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Suchan Kinoshita receives the BelgianArtPrize 2025
Jury Statement “Suchan Kinoshita is a uniquely accomplished artist who has, over many decades, achieved a highly comprehensive and complete oeuvre. The jury’s deep appreciation for her visual language extends to the fact that she is an active and committed … Continue reading
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Els Dietvorst
Els Dietvorst (° 1964, Kapellen, BE) is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Duncormick, Ireland. She uses dialogue, experiment and intuition as her main artistic strategies. Since the nineties, the artist has been moved by social issues such as migration, racism … Continue reading
Els Dietvorst winner of the BelgianArtPrize 2021 edition
‘La Jeune Peinture Belge – De Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst’ is delighted to announce the awarding of the BelgianArtPrize 2021 to Els Dietvorst. The Jury is particularly impressed by the radical way in which Els Dietvorst has developed and built her … Continue reading
LAUNCH OF THE BELGIANARTPRIZE 2020 EDITION
The organizers of the Prize ensure that any form of discrimination, be it racial, ethnic, based on religious beliefs or convictions, sexual orientation or gender, are thwarted at any given stage of the prize’s procedures.
Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys
Jos De Gruyter (°1965) and Harald Thys (°1966) live and work in Brussels. They have been working together as an artist duo since the end of the 1980s, visualising through their numerous artistic approaches, their imaginings of the parallel world … Continue reading
Gabriel Kuri
Gabriel Kuri (°1970) is born in Mexico City, Mexico and lives and works in Brussels. Gabriel Kuri creates visually refined sculptures, collages, installations, and photographs, working from repurposed natural, industrial, and mass-produced objects (insulation foam, shells, soda cans, and stones, … Continue reading
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Koenraad Dedobbeleer (° 1975) lives and works in Brussels. Dedobbeleer creates sculptures, objects, in-situ installations and photographs teeming with associations, tongue-in-cheek commentaries and art historical references. The artist places the focus firmly on everyday objects, which he modifies and recontextualises. … Continue reading
Sven Augustijnen
Sven Augustijnen (°1970) lives and works in Brussels. Augustijnen’s films, publications and installations on political, historical and social themes constantly challenge the genre of the documentary, reflecting a wider interest in historiography and a predilection for the nature of storytelling. … Continue reading
Dieter Roelstraete – member of the curatorial team Documenta 14
Dieter Roelstraete is currently a member of the curatorial team convened by artistic director Adam Szymczyk to organize Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017. From 2012 until 2015 he was the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of … Continue reading