US-born, Belgium-based Peter Downsbrough is an artist working in the realm of film and videos exploring the backside of our Western society. He does so through silent and poignant observations of architecture, urban environments, language and typography.
Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt focuses on elements that are difficult to perceive without targeted attention, as well as on the scale ratio between the infinitesimal and the infinite. Despite her sometimes high-tech scientific approach, her work displays an intimate feel, both discreet and delicate, more of a development of a question than a real answer, and based on hypothesis rather than assertion.
Feminist short film by the Belgian avant-garde director Agnès Varda.
It reveals the contradictions on the tradition culture role of women and its sex.
Extract from the featured film Panique Au Village.
Delirious film about the stories of Cow-boy, Indian and Cheval. Don’t miss it.
Belgian Conceptual-Surrealist artist Marcel Broodthaers was one of the most peculiar and mysterious characters of 20th century art. He made 50-odd films in his career. In 1967 he made Le Corbeau et le Renard, a seven minute color film that was shown at Knokke, although the selection committee had turned it down.
Belgian Conceptual-Surrealist artist Marcel Broodthaers was one of the most peculiar and mysterious characters of 20th century art. He also made 50-odd films. This one from 1974, the year of his death, depicts a series of pictures and paintings of the North Sea through history.
Jan de Cock is the visible head of a new generation of successful young artists from Belgium. In this video we can see his photographic installation Denkmall 11 at MoMA, a summary of his American Odyssey.
Studio Banana TV interviews architect Carlos Arroyo, one of the most prominent young Spanish architects. He is based in Madrid, where he develops projects of a very varied nature with a special emphasis on sustainable development and research into new forms of housing. Interview realised with the sponsorship of the European University of Madrid.
Paul McCarthy is a notorious American contemporary artist mostly known for his performative work that deals with the dirtiness of pop daily life culture. In the words of Philippe Van Cauteren, director of the SMAK in Ghent, he is the best anatomist of the superficiality of our society.
The project «Happy End» is the result of a remarkable artistic triangle: composer Georges Aperghis, artists Hans Op de Beeck, Bruno Hardt and Klaas Verpoest and a tale by Charles Perrault.