DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Emmanuel Van der Auwera

Emmanuel Van der Auwera (b. 1982, BE) is an artist and filmmaker, based in Brussels, Belgium. He works with video, installation, sculpture, printmaking and often in tension between art and technology, reality vs. simulation and the trivialization of violence. Finding his material in the rampant image production of a global screen culture, he is interested in the meaning of images and how they depict reality while at the same time constructing it. He studied at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, France and did the HISK residency in Ghent, Belgium. He was the first winner of the Goldwasserschenking awarded by WIELS and the Belgian Royal Museums of Fine Arts. He won the second annual Otazu Art Prize at Untitled, Art Miami Beach for his work VideoSculpture XXI (Vegas). His video work has been shown in festivals, museums and galleries, including Courtisane Film Festival, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; WIELS, Brussels; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, the HeK - House of Electronic Arts, Basel, and recently in KW, Berlin (2024); Biennale de l'image mouvement de Genève, Switzerland (2024), 8th Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2024). His work is included in international collections including the KADIST Foundation, Dallas Museum of Art, the Otazu Foundation - Spain, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Belgium.