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The City Collection: IN/SIGHT

Actors (37)

Panamarenko
The Belgian artist Panamarenko (pseudonym of Henri Van Herwegen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1955 to 1960 but just as
Marcel Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers (1924, Brussels – 1976, Cologne) is one of the most intriguing artists of the twentieth century. Since his death many have
Walter Swennen
Walter Swennen: an ominous smile on canvas Walter Swennen is a pioneer of the 'new painting' of the 1980s. His paintings are a precise p
Ann Veronica Janssens
Ann Veronica Janssens mainly does site-specific works. She is neither sculptor nor architect. Taking a specific space as her starting point,
Stephen Willats
Stephen Willats is a conceptual artist who has pioneered ideas about the role and position of art since the 1960s, tackling themes that remai
Marthe Wéry
Marthe Wéry is undoubtedly one of the major Belgian artists of the second half of the 20th century. In 2001, following a retrospective at Boz
Yayoi Kusama
Well known for her use of dense patterns of polka dots and nets, as well as her intense, large-scale environments, Yayoi Kusama works in a va
Raoul van den Boom
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Nel Aerts
Nel Aerts lives and works in Antwerp. She makes drawings, paintings and collages, in a playful and colourful style, in which diverging traces
Fia Cielen
Fia Cielen: magic and wildness Fia Cielen earned her MFA from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2008. She currently lives and
Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese, born in Japan, is a German painter, sculptor, and exuberant performer whose installations could be described as gesamtkunstwe
Philippe Van Wolputte
Philippe Van Wolputte graduated from Sint-Lucas in Antwerp in 2006, after which he resided in Amsterdam from 2007 until 2010 for advanced tra
Nadia Naveau
Nadia Naveau: playful confusion Nadia Naveau studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Antwerp and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in A
Otobong Nkanga
Otobong Nkanga studied at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She obtained her
Adrien Tirtiaux
Adrien Tirtiaux graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve as an architect-civil engineer in 2003. That same year, he enrolle
Mathieu Verhaeghe
Before Mathieu Verhaeghe (1986) studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he earned a Master of Philosophy from the University of A
Guy Woueté
Guy Woueté: freedom installations Guy Woueté grew up in Doubla, Cameroon's largest city, where he studied sculpture and painting. He late
Charline Tyberghein
Charline Tyberghein: wordplay on canvas Painter Charline Tyberghein graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2018. Tha
Mashid Mohadjerin
Mashid Mohadjerin: silent protests Mashid Mohadjerin is an Iranian-Belgian photojournalist and visual artist. She graduated from the Acad
Imge Özbilge
Imge Özbilge (°1987, Austria) has lived successively in Austria, Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands. She resides in Antwerp since 2014. After
Cindy Wright
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Bendt Eyckermans
Bendt Eyckermans studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, graduating in 2016. As a child, he was artistically influence
Pélagie Gbaguidi
Pélagie Gbaguidi was born in Dakar, Senegal, but has Beninoise roots. Gbaguidi graduted from th École des Beaux-Arts Saint-Luc in Liege in 19
Hana Miletić
Croatian artist Hana Miletić (1982, Zagreb) lives in Brussels and works in part in Zagreb. She successively studied Art History at the VUB an
Özge Akarsu
Özge Akarsu studied Law and Philosophy in Istanbul. Afterwards, she moved to Belgium. She began a PhD on Spinoza and modernity at the Univers
Martin Margiela
If you hope to discuss his visual work, sidestepping Martin Margiela’s groundbreaking work as a fashion designer is a fool’s errand. Margiela
Ignace Cami
Ignace Cami is an artist that gives obsolete things renewal. Playing with the notion of ‘heritage’, he questions its place as being part of t
Moataz Alqaissy
Moataz Alqaissy: contemporary faded glory The Iraqi visual artist Moataz Alqaissy (Baghdad, °1986) has lived in Antwerp since 2009, where he

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