EXTRA MUROS: Visite Herzele – Beyond words
Actors (28)
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Jef Geys
Jef Geys (1934 - 2018) graduated from the Antwerp Art Academy and settled in Balen, in the Kempen region, where he worked as an art teacher a
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Vyacheslav Akhunov
The oeuvre of artist, writer and philosopher Vyacheslav Akhunov comprises abstract paintings, installation, performance and video art, as wel
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Leo Copers
Leo Copers has built up a varied oeuvre of sculptural work, installations and performances since the late sixties. The starting point is an e
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Luc Deleu
Luc Deleu (°1944) calls Antwerp his home. In 1970, just after having graduated from his architectural studies, he founds the T.O.P. office (T
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Léa Lublin
Argentine artist Léa Lublin belongs to a long list of cultural producers and intellectuals who, for most of the sixties and seventies, decide
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Danny Matthys
Danny Matthys’s oeuvre comprises diverse media such as photography, installation, video, painting, assemblage and sculpture. In his works he
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Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (°1941) is often referred to as one of the founding figures of contemporary art. He is the eternal novice, leaping from one type
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Paul Van Hoeydonck
Paul Van Hoeydonck (1925, Belgium, lives in Antwerp) co-founded the G58 group in Antwerp, which organises a series of exhibitions at the Hess
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Charif Benhelima
Charif Benhelima was born in Brussels in 1967. He studied photography at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, HISK in Antwerp and the Interna
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Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée (°1954) has been active as an artist since 1979. She portrays casual situations and objects from the everyday world: the street,
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Koen van den Broek
In his paintings, Koen Van den Broek investigates the human experience of the environment. His paintings are readily recognizable. They are d
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Fred Bervoets
As a painter, graphic artist and teacher, Fred Bervoets (b. 1942) is a living legend in the Antwerp art scene. Artistically, he is a man of e
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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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Honoré δ'O
The oeuvre van Honoré δ'O consists of sculptures, assemblages and chain-reactions. It is many-facetted to say the least, and always in motion
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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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Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck determines the ultimate medium of his work through a search for the most effective presentation of an idea. Hitherto, his oe
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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
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Ana Torfs
Visual artist Ana Torfs was born in Belgium in 1963. The relation or tension between text/language and image plays a central role in Torfs' w
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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,
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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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Sven 't Jolle
Sven 't Jolle was born in 1966 in Antwerp, where he studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1986 to 1990. Although his first exhib
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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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Martin Arnold
Martin Arnold has been making experimental films since 1988. He studied psychology and art history at the University of Vienna, and his films
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Richard Baquié
Richard Baquié’s oeuvre is constituted from an assemblage of different elements: iron, words, photos, sounds, glass and motors. Using these a
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Bill Woodrow
From 1967 to 1972 Bill Woodrow studied at different art academies in London – having Anthony Caro as one of his teachers – and together with
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Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, but her family is of Palestinian origin. In 1975, during a visit to Great Britain, civil war broke out in Leb
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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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Hans Eijkelboom
Amsterdam-based photographer Hans Eijkelboom belongs to a generation of artists who, in the late sixties and early seventies, were both witne