KUNSTENAARS IN DE KIJKER
Efrat, Eitan
°1983 - Tel Aviv (Israel). Lives and works in Brussels.Eitan Efrat has been collaborating with Sirah Foighel Brutmann for several years, creating works together in the audiovisual field ...
Rustamova, Meggy
°1985 - Tbilisi (Georgia). Lives and works in Brussels and Ghent.Meggy Rustamova (1985, Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Brussels and Ghent. She studied at KASK in Ghent where she obtained her MA in fine art and studied meanwhile for a year at the UdK, (Universität der Künste) in Berlin. Most recently she completed a post academic residency program at HISK, Higher Institute for Fine arts in Ghent, Belgium ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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) ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Cappelle, Justine
°1995 - Lives and works at 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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Van der Auwera, Emmanuel
°1982 - Brussels (Belgium).Emmanuel Van der Auwera (b. 1982, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium ...
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 ...
