Biographies
Philippine Hoegen is a visual artist living in Brussels. In her multi-stranded, predominantly performative practice, she explores the ways in which we continuously create versions of ourselves, the apparatuses and processes we use for this and what that means for our understanding of ‘self’. In her work, performance is explicitly approached and activated as a research strategy: a way of thinking in which the physical is involved.
Recent activities include a series of podcasts for and i.c.w. Club Solo in Breda, About The Future and the Artists’ Initiatives (11−12÷2020); a residency in Buda, Kortrijk, with the project Hey You! (06÷07−2020); a series of seven broadcasts called Scores for Isolation, on Onomatopeenet / Instagram Live (04−05÷2020); the presentation of her new book ANOTHER VERSION: Thinking Through Performing, during the Bâtard festival at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels (01÷2020); the solo performance Ventriloquists III followed by a discussion on her research The Self as a Relational Infrastructure in Process (CARADT), at the conference DIS_SEMINAR by Art ≈ Research, Amsterdam (2019).
Hoegen is an active member of State of the Arts, and co-initiator of SOS-Relief (04/2020-present).
Julia Reist holds a master in Artistic Research and has worked on projects bridging the visual arts to dance and performance.
Since 2011, she has been working as a freelance researcher and art producer on a large range of (inter)national projects. In close dialogue with artists, bringing in her specific analytic skills, Julia is specialised in contextualising and formalizing the often still ungraspable elements in early stages of a work or project, to then develop it further and find its specific format / frame or materiality. In 2018 she started, in collaboration with Katrien Reist, the research and production platform arp.works. Through arp they are looking at other forms of working with and through artistic practices to contribute to a more sustainable culture working field.
Julia has worked as a collaborator of artists such as Athi-Patra Ruga (SA), Rossella Biscotti (NL/IT), Luanda Casella (BE/BR), David Weber Krebs (BE), Nastio Mosquito (BE/AO), Philippine Hoegen (NL/BE), amongst others, and as a gallery responsible for DVIR, Brussels. She has co-produced projects and collaborated in different public institutions such as Kunstmuseen Krefeld (Haus Esters), The Darling Foundry, Montreal, FRAC-PACA, Marseille, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, La Bellone, Brussels, Contour Biennale, Mechelen, Enough Room for Space, amongst others.
Miriam Hempel is a visual designer working in the socio-political and the cultural fields. She offers design and communications consultancy both for individuals and institutions, and creates design strategies across print and web.
Through conceiving and developing visual identities, editorial design as well as digital communication solutions, she aims to create bridges between institutions and people, between information and audience, between artistic and activist thinking and the aesthetic requirements of these fields.
She studied at Chelsea College of Art & Design and Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London and recently finished Master in Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts, exploring how typographic elements can become active agents in fostering dialogue and collective thinking processes.
Recent collaborations include the visual identity of the online performance space 1000 Scores. Pieces for Here, Now & Later, the co-conceptualisation and design of the publication Another Version by artist Philippine Hoegen, several visual identities for BOZAR as well as diverse printed publications and the website of the artistic research platform a.pass. She is also collaborating with International NGOs like the Green European Foundation, Crisis Action and Greenpeace.
