Photography in Brussels

During the program you will be coached by a diverse and enthusiastic team of teachers. Their strength is that they themselves are active as photographers or visual artists, and/or researchers in these fields. For example, Els Opsomer participates in the Visite Film Festival in Het Bos, Antwerp, on November 26, 2020, and in April 2021 she will have a residency at the Frans Masereel Center where she will work on part of her doctoral project "I see, I see what you don't see - About the visible invisible at the time of 'global' terrorism." In the fall of 2021, in collaboration with Wiels, she will organize the symposium "Critical (Re)positions. About the Implicit Consequences of (Undesired) Heritage". Ana Torfs had a solo exhibition at Bozar in Brussels in 2020, with four new installations. She is now preparing a solo exhibition that will take place at MUAC, Mexico City (September 4, 2021 - February 27, 2022). She was also invited to the group exhibition "The Porous City", in the framework of the 3rd Triennial of Bruges (May 8 - September 26, 2021). Aglaia Konrad is working on a new book, Japan Works, to be published by ROMA Publications. Danny Veys is showing work in the exhibition "De koolwasserij van Beringen, verleden, heden en toekomst" in June-July 2021 at the Industriemuseum Gent. Wendy Morris has established a three-year collaboration with Netwerk Aalst as part of her project "Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recovering a Herbal for a 17th century midwife at the Cape." Her work is on display there from 12/12/20 to 13/3/21 in the exhibition “No one would have believed - Personne n'aurait cru”. Work by Hana Miletić is on view this year in the collection presentation "An unfinished symphony. Polyphony in the collection" of Mu.Zee in Ostend, and in the group exhibitions "wir blumen: The lightness of the fragile. Works From the Schürmann Collection" at Kunstverein Hannover in Germany, "In Stitches" at Larsen Warner, Stockholm (Sweden), "The 3rd Industrial Art Biennial (IAB): Ride into the Sun" in Hungary, and "Riga Notebook. Following the Lines of Wacław Szpakowski" at Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (Poland). Liesbeth Decan is collaborating with Hana Miletić and Greet Billet on the research project "Tapta Unraveled," which will result in an exhibition at Arton Foundation in Warsaw, Poland in the fall of 2021. Sarah Van Marcke has a solo exhibition at Concertgebouw, Bruges this year; Sine Van Menxel is participating in a group exhibition at KIOSK, Ghent; and Dries Segers has his solo exhibition "No Road to Hotel Bellevue” at DMW gallery in Antwerp.

In addition to lecturers Liesbeth Decan, Jan Theo de Jager, Aglaia Konrad, Hana Miletić, Wendy Morris, Els Opsomer, Dries Segers, Ronny Smedts, Els Opsomer, Mitja Tušek, Kris Van Beek, Sarah Van Marcke, Sine Van Menxel, Maarten Vanvolsem and Danny Veys, you will also get to know visiting artists and curators during lectures, studio visits, portfolio viewings and workshops.

This academic year's guest lecturers include Joachim Ben Yakoub, Sofia Caesar, Bert Danckaert, Toma Muteba Luntumbue, Maria Teresa Mendes Flores, Dirk Pültau, Ive Stevenheydens en Soraya Vasconcelos.