinshasa. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Noël, Cédric
°1978 - Argenteuil (France).Cédric Noël is a visual artist interested in the nature of images, and more specifically in the mental processes involved in the production and the reception of an image ...
Istarú, Ardélia
°1998 - Lives and works in BrusselsArdélia Istarú is a French-Costa Rican filmmaker graduated in videography from the school of graphic research ERG, in Brussels. She has an experimental approach to politics around intimacy through documentary and animation. ...
Vanagt, Sarah
°1976 - Bruges (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Sarah Vanagt makes documentaries, video installations and photos, in which she combines her interest for history with her interest for (the origins of) cinema. Her graduation film AFTER YEARS OF WALKING (2003) looks at the rewriting of Rwandan history after the genocide of 1994 ...
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' ...
Wieland, Gernot
°1968 - Horn (Austria). Lives and works in Berlin.The Austrian artist Gernot Wieland works with research, memory and narration. His films bring together historical reports with personal recollections and scientific facts, fictional and real elements and develop a sense of the uncanny, mostly in ironic and absurd forms. The works are characterized by a gripping, tragicomic and poetic sobriety and follow associative narrative structures. ...
Sanders, Mira
°1973 - Uccle (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Mira Sanders (b. 1973) studied Fine Arts at Sint-Lukas Brussels and is lecturer / researcher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture Campus Sint-Lucas Brussels/Ghent. Her oeuvre consists of video works, drawings and installations, in which a constant quest emerges for the places, people and stories they contain ...
