AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp
Actors (25)
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Luc Deleu
Luc Deleu (°1944) calls Antwerp his home. In 1970, just after having graduated from his architectural studies, he founds the T.O.P. office (T
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Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans was born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium. He lives and works in Antwerp. After completing his art training in Brussels, he studied ar
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Gordon Matta-Clark
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) was one of the sons of the famous Chilean surrealist Roberto Echaurren Matta. After studying architecture in N
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Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée (°1954) has been active as an artist since 1979. She portrays casual situations and objects from the everyday world: the street,
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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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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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Stephen Willats
Stephen Willats is a conceptual artist who has pioneered ideas about the role and position of art since the 1960s, tackling themes that remai
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Allan Sekula
Principally working with photography, Allan Sekula is also widely recognised as a filmmaker, writer, teacher and activist. Coming from a back
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Andrea Fraser
Since the 1980s, Andrea Fraser has achieved renown for performances that interrogate social and cultural structures with humour and pathos, a
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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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Imogen Stidworthy
Imogen Stidworthy explores the physical and social impact of the spoken word. She looks at how the use of language affects communication betw
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Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven /...
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK (°1951, Antwerp, Belgium), studied graphic design at the Fine Arts Academy of Antwerp and has been prolific in
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Hugo Roelandt
The Belgian artist Hugo Roelandt (1950-2015) is one of the pioneers of performance art in Belgium in the seventies and eighties. He conscious
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Bart Prinsen
Bart Prinsen (b. 1969) cultivates a particular interest in 'lost' spaces, in overgrowth and chaos. He makes this manifest in installations wh
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Katrin Kamrau
*In my artistic practise I mainly deal with lens based images and question what they tell about social interaction, power structures and the
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George Smits
George Smits was a multi-faceted musician and visual artist. He was a fixture of Antwerp's underground art scene starting in the mid-1960s,
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Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost has developed a highly idiosyncratic and humorously philosophical practice, typically using video, sound, installation, painti
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Sophie Podolski
In just a few years, between 1968 and 1974 until her untimely death at the age of 21, Sophie Podolski produced a remarkable body of writings
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Adrien Tirtiaux
Adrien Tirtiaux graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve as an architect-civil engineer in 2003. That same year, he enrolle
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Alain Ayers
Having investigated the life of Roberto Bolaño for several years, Alain Ayers could be seen as a detective-like figure.
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Mathieu Verhaeghe
Before Mathieu Verhaeghe (1986) studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he earned a Master of Philosophy from the University of A
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Laurie Parsons
Laurie Parsons is an artist whose practices moved between sculpture and social engagement
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet was writer and filmmaker associated with the Nouveau Roman (New Novel) literary movement in France during the 1960s.