OVERVIEW ARTISTS

Vanhoe, Reinaart

°1972 - Kortrijk (Belgium)

Heiremans, Ronny

°1962 - Heist-op-den-Berg (Belgium). Lives in Brussels.
Heiremans his fascination for space, landscape and architecture is incorporated in this videos and installations, in which the notion of ‘displayment’ plays and important role. The collaborative work with his partner Katleen Vermeir examines the dynamic relation between art, architecture and economy, and its mediation in private and public spheres. ...
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Theys, Koen

°1963 - Brussels (Belgium), lives and works in Brussels
º 1963, lives in Brussels (Belgium). In 1981, hardly twenty years old, Koen Theys started the art collective ‘V-side’ with Dirk Paesmans, while they were both studying fine arts at the Sint-Lukas academy in Brussels. Their interests centred on three themes: eroticism, religion and aggression ...
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D'Haeseleer, Kurt

°1974
° 1974, lives in Brussels (Belgium). The recent work of video artist Kurt D’Haeseleer examines the impact of public space on our everyday reality. In a strategy of ’hidden complexity’, his images reveal his concern with social and architectural themes. Kurt D’Haeseleer studied modern history in Leuven and Vienna, and cinema, video and television in Brussels ...

Van Damme, Philippe

°1965 - Brussel (Belgium)
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Repromotion, Jan De Cock, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

De Cock, Jan

°1976 - Etterbeek. Lives and works in Brussels.
Jan De Cock is renowned for his sculptural installations, which the artist sees as monuments to Modernism. His monumental installations mix often plywood sculptural modules that recall twentieth-century abstraction – formally referring to the modernist and constructivist idioms – with color and black-and-white photographs, video- and film works ...

Christiaens, Xavier

°1963 - Brussels. Lives and works in Brussels (BE)
The self taught film maker Xavier Christiaens conceives his films with uncompromising independence and autonomy, which is rigorous and very demanding towards the medium. This places him in a line along with avant-garde film-makers. An artist without boundaries, he orchestrates the various points of attraction in his films: their writing, framing, editing, sound and direction. ...

Brosens, Peter

°1962 - Leuven (Belgium)

Ho, Tzu Nyen

°1976 - Singapore. Lives and works in Singapore.
Ranging across painting, video, performance, lecturing and writing, Ho Tzu Nyen's work blurs the boundaries between these genres, creating a complex interdisciplinary practice. He works with paintings, drawings, photography, installations and multimedia ...

Leech, Adam

°1973 - San Diego (USA). Lives and works in Brussels.
Adam Leech is a video artist and painter. In his videos, which are more or less static images, he investigates, through the use of his voice, a number of narratives which play on specific moments of psychological and social unease ...

Vanagt, Sarah

°1976 - Brugges (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Sarah Vanagt (1976) 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 ...

Cuomo, Raphaël

°1977 - lives and work in Geneva and Berlin.
Raphaël Cuomo is a Swiss visual artist who performs research at Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands. In recurrent collaborations with artist Maria Iorio he explores basic, sometimes conflicting values of modern-day society and social systems such as states or nations ...

Grimonprez, Johan

°1962 - Roeselaere (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.
Johan Grimonprez is fascinated by the obscurity of divisions between representation and reality, fiction and documentary, private and public, etc. He makes use of the aesthetic strategies of contemporary mass media to explore phenomena such as identification, voyeurism and fatalism ...
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Decostere, Stefaan

°1955 - Kortrijk
° 1955, born in Kortrijk (Belgium), lives in Ostend (Belgium). The work of television artist, publicist, website and installation artist Stefaan Decostere follows various directions, but is always - directly or subversively - bound to a resistance to the media within which he works ...

Tzaig, Uri

°1965 - Kiryat Gat (Israël). Lives in Tel-Aviv.
Ever since Uri Tzaig started out as an artist in the early nineties, he has been engaged in cultural, anthropological and political topics. The artist works with multiple media, using techniques to divert the attention of the viewer and challenge his expectations. In his highly reflective and contextual work the ordinary is mingled with the magical ...