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 ...
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 ...
Guillard, Marion
°1980 - Nancy. Lives and works in BrusselsMarion Guillard grew up in Paris, but studied at the agricultural school in Burgundy. The productivist approach to the living world was so violent that she moved closer to images and took a University Diploma in “wildlife cinema” ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Saiz, Manuel
°1961 - Logroño, Spain. Lives and works in MadridManuel Saiz is an artist and writer, whose videos, media installations and publications are meta-reflections on the nature of art. His work has been presented at venues including the Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil; the Sculpture Biennial in Shenzhen, the ICA in London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid ...
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 ...
Aventurin, Annabelle
°1991 - France. Lives and works in ParisAnnabelle Aventurin est chargée de la conservation et de la diffusion des archives de Med Hondo à Ciné-Archives (fonds audiovisuel du PCF et du mouvement ouvrier). En 2021, elle a coordonné, en collaboration avec le Harvard Film Archive, la restauration de West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979) et de Sarraounia (Med Hondo, 1986) ...
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 ...
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 ...
