Artistic council

The artistic council consists of external experts who act as a selection and reflection committee for the artistic team. They review the applications for the open call of the development residency and follow up on the artists they select by returning as mentors in the studio sessions. The advisors change every two years, in line with changing focus of our programme.

These are the five artists and curators who will accompany us in 2024-2025:

Dušica Dražić

Dušica Dražić is an artist and independent curator who lives and works in Antwerp. She researches the interrelationship of place and its users, rethinks them at the level of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. She is interested in methods of knowledge production concerning social, political and aesthetic changes of (public) space.

Dušica has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and screenings, and has initiated and (co-)curated collaborative projects and exhibitions. Since 2018 she, together with Wim Janssen, has founded and lead OUT OF SIGHT in Antwerp, dedicated to experimental, audio-visual and time-based practices. In 2020 she also joined the wpZimmer team as a creative producer and artistic collaborator.

dusicadrazic.com / out-of-sight.be

Mekhitar Garabedian

Mekhitar Garabedian is an artist who was born in Aleppo and lives and works in Antwerp. Deploying a variety of media such as drawing, video, photography and installation, many of his works draw from his experience as an immigrant and play on the humour and poetic qualities he finds between languages, cultures and histories. Just as his personal diasporic history is layered, his work echoes with a multiplicity of references to literature, music, philosophy and visual arts.

In 2022, Mekhitar was commissioned by Middelheimmuseum/Kunst in de Stad to create a public sculpture in the Antwerp Stadspark. Previously he had solo exhibitions at BOZAR in Brussels, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Beursschouwburg in Brussels, BE-Part in Waregem and KIOSK in Ghent. In 2015 he was invited to present several works at the Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which was awarded with the Golden Lion.

Bas Hendrikx

Bas Hendrikx is a curator based in Brussels. He focuses on participatory practices, digital art and queer art history. He is Curator of Participation and Audience Engagement at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels.

BAs has curated and organised numerous exhibitions and programmes for institutions such as BOZAR in Brussels, De Appel arts centre, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Inter/Access in Toronto, and the ULAY Foundation in Ljubljana. Hendrikx is the editor of ‘Authenticity?’ (Valiz, 2017) and 'Queer Exhibition Histories’ (Valiz, 2023).

Marlie Mul

Marlie Mul is an artist who lives in Brussels. Her artistic practice manifests somewhere in between sculpture, painting, print, fashion, distribution, writing, experiments in branding, the social, the flimsy, and the virtual. References to the flowing, the liquid, the oozing, recur in her work on a formal level and as metaphoric themes – from her folded paintings to facsimile sculptures of rain puddles and enquiries into the history of tobacco smoke.

Marlie has exhibited at, amongst others, Kunsthalle Wien, WIELS, Brussels, Etablissement d’en façe, Brussels, Tonus, Paris, Flat Time House, London, MACRO Museum, Rome, 49 Nord 6 Est–FRAC Lorraine, Metz, Kunsthalle Bern, Fridericianum, Kassel, Swiss institute, New York, ICA, London, and Sculpture Center, New York. She also works in art education. Marlie is currently chair of the Course Committee of Visual Arts, and a coordinator of the Master in Fine Arts at KASK Ghent. She was previously directing the MFA programme Work.Master at HEAD–Genève.

Sorana Munsya

Sorana Munsya is an independent curator and psychologist based in Brussels. Focusing on contemporary visual arts created by African and black artists, she is interested in the notions of fugitivity (see her symposium "Notes on Fugitivity"), opacity and healing, and how they relate with blackness within the African diaspora.

Sorana has organised, among others, the solo exhibitions of Leonard Pongo at BOZAR (2021), Michèle Magema at Extra City (2021), Joud Toamah at Photoforum Pasquart (Biel, Switzerland in 2022), the group show 'The Act of Breathing' (2022) at Horst festival with Kanal-Centre Pompidou, and was assistant curator of the 5th Biennale d'art contemporain de Lubumbashi. She is a member of the editorial team of GLEAN, artistic advisor for a public art project in Brussels with the NGO SOS Villages d'enfants, and a member of the curator collective Celador.