KUNSTENAARS IN DE KIJKER
Goryainova, Ira A.
°1984 - Moscow (Russia). Lives and works in Belgium.Ira A. Goryainova graduated in 2016 as a documentary director from the Brussels' Royal Institute for Theater, Cinema & Sound and received greatest honor for her thesis. Goryainova plays with the expectations of viewers as she often crosses the borders between fiction and nonfiction. Her personal visual and narrative style is dark and often influenced by underground art movements and film ...
Brygo, Alice
°1996 - MontpellierAlice Brygo graduated from l'École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in 2019. Her practice dwells at the borders of documentary method, fantastic cinema and installation. She explores the notion of uncertainty in fragile times, questioning the imaginaries of survival and community-building through an encounter between different social groups and symbolic detourning. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
Jacobs, Rob
°1989 - Mortsel (Belgium).Rob Jacobs is a PhD-researcher, connected to the University of Antwerp in Belgium and the University of Aarhus in Denmark. His work concentrates on contested official representations of Belgian colonialism and artistic/activist reinterpretations of the colonial past in public spaces in Belgium and DR Congo ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Marxt, Lukas
°1983 - Schladming (Austria). Lives and works in Cologne and Brussels.Lukas Marxt (°1983, Austria) is an artist and a filmmaker living and working between Cologne and Graz ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vromman, Jan
°1958 - Wingene (Belgium).The media used by the socially-focused artist Jan Vromman includes both video documentaries as well as text, theatre, fiction films and, more recently, multimedia projects. The choices of Vromman are not defined by the primary amazement of all that is exotic, but by his own experience and the things he is familiar with. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peres dos Santos, Miguel
°1976 - Lisbon (Portugal). Lives and works in The Hague.Miguel Peres Dos Santos (°1976, Lisbon, Portugal) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By emphasising aesthetics, he reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history. ...
