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Actors (59)

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  Nicolás Uriburu

  In the late 1960s, Nicolás Uriburu started to question his own practice and its impact on society. Trained as an architect and celebrated as

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  Dirk Braeckman

  "When you reduce everything, it comes straight at you. Sex, death. I know it sounds like a narrow cliché, but you have to dare admit that tha

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  David Claerbout

  David Claerbout is fascinated by the way we observe the world and by the function of our visual memory. He raises questions about how we perc

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  Vaast Colson

  Vaast Colson (°1977, Antwerp, Belgium) studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and obtained a postgraduate degree in Br

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  Raoul De Keyser

  Raoul De Keyser was a painter in the true sense of the word. His oeuvre is the result of a consistent and idiosyncratic study of the medium o

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  Marlene Dumas

  'I am an artist who uses second-hand images and first-hand emotions'. - Marlene Dumas, 1989 Marlene Dumas (°1953) grows up in Cape Town,

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  Joëlle Tuerlinckx

  Joëlle Tuerlinckx (°1958) studies in Brussels at the city’s École de Recherche Graphique. Tuerlinckx’ artistic practice can be summed up as a

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  Timothy Segers

  Children of the Turko-Tatar populations of Central Asia are told a myth about where the stars come from: they are told that birds punctured t

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  Anna Bella Geiger

  Anna Bella Geiger is multi-disciplinary artist and a pioneer in the field of video art, both within and outside of Brazil. Frequent trips to

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  Dieter Roth

  Dieter Roth was a Swiss poet, sculptor, graphic designer and interdisciplinary contrarian who initially started in the tradition of the Roman

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  Marina Abramović & Ulay

  Marina Abramović (°1946, Belgrade, Serbia) and Ulay [Uwe Laysiepen’s pseudonym] (°1943, Solingen, Germany - †2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia) met e

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  Alain Arias-Misson

  Alain Arias-Misson (1936, Belgium, lives in Madrid) is influenced by the happenings of the early 1960s when he returns to Brussels from the U

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  Cady Noland

  Cady Noland was born in 1956 in Washington, DC, and is based in New York. Noland was an important representative of the American Gothic Reviv

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  Martin Kippenberger

  "I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling." - Martin Kippenberger

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  Franz West

  Franz West is a key figure in the revival of the once so influential Viennese art scene. In his work, that is at once impressive and light-fo

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  Christophe Terlinden

  Christophe Terlinden (°1969, Etterbeek, Belgium) has a quite varied oeuvre. He creates photos, videos, cartoons, sound systems, graphics, and

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  Cindy Sherman

  The American photographer and filmmaker Cindy Sherman (°1954) is one of the most important and influential art photographers of the past thir

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  Marlow Moss

  "I am no painter, I don't see form, I only see space, movement and light." (Marlow Moss) Marlow (or Marjorie) Moss (1890-1958) moved in M

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  Luciano Ori

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  Koen Theys

  Belgian visual artist Koen Theys (Brussels, b. 1963) is a key pioneer on Belgium's contemporary video art scene. Having teamed up with his br

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  ORLAN

  ORLAN (°1947) studied painting in the sixties and dived into the French art world with photographic Body Sculptures and performances that foc

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  Jacqueline Mesmaeker

  Belgian visual artist Jacqueline Mesmaeker (°1929) begins her artistic career in the sixties as a fashion designer. She receives her degree f

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  Els Dietvorst

  Els Dietvorst (°1964) is a socially engaged artist, who uses her visual work as a means of creating social involvement. She graduates from th

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  Hans-Peter Feldmann

  "I was asked by a young artist how I would define art. And I replied something like this: somewhere there is a large meadow, and that’s the w

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  Ben

  Benjamin Vautier (b. Napels, 1935), better known as Ben, is a French Fluxus artist born in Italy to an Irish mother and a Swiss father. After

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  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

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  Jan Henderikse

  The Dutch artist Jan Henderikse was born in Delft in 1937 and trained at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Free Academy of Visual Ar

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  Taus Makhacheva

  Between 2002 and 2013 Taus Makhacheva (°1983) follows different education cycles in arts, communication and economy, both in Russia and in En