Mathieu Mercier
The starting point: manufactured objects, elements of construction and interior organisation lifted from the field of mass utilitarian production, primary material of works that often echoes the historically referential forms (Suprematism, Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction). […] Filing, arranging, sorting out selectively. Eliminating. But also inhabiting and residing. Finding one’s place, holding one’s place, staying in place. […]
Ronnie van Hout
It often seems that the majority of the artwork presented by Ronnie van Hout is a self-portrait. He is usually there in one form or another, acting in a video as himself or one of his many characters. It could be as a photograph of himself, or a desperate voice on a tape, or even […]
Shiro Masuyama
Shiro Masuyama is an artist who hides in a dark corner to observe popular aspects in life that are hardly ever noticed. His interests are directed to various common phenomena that generally do not matter much in our lives. The viewpoint his work adopts is usually quite simple: for example, he observes what people do […]
Lisa Strömbeck
In the tradition of Nordic Film and literature, such as the films of Ingmar Bergman, there is a focus on the ‘small world’, and its flows of desires and meanings in everyday life. Themes that are recurrent in the video and performance-based artwork of Lisa Strömbeck, whose work is at once intensely private and very […]
Iris van Dongen
The work of Iris van Dongen is always instilled by gloomy romanticism. In recent years she has been producing drawings several meters in height, their sheer size giving them a quality one can hardly escape. Though van Dongen’s work comes about mainly in an intuitive manner, the theme ‘man tormented by demons’ seems to keep […]
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh makes works that pivot out onto the possibility of their reception. Koh’s confidence in the artwork’s ability to add meaning to the world combines what she can reasonably expect to believe about its significance, with a faith in what she cannot know or anticipate about it. […] You are not required to know […]
Kristina Braein
Perhaps another way to describe Bræin’s ingenious commentaries, reactions, and inversions of the main logic of any room is to say that the artist’s installations advocate the out-of-the-question. In the spirit of the impractical, they shed light on the impossible, the invisible, and the unspeakable, which contest the programmed organisation of the surrounding architecture.Bræin’s focus […]
Charif Benhalima
Charif’s book “Welcome to Belgium” (2003) is like a testimony, a diary, or the screenplay of a film, ending with a catharsis in which the personal story is interwoven with the detached, documentary image and in this sense becomes part of a larger history. All this is done without pathos, however. This hybrid form, being […]
Frank Kalero
The idea of launching the initiative Ojodepez arose after Frank Kalero had noticed that his documentary work had generally less opportunities to be published than his other artistic and/or advertising endeavours. The first project of Ojodepez, a non-profit association devoted to promote documentary imagery in all shapes and forms, was to create a magazine that […]
Kerry Tribe
Kerry Tribe’s work in a variety of media explores relationships between subjectivity and representation, often by investigating the grey areas between the authentic and the scripted, or the collective and the idiosyncratic. She regularly invites the unpredictability of collaboration to produce ludic philosophical inquiries through structurally rigorous forms. Tribe approaches her work from a background […]