°28/06/1980, Bruges, Belgium
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium
Researcher and Professor at School of Arts, KASK, Ghent (Film & media-arts)
Education:
2016-2023: Postdoctoral research – University College Ghent (KASK) / Ghent University (UGent)
2009-2015: PhD in the arts – University College Ghent (KASK) / Ghent University (UGent)
2007-2008: Laureate Higher institute for fine arts, Ghent (HISK)
2000-2004: Master in Audiovisual Art – Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Ghent (KASK)
Solo Exhibitions:
✜ Residu, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE) (2023)
✜ Residu, Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou (BE)(2022)
✜ IMAGE — CAMERA — IMAGE, Out of Sight, Antwerpen (2021 – duo with Esther Shalev Gerz)
✜ Pre-Triënnale Brugge: PLATFORM (2020)
✜ Homeless Movies, Huis van Alijn, Gent (2016)
✜ Le Système des objects, Brugge, (2016)
✜ Archivio Aperto – Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia Bologna (IT) (2016)
✜ 81 dingen waarvan ik dacht dat ik ze vergeten was, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) (2015)
✜ 81 dingen waarvan ik dacht dat ik ze vergeten was, Z33, Hasselt (2015)
✜ OUTNUMBERED, a brief history of imposture: SMAK (BE) (2009)
✜ The Rehearsal Room, FormContent, London, (UK) (2008)
Group Exhibitions (selection):
✜ zijn naam was Austerlitz ,Tale of the Tub, Rotterdam (NL) (2022)
✜ De Poreuze Stad, Triënnale Brugge (2021)
✜ The Image generator, Kunsthal ExtraCity, Antwerpen (2021)
✜ Beste Kunstwereld, … Lichtekooi artspace, Antwerpen (2021)
✜ Gekende woorden, Tielt (2020)
✜ 4’30”, wekelijkse TV rubriek tijdens Denderland TV, Eclips TV. (2020)
✜ Op losse Schroeven, museum Dr. Guislain, Gent (2019)
✜ Saudade: niets bestaat dat niet iets anders aanraakt, Watou (2019)
✜ Elective Affinities V, a collaboration with Ria Verhaeghe, Rijksarchief Brugge (2019)
✜ Kunstroute Muren, Geraardsbergen (2018)
✜ FLIP, About image construction, School of Arts, Gent (2018)
✜ All you need is the lavatory, Croxhapox (2017)
✜ Herzamelen II, Wulffaert Parket, Eeklo (2017)
✜ Herzamelen I, Croxhapox, Gent (2016)
✜ Homeless movies in de stad, Huis van Alijn, Gent (2016)
✜ Heden: Vergeten, VHDG, Leeuwarden (NL) (2015)
✜ Selective Memory: Artists in the archive, Glucksman Gallery, Cork (IE) (2015)
✜ Flashback, meditations on memory, SMAC, Berlin (DE) (2014)
✜ Hansevideoartworks – Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck (DE) (2014)
✜ Archives: déplier l’histoire, L’iselp, Brussels (BE) (2014)
✜ Post Script, International Filmfestival Rotterdam (NL) (2014)
✜ Dublin Doubles, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin (IE) (2013)
✜ Our Memory?, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai (CN) (2013)
✜ Young Belgian Art Prize, Bozar, Brussels (BE) (2013)
✜ La joie de se perdre, Villa de Olmen (Wieze) & D’Apostrof (Meigem) (BE)(2013)
✜ Reality Bites, KIASMA, Helsinki (FI) (2012)
✜ KANAL, Soubry, Roeselare (BE) (2012)
✜ Between Memory and Representation, De Bond, Bruges (BE)(2012)
✜ Nostalgia Machines: David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, R.I. (US)(2011)
✜ Freestate: Oosteroever, Oostende (BE) (2011)
✜ Vergeet ’t maar: Corrosia!, Almere (NL) (2011)
✜ Expanding documentary: de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) (2010)
✜ Zweierlei: Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (CH) (2010)
✜ Manifesta8: Murcia (ES) (2010)
✜ The past is a foreign country: CoCA, Torun, (PL)(2010)
✜ Ename actueel: Hoofdstuk VI, Ename (2009)
✜ 10 + 2 1/2, presentation of the archive of Voorkamer, Voorkamer, Lier (2009)
✜ It’s not for reading. It’s for making, FormContent, London (UK)(2009)
✜ Perché realizzare un’opera quando è così bello sognarla soltanto?, University, Ghent (2008)
✜ In-Flux, la Machine à Eau, Mons (2008)
✜ Found/Gevonden/Trouvé, Voorkamer, Lier (2008)
✜ La conquête du monde par l’ image, Josworld, Brussels (2008)
✜ El manifiesto de Santiago, Centro cultural Matucana 100, Santiago De Chile (CL) (2007)
✜ Underground, Salons voor Schone Kunsten, WARP, Sint-Niklaas (2007)
Publications:
✜ Elective Affinities (published by Editions Menard)
Edition I, a collaboration with Egon Van Herreweghe (Gent)
Edition I, a collaboration between Lara dhont & Egon Van Herreweghe (Mechelen)
Edition III, a collaboration with Peter Morrens (Hasselt)
Edition IV, a collaboration with Batia Suter (Amsterdam)
Edition V a collaboration with Ria Verhaeghe (Brugge)
Edition VI, a collaboration with Dušica Dražić (Antwerpen)
✜ Addenda, AraMER, 2015
Webprojects:
✜ IICADOM.org
✜ 500letters.org
Collaborative projects:
✜ Seven Types of Sea, cine-concert, collaboration with Thomas Smetryns (2023)
✜ Vergeef Ons, Scenography and video for theatre, Toneelhuis Antwerpen, Regie Guy Cassiers (2018)
✜ ForsterHuberHeyne, Scenography for theatre, Cie de Koe, De NWE tijd, Staatstheater Mainz (2017)
✜ MarxKring, a collaboration with Willem de Wolf, Vooruit100, Ghent (2013)
✜ Cinéma invisible: sound collaboration with Heleen Van Haegenborgh. Jürgen de Blonde, Lander Gyselinck,Kristof Roseeuw & Kelly Schacht, Almost Cinema Vooruit Ghent (CD on Entr’acte)
✜ Editions Ménard: publishing house, collaboration with Egon Van Herreweghe (ongoing)
Awards:
2013: Young Belgian Art Prize
2011: Prix Ars Electronica, honorary mention: hybrid art
2010: EHMN: It’s my film competition, Vicenza, Italy
2010: Vierjaarlijkse prijs voor beeldende kunsten van de provincie West-Vlaanderen (premie)
2009: Input/Output: award for fine arts, Bruges
2009: Courtisane festival: winner national competition
2009: AON-award for fine Arts