Aanwinsten 2016 [Acquisitions 2016]
Actors (19)
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Robert Filliou
"L’art est ce qui rend la vie plus intéressante que l’art" - Robert Filliou Robert Filliou was a French neo-Dadaist also involved in the
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Panamarenko
The Belgian artist Panamarenko (pseudonym of Henri Van Herwegen) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp from 1955 to 1960 but just as
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Babi Badalov
Babi Badalov (°1959) was born in the Azerbaijan city of Lerik. After completing his studies at the Art Academy, he moves to Leningrad, today'
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Daniël Dewaele
"Daniël Dewaele has been an active member of the Belgian arts scene since at least the early seventies, and quite early on became involved, o
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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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Timothy Segers
Children of the Turko-Tatar populations of Central Asia are told a myth about where the stars come from: they are told that birds punctured t
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Kati Heck
Kati Heck uses the great diversity of imagery provided by the history of art to express her personal world of experience and imagination. Hec
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Danny Devos
Danny Devos (°1959) lives in Antwerp but carries out his artistic endeavours the world over. Since 1979 he has carried out 160 performances i
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Sarenco
Sarenco is the pseudonym of northern Italian poet and artist Isaia Mabellini, who during his versatile artistic career is both gallery owner
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Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese, born in Japan, is a German painter, sculptor, and exuberant performer whose installations could be described as gesamtkunstwe
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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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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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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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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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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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Vika Begalska
Victoria Begalskaya (also Vika Begalska) is originally from Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro), Ukraine. She graduated from the Kharkiv Academy of D