Anna Manubens is the director of Hangar, a center for artistic research and production in Barcelona and a professor at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian.
Previously she was an independent curator and producer with a preference for hybrid roles at the intersection between writing, research, programming, project accompaniment, institutional analysis and exhibitions. Until 2017 she was Head of Public Programs at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and previously combined her freelance activity with teaching at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a regular job at the artist-run Auguste Orts (Brussels) dedicated to the production of, and thinking around, artists’ films. With them she directed the European project On & For production designed to facilitate the realization of audiovisual works through the implementation of new frameworks and professional exchange.
Her recent exhibitions include Luz Broto, Ponerse en el lugar del otro (Museu de Granollers, 2021-22), A L I E N T O (NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, 2020-2021); Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Tono lengua boca (Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, 2019 and Centre d’Art Contemporani Fabra i Coats, 2020); Alex Reynolds: Safe, Safe, safe, the pulse of the house beat softly (La panera, Lleida, 2020); entre, hacia, hasta, para, por, por, según, sin (EACC, Castellón, 2019); Visceral Blue (La Capella, Barcelona, 2016); Hacer cuerpo con la máquina: Joachim Koester (Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, 2016) and Contours of the Audiovisual with Soledad Gutiérrez (Tabakalera, San Sebastián, 2015).
She was artistic director of the LOOP festival in the 2011 and 2012 editions and with Hamaca developed Apología/Antología, an online editorial project that analyzes and gives access to 60 years of art in film and video in the Spanish state.
He has written in several catalogs and magazines about production or about the work of artists such as Luz Broto, Lucía C. Pino, Laida Lertxundi, Pauline Julier, Alex Reynolds, Adrian Schindler or Wendelien van Oldenborgh.

Last update: 11th November, 2022

Carolina Olivares, had a traveller childhood and youth, living in Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Managua (Nicaragua), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Philadelphia (New Jersey, USA) and London (UK). Studied scenic arts at Universidad ARCIS in Santiago, Chile and in 1995 created in the city of Valdivia (Chile) the first contemporary art gallery of the city. After moving to Barcelona in 1998, became the co founder of the independent structure KBB (Kültur Büro Barcelona), which co directed from 2004 until 2008, where numerous projects were made. In 2008 until now she create CO producciones, an independent platform of production and management of artistic projects and cultural events. CO producciones does the executive production, the creation and direction of work teams and the logistic coordination of cultural manifestations in a national and international level: exhibitions, musical and audiovisual productions, performances, festivals, award ceremonies, debates… To this day, CO producciones has collaborated with diverse artistic institutions, such as Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico, DF), FAD (Foment de les Arts Decoratives) Barcelona, Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Santiago, Chile), Musée du Jeu de Paume (Paris, France), Fundação Bienal Mercosul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Centre d’Art la Panera (Lleida, Spain), ARGOS center for art and media (Brussels), CNAP – Comission
Image/Mouvement (France), ARTE (La Lucarne (FR/GR) FNGAP (France), The Bronx Museum of the Arts (NYC) MANIFESTA, LOOP (Barcelona) Anna Sanders Films, FID Marseille, among others.

May 5th, 2016

Alyssa Decq (1989) holds a Master’s degree in Adult Educational Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) and in Culture Management (University of Antwerp). Nowadays, Alyssa is working for Contour Mechelen as a Production and Public Mediation Manager.
Contour Mechelen is an International Biennale and Art Organisation. It offers a platform for curators and artists working with different forms of moving image. The biennial is organized in Mechelen, Belgium and stimulates a dialogue between contemporary art and the city. In between the biennials, Contour also initiates and produces public projections and installations. Natasha Ginwala will curate the 8th edition of Contour (March 11- March 21 2017, www.contour8.be).

Born in 1974 in Ankara, Arda developed an interest in computers and rock’n’roll music when he was in secondary school. Commodore, Amiga, 8086 processors… He studied electronics/computer science in high school, dropped out of two universities ­Anadolu University, Tourism Department and Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of Archeology/Restoration­ to be a musician. In 1999, he settled down in Istanbul that he had been commuting to play guitar. He worked on sound technology for a while, took an interest in video­animation­s and started making videos in 2004, realized numerous live video performances for many international musicians and festivals; contributed/directed concert DVDs, music videos and commercials for human­hungry companies. Today, Arda continues producing 2D and 3D animations, stop­motion, synthesized sounds & images, live video performances using photography, video and interactive media and travel to many exhibitions and art fairs.

Charlotte Lagro lives and works in the Netherlands. She won the Hermine van Bers Fine Art Award in 2015. Charlotte was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, USA, and RAVI in Liège, Belgium. Currently she is a resident at the department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. Charlotte participated in numerous group exhibitions and has had solo exhibitions at CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium and Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Belgium.

She participated in group exhibitions in the Bonnefantenmuseum – Maastricht, Netherlands, SHUNCK* – Heerlen, Netherlands, Format Art Space – Copenhagen, Denmark, Officielle Art Fair – Paris, France among others. Charlotte Lagro is represented by Galerie Nadja Vilenne.

She will present a new solo project at the Biennial of Photography Liège in August 2016.

Las update 5th May, 2017.

Eleni Kamma studied at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London (MA) and the Athens School of Fine Arts (BA). In 2008/2009 she was a Fine Art Researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.

Recent solo exhibitions: In Fact What Do You See Behind this Curtain?, Art Seen Projects, Nicosia, Oh, for some more Amusement!, Netwerk, Aalst, P Like Politics, P Like Parrots, Macedonian Museum, Thessaloniki, From Bank to Bank on a Gradual Slope, NAK Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen. Her work has been included in the 2015 Thessaloniki Biennial, the 2008 International Moscow Young Biennial and the 2007 International Istanbul Biennial.

Kamma received the Lissone Award in 2007 and the NAK Young Art Prize (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) in 2012.

Kamma is currently a PhD candidate at Leiden University and a member of the artist platform Jubilee, Brussels. She lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht.

Elias Heuninck, Director, studied media art at the School of Arts in Ghent. He got interested in the use of a contemporary form of the landscape-image for various experiments. His works often involve different media, but they always touch on the material of film and the notion of cinema. He gently disorients the audience by changing the perspective in space, on paper, or in a digital data file.

May 30th, 2016

Responsible for international relations for visual arts at the Flanders Arts Institute, a sector institute advocating and promoting the visual arts, performing arts and music scene in Flanders, Belgium. She holds an Master’s in Literature from the Free University of Brussels and a Master’s in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London. From 2004 to 2006, she worked as project coordinator for several artistic organisations a.o. the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, BOZAR – Center for Fine Arts and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. From 2006 to 2011, she was the coordinator of the Réseau des Arts à Bruxelles, a Brussels based cultural network. In March 2011, she was appointed international relations officer atBAM, the Flemish Institute for Visual, Audiovisual and Media Art, which is part of Flanders Arts Institute since January 2015.

The Middle East, countries that are not internationally recognized, radioactive or forbidden zones considered as “involuntary natural parks” are all territories that Louis-Cyprien Rials has traveled or inhabited. The artist, born in Paris in 1981, uses video and photography to present a silent, sometimes mystical image of these areas marked by past violence or agitated by major conflicts. These moving pictures composed of fixed shots, often long and devoid of human presence, tell of the impossibility of capturing these abandoned and transformed spaces, impregnated with beliefs and strewn with stigmata.

Performance artist Mamela Nyamza born in Gugulethu, Cape Town started ballet there at the age of 8 at Zama Dance School. Nyamza went on to acquire a National Diploma in Ballet at the Pretoria Technikon while also expanding into Contemporary, African and Pantsula Dance (and later directing a Hip Hop Dance Theatre). Being scholarshiped in 1998 to stellar Alvin Alley American Dance Centre in New York moved her away from ballet understudy to world­renowned star. Her distinction in choreography and performance led to her winning the South African Standard Bank Young Artist Award in Dance 2011, several other awards followed. Nyamza has been lead dancer in many major international dance musicals such as African Footprints, the Lion King and We Will Rock You. Nyamza has gone on to choreograph and perform in several autobiographical works, the first being Hatched in 2008; Kutheni, Shift, Isingqala, Umendi, The Meal, 19­Born 76­Rebels and Wena Mamela followed. These works have been performed at International Dance Festivals through out Africa, Asia, the United States, Canada and Europe. Nyamza recently collaborated with Nelisiwe Xaba to create The Last Attitude. In 2016 she performed in front of the collaborative film she made with Robyn Denny Hatched 2015 at Gallery MOMO Cape Town.

Maxime Rossi received a Master’s Degree from Ecole Nationale des Beaux­Arts de Lyon, France (DNSEP) after studying fine arts at Concordia University in Montréal and Psychology at Université Catholique Lyon. Rossi presented his film Real Estate Astrology at Centre Pompidou. Sister Ship, 2015 was recently screened at Palais de Tokyo as well as inside his expanded cinema experience at Halles des Boucher, Vienne, curator Marc Bembekoff. His previous solo exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo and Galerie Edouard Manet, and group shows at Fondation Croy Belgium, Fondation François Schneider France, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Palais de Tokyo, Le Minotaure, Las Centrale for Contemporary Art Belgium, Galeries des Galeries Paris and S.M.A.K Belgium. His work is held in public collections CNAP and Artothèque Villeurbanne, and upcoming exhibitions and screenings include Musée d’ethnographie de Genève and Museo MADRE.

Pieter Geenen (1979) lives and works in Brussels. After his Masters degree in Photography he finished the international postgraduate program Transmedia at Sint-Lukas Brussels. In his audiovisual work he shows interest in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape. He looks for ways to translate the ambiguity of the geo-political reality into reflections on the concepts of imperialism, borders, migration, identity, belonging and land. His work has been presented at the International Film Festivals of Rotterdam, New York and Hong Kong, VIDEOEX Zürich, Images Festival Toronto, EXiS Seoul, FID Marseille, Les Rencontres Internationales, M-Museum Leuven, La Capella Barcelona, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Centre Pompidou Metz and Médiathèque FMAC Geneva. Geenen received the Input/Output Art Prize in 2007 and the first prize “Fondation Henri Servais”; of the Art&; Contest Art Prize in 2011. His latest solo exhibition “This land is my land. This land is your land”; was presented at ARGOS Brussels in 2015. Together with artists Sirah Foighel Brutman, Eitan Efrat and Meggy Rustamova he is a founding member of Messidor, a platform for reflection, production and distribution.

Robyn Denny, since the mid 1990’s, has been migrating intensively and extensively through several mediums: painting and drawing; videography; curating, and narrative filmmaking. Denny majored in painting at Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town then she attained a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College in London, where she graduated primarily in video art at the turn of the millennium. Denny co­curated JUNCTURE in London and Cape Town in 2001, the critically renowned group show, and created her own video­installation for it – Earth, Air, Fire, Water. This led to Denny studying film making at the New York Film Academy in London. Her short film Green Mandala won official selection to the Palm Springs and the Durban International Film Festival. She returned to painting with a solo exhibition of large black works: INK PAINTINGS Underground at The Hudson in 2007, followed by her studio exhibition in 2010 and Beasts of Burden at the AVA in 2013 and Lovell Gallery in 2014. In 2016 her collaborative film with Mamela Nyamza Hatched 2015 was exhibited at Gallery MOMO Cape Town.