NUCLEUS
Actors (246)
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Anish Kapoor
'I don’t wish to make a sculpture about form… I wish to make sculpture about belief, or about passion, about experience, that is outside of m
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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di
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David Lamelas
The Argentinian artist David Lamelas (°1946, Buenos Aires) is one of the pioneers of the innovations of the 60s and 70s, whereby the status o
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Nicolás Uriburu
In the late 1960s, Nicolás Uriburu started to question his own practice and its impact on society. Trained as an architect and celebrated as
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Carla Arocha
Carla Arocha (°1961, Caracas, Venezuela) has been living in Antwerp with her husband Luc Tuymans for many years now. She has been working wit
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Sven Augustijnen
Sven Augustijnen makes videos and films where he takes a critical look at reality. A reality that we all experience as matter-of-fact but, in
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Fred Bervoets
As a painter, graphic artist and teacher, Fred Bervoets (b. 1942) is a living legend in the Antwerp art scene. Artistically, he is a man of e
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Dirk Braeckman
"When you reduce everything, it comes straight at you. Sex, death. I know it sounds like a narrow cliché, but you have to dare admit that tha
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David Claerbout
David Claerbout is fascinated by the way we observe the world and by the function of our visual memory. He raises questions about how we perc
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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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Manon de Boer
The Dutch artist Manon de Boer makes films, videos, installations, websites and publications. In her portraits De Boer investigates memory an
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Berlinde De Bruyckere
Berlinde De Bruyckere (°1964) makes three-dimensional sculptures, installations and aquarelles. Her older work has a minimalist character. St
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Raoul De Keyser
Raoul De Keyser was a painter in the true sense of the word. His oeuvre is the result of a consistent and idiosyncratic study of the medium o
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Honoré δ'O
The oeuvre van Honoré δ'O consists of sculptures, assemblages and chain-reactions. It is many-facetted to say the least, and always in motion
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Marlene Dumas
'I am an artist who uses second-hand images and first-hand emotions'. - Marlene Dumas, 1989 Marlene Dumas (°1953) grows up in Cape Town,
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Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck determines the ultimate medium of his work through a search for the most effective presentation of an idea. Hitherto, his oe
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Gert Robijns
Gert Robijns makes sculptures, videos and installations. He is interested in the functional yet mondaine aesthetics of the everyday – an insp
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Walter Swennen
Walter Swennen: an ominous smile on canvas Walter Swennen is a pioneer of the 'new painting' of the 1980s. His paintings are a precise p
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Narcisse Tordoir
Narcisse Tordoir (°1954, Mechelen, Belgium) starts his career with experimental performances, alternative actions and spatial installations.
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Ana Torfs
Visual artist Ana Torfs was born in Belgium in 1963. The relation or tension between text/language and image plays a central role in Torfs' w
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Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Joëlle Tuerlinckx (°1958) studies in Brussels at the city’s École de Recherche Graphique. Tuerlinckx’ artistic practice can be summed up as a
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Maarten Vanden Abeele
The visual artist Maarten Vanden Abeele mainly concentrates on photography, but also makes video art and installations. He displays his photo
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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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Ann Veronica Janssens
Ann Veronica Janssens mainly does site-specific works. She is neither sculptor nor architect. Taking a specific space as her starting point,
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Anna Bella Geiger
Anna Bella Geiger is multi-disciplinary artist and a pioneer in the field of video art, both within and outside of Brazil. Frequent trips to
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Maria Thereza Alves
Maria Thereza Alves was born in Brazil and moved to New York at a young age. She has worked for the International Indian Treaty Council in Ne
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Goshka Macuga
Goshka Macuga works as a curator and makes installations that function as 'total artworks'. Using material loaned from both artists and archi
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Enrico David
"I see the potential of the creative process as a representation of a new language to be simultaneously constructed and discovered, on the ba