BIOGRAPHIES
The Post Collective are Mirra Markhaëva, Marcus Bergner, Elli Vassalou, Sawsan Maher, Mohammed Tawfiq, Hooman Jalidi and Kinda Ghannoum.
Mirra Markhaëva (1992° Buryatia) is a visual artist. The range of her skills includes illustration, graphic design, lettering, painting and sculpting, but mostly she’s passionate by creation of murals. She has started her studies in ESA 75 (Brussels) in Graphic Design department but couldn’t graduate due to the fact that she’s stuck in paperless status. Searching for the ways to educate herself anyways she joined Open Design Course and then continued with the Post Collective.
Marcus Bergner is an Australian artist based in Brussels. He is a member of the Australian sound poetry group Arf Arf. He has made over 25 experimental films that have been screened extensively worldwide. Recently with the Belgian artist, Myriam van Imschoot, he presented a series of workshops on sound poetry in institutions in Belgium, France and Portugal. He was awarded a PhD degree in art history in 2009 from Melbourne University.
Elli Vassalou (1983° Greece) is a multimedia artist, activist, researcher and performer. She has studied Architecture and Urbanism in Patras, Greece and Autonomous design at KASK School of Arts, Ghent. She designs participatory platforms, actions and socially engaged projects. She works hybridicly with film-making, photography, movement, sound, discursive and multi-sensorial tools, site specific and archival art. She is seeking for new ways of polyphonic narrating, assembling bodies, spaces and objects in a critical and creative dialogue.
Sawsan Maher is a Syrian researcher, activist, philosopher and designer. She studied Philosophy and social science and specialized in political science. Her passion to find communicative tools to connect academic humanities and activism activated her great interest in design and methodology.
Mohammed Tawfiq (Iraq) studied graphic designs at Arteveldehogeschool. He is working with drawing, painting, photography, animation, graphic work, performance.
Hooman Jalidi (1990° Iran) began to study visual arts and music in 2004 in Shiraz city. During this period he devoted himself in drawing, painting, collage, illustration, pattern design, digital design, fabric manipulation and textile design. In 2015 he came to Belgium.
Kinda Ghannoum was born in 1991 in Poland, she is a Syrian/Polish graphic designer coming from Damascus. She graduated from the faculty of Architecture in Damascus University. She found her passion in graphic design, decided to follow it and learned by herself.
CONTACT:
post.opendesigncourse.be
odc.postcollective@gmail.com
+32 489378481
