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Alexander Levene
Brussels, Belgium; Bedford, United KingdomI am a UK-based, queer male Creative Producer, community arts manager and spoken word artist. I work across forms and settings, to curate, produce and create events that engage under-represented communities in performance arts projects. The background aim to all my projects is to create a more inclusive atmosphere for minority groups to engage...
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Amber Bloos
Amsterdam, Netherlands; Gent, BelgiumAmber Bloos (1992, NL) studied Cultural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. She began at Company New Heroes as an intern internationalization, during that period she wrote her thesis: ‘Why we need New Heroes now, Company New Heroes and their project “In Search of Europe” placed in the era of meta-modernism’. After ...
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An Vandermeulen
Brussels, BelgiumI’m born in the countryside, but mentally raised in an activist city life. I’m living in Brussels for 10 years, after a 7 years study of linguistics & literature on the one hand and arts (performance & sculpture) on the other hand in Ghent, Brussels & Berlin. During my educational life, I developed a passion for - &lsqu...
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Anouk Froidevaux
Lisbon, Portugal; Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumI am a Canadian-Swiss professional dance artist, performing across Europe and internationally for 16 years. I have worked transnationally in Europe, collaborating with local communities through performances and experiential workshops. In 2003, I received my Dance Individual Study Bachelor at Codarts, Rotterdam. Since 2009, I am part of Berlin-...
View full profile →Barbara Van Lindt
Antwerp, BelgiumI am currently reshaping my professional practice outside of an institutional frame. After working for, in, and on behalf of institutions, I decided to leave and re-orientate myself. Educated in philosophy and theatre studies, I have gained experience as a producer and curator, mostly in positions of artistic (and sometimes general) leadership...
View full profile →Carine Meulders
Antwerp, BelgiumMy name is Carine Meulders. I studied Sociology of Religion and Culture at the University of Leuven, where I worked for a couple of years as a researcher in the field between anthropology, sociology and history. In 1996 I became a programmer in Beursschouwburg (Brussels). Together with the other members of the team I developed and real...
View full profile →Delphine Demont
Paris, France; Bruxelles, BelgiumI'm the choreographer of Acajou; I don’t have an academic background: I'm graduated of both literature and Notation Laban and I started dancing as a professionnal quite late, after my studies. I became a professionnal within my own research, questionning the hierarchical organization of our perceptions and asking what would happen if we ...
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Dirk De Wit
Brussels, BelgiumDirk De Wit (°1960) is works on visual arts and coordinates international relations of the Flanders Arts Institute. From 2003 to 2014, Dirk De Wit was coordinator of the digital platform of BAM – Institute of Visual arts and became director of BAM in 2007. Before, Dirk De Wit worked as a free-lance curator for Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Cent...
View full profile →Duo LarbitsSisters (Bénédicte Jacobs and Laure-Anne Jacobs)
Brussels, BelgiumSince 2010 social media researcher Bénédicte Jacobs and media artist Laure-Anne Jacobs form the artist duo LarbitsSisters. The work of Brussels-based duo is situated at the crossroads of art, technology and social systems. Their collaboration grew out of a shared fascination on new media, merging research and artistic practice on...
View full profile →Einat Tuchman
Brussels, BelgiumI grew up in Israel in a kibbutz, both influenced my artistic development. I Studied in Rotterdam-Codarts. I danced for different choreographers such as Alain Platel - Belgium, Orla Bary -Ireland and more. In 2000 I started to create my own choreographies. I examined through dance and speech different social codes and behaviors. I worked with ...
View full profile →Esther Gouarné
Brussels, Belgium; Rouen, FranceI am both a performer and an academic. I did a phD about contemporary collectives and creative processes in the Dutch-speaking theater. I first went to Belgium to nuance and contextualize the notion of "Flemish Wave" used since the 1980s. And to see what was happening on Belgian stages twenty years later. That drove me to go to the Netherlands...
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Evi Swinnen
Gent, BelgiumEvi Swinnen, 1977, Diest (B), coordinator and founder of Timelab, Ghent since 2010. She introduced the first makerspace in Belgium as an experimental environment for open source and shared knowledge projects. Combining with an international art residency project, the knowledge developed in open source and open ended communities could function ...
View full profile →Flanders Arts Institute
Brussels, Belgium 3 peopleFlanders Arts Institute is an expertise centre for the arts from Flanders and Brussels. It is the contact point for foreign art professionals in search of information on the arts in Flanders. To stimulate international exchange between artists, art professionals and policy-makers, FAI is active in three main areas. Analysis & research of t...
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Gosie Vervloessem
Brussels, BelgiumMy artistic practice is research based. There are outcomes, presentations of the research, but I never create products that can be re-created as they are. My work is about sowing questions and bringing people together around these questions through different formats. Recipes for Disaster is an ongoing research that focuses on classific...
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Helga Baert
Brussels, Belgium; Antwerp, BelgiumSince 2006 I’m active as an artworker in the independent performance scene. I’ve collaborated with many independent artist and organizations in the past years in Brussels and Europe and was part of several transnational projects. In 2008 I funded Mokum, a production & management platform for independent artist. In 2010 ...
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Ingrid Vranken
Brussels, Belgium; Amsterdam, NetherlandsAfter completing my masters in Theatre Studies at the University of Antwerp and Freie Universität Berlin, I worked as a dramaturg and producer. Rethinking collaborations and the ethics of artistic production has been a red thread throughout my work. As a past core member of Bâtard Festival (a volunteer run festival focussing on emer...
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Joris Janssens
Brussels, BelgiumJoris Janssens is Head of Research and Development at Kunstenpunt/Flanders Arts Institute, the Institute for the development of music, visual arts and performing arts in Flanders and Brussels. Before that, he was director and researcher at VTi (Institute for the Performing Arts in Flanders) and researcher at KU Leuven, where he holds a Ph.D on...
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Jorre Vandenbussche
Gent, BelgiumI am Jorre Vandenbussche (°1975, Belgium). I graduated in 1997 as an actor at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp (Dora Van der Groen). Throughout my career I worked as an actor for larger and smaller theatre companies in Flanders-Belgium and Holland, and I made my own theatrework both for youth and adults. I also teach at KASK Drama...
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JUBILEE; Caveat
Brussels, BelgiumJubilee is a platform for artistic research and production that offers continuous support for the work of six artists, while hosting other art workers on a project base instigated by the platform's collective research. Jubilee focuses on the production of the work of the member artists: Justin Bennett, Eleni Kamma, Vincent Meessen, Jasper Rigo...
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K.A.K. (Koekelbergse Alliantie van Knutselaars)
Brussels, BelgiumOne day we build a Travel agency in Molenbeek, Brussels, the other day we play the wheel of fortune in a social neighborhood while shouting through a megaphone the people out of their houses. To understand well the work of K.A.K., two philosophical concepts are important: 'Public sphere' and 'heterotopia'. According to Habermas, the id...
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Kai Lossgott
Antwerp, BelgiumAs an Afro-german artist (born in Germany in 1980, raised in South Africa, currently living in Belgium), my life has been shaped by transnational identity and creative class challenges. I spent the past 5 years living out of a suitcase between international residencies. After 3 years working on the Creative Europe IPIP project part-time (see b...
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Katrien Reist
Brussels, BelgiumSince my studies at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, I tried to instrumentalise my role as an artistic thinker to facilitate the art of others. The particular way artists fulfil this role is crucial to me. Concerned with practical and theoretical reflections around the role of the artistic voice within society, I developed an engaged practic...
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Kunsthal Gent
Gent, BelgiumKunsthal Gent is a new presentation and development platform for visual art in a monumental 13th-centrury monastery in the centre of Ghent, Belgium, that opened its doors in January 2019. Kunsthal Gent is a collective experiment, both in its organisational model and in its artistic programme, thinking outside of the existing hierarchies and se...
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Laure Deselys
London, United Kingdom; Brussel, Belgium; Geneva, Switzerland; Ramallah, Palestine; Berlin, Germany; Beirut, LebanonWorking under different spellings, Laure Deselys is an artist, cultural practitioner and researcher who works collaboratively with words, lenses, multi-definitions of space, their users and inhabitants. She studied Art, Philosophy and Visual Culture in disorder at La Cambre and Université Libre in Brussels , Académie Libanaise de...
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Lies Vanborm
Ghent, BelgiumI graduated as a Master in Theatre Sciences at Ghent University in 2000. For the last 20 years I've been working as a creative producer for individual artists (Alexandra Bachzetsis, Christine De Smedt, Miet Warlop, 2 Many Dj's,...), festivals (Brugge 2002, Lille 2004, Filmfestival Ghent, Timefestival Ghent, Dour Festival,...), Art organization...
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Maja Kuzmanović
Brussels, BelgiumMaja Kuzmanović is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, writer, speaker and process facilitator with a fondness for contemplation, cultivation and futurecrafting. Maja founded FoAM as a department of Starlab in 2000. Maja's role at FoAM, her particular approach to people and technology has been recognised by the MIT's Technol...
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Marine Thévenet
Lille, France; Brussels, BelgiumArtist led organisation, L’Amicale is a cooperative platform of live projects. We create and produce performances and live installations. We always thought content and form iterative to each others: in art projects as much as in the organisation itself, convinced that the producing tool as an influence to the creation itself. Created in ...
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Melih Gencboyaci
Amsterdam, Netherlands; The Hague, Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Istanbul, Turkey ; Brussels, BelgiumMelih Gencboyaci, was born 1977 in Germany. While studying economics and acting in Turkey. Later, he studied at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Mime departement in The Netherlands. Since 2008, he has been an active member of fruitful and tender collaborations: Schwalbe and Copycats. He was one of the co-founders and engaged in developi...
View full profile →Natalia Skobeeva
London, United Kingdom; Niuewpoort, BelgiumMA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK Ma History, State University, Russia Recent completed projects: opera ‘Shibboleths’ (visuals, libretto and sound) for 2018 Shiryaevo Biennale, Russia, in collaboration with 3 local artists, and ‘The UnNational Monument’, a public sculpture on Giffin square and ...
View full profile →Nico Dockx
Antwerp, BelgiumNico Dockx lives and works in Antwerp. His work starts from a fundamental interest in archives and structural processes such as data, memories, information, distribution and management. Results of collaboration with other artists, installations, publications, texts and videos often investigate the relationship between perception and me...
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Robbert&Frank Frank&Robbert
Ghent, BelgiumAfter we graduated with a master’s degree in visual arts from KASK (Ghent, 2012) we have chosen to go through life as the artist duo Robbert&FrankFrank&Robbert. This intense collaboration forms the basis for our artistic practice and symbolizes our vision on friendship, collectivity, interplay and knowledge sharing. Together, we ...
View full profile →Sara Vertongen
BelgiumBorn in Italy from a Belgian father and British mother, Sara has been working in radio and theatre since the age of 14. She is now part of the artistic crew of Belgian award-winning music theatre company Het nieuwstedelijk (translates as New Urbanicity). Het nieuwstedelijk is the city...
View full profile →Sarah Lauzemis
Barcelona, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumI was born in Brussels by a German mother and a Moroccan Father. After a Bachelor in Communication and Journalism, I started my career in 2010 as a cultural worker for Cimatics: a former Digital Arts Festival and Organisation in Brussels. I then rapidly became involved in the European project ECAS – European Cities of Advanced Sound - as...
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Sarah Parolin
Brussels, BelgiumI work as an independent producer in the field of performing arts since 10 years and I joined SPIN in 2014 as production and management support for Kate McIntosh projects. We have been touring and presenting work together ever since. I apply on the name SPIN, as we would like to join the network as a collective of artists and cultural workers....
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Sarah Hendrickx
Antwerp, BelgiumSarah Hendrickx (°1990) obtained her master in Arts and master after master in Artistic Research at the St Lucas University College of Art & Design in Antwerp. Her final thesis dealt with the duality of the human brain and the influence of its left and right impulses on the artist’s creativity. In 2017, Hendrickx started her doct...
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Stef Meul
Brussels, BelgiumSince 2008 I've been active in organizing work spaces for artistic practices - from an alternative approach. After studies at Sandberg institute, Amsterdam and research at Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies, Brussels my practice as performance artist found an interest in Social Choreography - expressed in the startup of the Artist Co...
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Twee-eiige Drieling; TWIIID
Ghent, Belgium; Antwerp, Belgium; Brussels, BelgiumTwee-eiige Drieling (abbreviated as TWIIID) is an advisory firm in the arts dedicated to finding fair, simple, correct and sustainable solutions to legal, business and communication issues within contemporary art practices. We work for individual artists as well as established arts and advocacy organisations. TWIIID consists of two people - Je...
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