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Steven Shearer
Steven Shearer develops an oeuvre of sculptures, photography, paintings and silk-screen prints, which are often shown together in the form of
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Daniel Spoerri
The Swiss visual artist, writer and publisher Daniel Spoerri was born in Romania as Daniel Isaac Feinstein and had a remarkable family histor
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Philippe Van Wolputte
Philippe Van Wolputte graduated from Sint-Lucas in Antwerp in 2006, after which he resided in Amsterdam from 2007 until 2010 for advanced tra
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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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Teresa Burga
Teresa Burga studied painting at the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima. Between 1960 and 1962, she interrupted her studies to accompany
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Hans Clavin
Hans Clavin (pseudonym of Hans H.H.A. van der Heijden) was born in 1946 in the Dutch harbour town of IJmuiden. Clavin, one of the pioneers of
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Tom Liekens
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Kasper Bosmans
‘Art is decoration that makes you cleverer.’ - Kasper Bosmans Kasper Bosmans’s paintings, objects and installations demonstrate that visu
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Ayman Ramadan
Ayman Ramadan moved to Cairo from the countryside when he was 16. He found a job as a security agent and would sleep in the minibuses and car
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Pedro Barateiro
The work of Pedro Barateiro asks questions about what kind of identity an artist can make for himself when he lives and works in an ocean of
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AUGUSTAS SERAPINAS
Augustas Serapinas is interested in the socially engaged and non-material practice of previous generations of artists, such as the one that e
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Donna Kukama
Donna Kukama (°1981) uses performance to make visible the movements, tensions and emotions of contemporary society. To diagnose and perhaps e
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Olga Chernysheva
The oeuvre of Olga Chernysheva is formally refined, combining social critique and subtle humor. In this respect she thus places herself withi
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Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
The Turkish artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (1957-2007) studied aesthetics, sociology, and art history at the universities of Ankara and Paris.
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Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Jean Katambayi Mukendi is a Congolese artist born into an artistic family. Trained as an electrician, he was fascinated by technology, maths,
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Jan De Lauré
Jan De Lauré (°1978, Hasselt, BE) bases his paintings on images sourced from the media; in his own words: they are images that are impossible
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Otobong Nkanga
Otobong Nkanga studied at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She obtained her
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Nikita Kadan / Нікіта Кадан
Nikita Kadan: the beating heart of history (cross-section) Nikita Kadan embarked on an artistic quest from his native Kyiv, charting the
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Aslan Goisum
Aslan Ġoisum (formerly Gaisumov) completed his studies at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Moscow in 2012. As of 2016, he studied a
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Evgeny Antufiev
Evgeny Antufiev was raised in the Siberian republic of Tuva. Inspired by the region’s lingering traces of shamanic practice, Antufiev crafts
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Alevtina Kakhidze / Алев...
Alevtina Kakhidze was born in Eastern Ukraine. She's been living in Muzychi (near Kyiv) since 1995, except for two years that she spent at t
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Evgeny Granilshchikov
Evgeny Granilshchikov (°1985) is a Russian artist, photographer and film director. He grew up in Moscow, where he finishes his studies at the
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Birdhead
Birdhead, consisting of Song Tao (b. 1979) and Ji Weiyu (b. 1980), has been working in the medium of analogue photography since it was establ
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Maryam Najd
Maryam Najd's (°1969) has roots in Tehran, but for the past several years Antwerp has been both her home and workplace. She works both purely
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Peter Wächtler
Peter Wächtler is a storyteller. His works are characterised by dramaturgic components such as melancholy, pathos, ironic or satiric humor, r
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Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost has developed a highly idiosyncratic and humorously philosophical practice, typically using video, sound, installation, painti
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Izmail Efimov
Izmail Efimov, who first emerged as a socialist realist painter in the mid-1970s, is one of the most original ethno-futurist artists. This te