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BIOGRAPHY

2017-18

Zeno New Hospital- Knokke-Zoute
Competition winner For "Stille Ruimte" and "schuifdeuren"

2017

Brussels Swings  ! 59'
A road movie of sounds
A film by Marie-Jo Lafontaine

April 26. Private Event at Studio 4- Flagey 

2013

Photo Protocolaire du Couple Royal Belge

2012

Icons of Art Basel-Rolls-Royce Artist Talk between Marie Jo Lafontaine and Alexandre Castant

2009

Remise du Prix Edward Steichen à laLauréate à Luxembourg

2008

Prix ” Shanghai fashion & culture Mediaaward” 
China Fashion awards is China’s first award ceremony dedicated to the discovery, reward and promotion of pioneers in culture and fashion industry

2007

Competition winner City project “Klein Seminarie”, Roeselare, Belgium

2006

Guest-Artist and competion winner of the Sky Arena Project “I Love the World” for the Opening of the World Football Cup” in Frankfurt, Germany.

2004

Guest-professor at U.D.K. in Berlin- Germany.

2003

Competition winner “Kunst am Bau” at the New Museum built by Daniel Libeskind in Osnabrück, Germany.

2002

Realization of the BMW Art project “Glass Pavillon” in Munich, Germany.

2001

Postage Stamp “The Roses”, an artistic series of stamps for Belgium.

2000/2001

Competition winner “Art for the Pier”.
New Wing at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden

2000

Competition winner “Kunst am Bau” Justizcentrum, Bonn, Germany.

1998

Guest-professor at the Bundesakademie für Kulturelle Bildung
in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.

1998

Nominated “Cultural Ambassador of Flanders”

1998

Associated professor at the HFG Karlsruhe, Germany.

1997

Award for photography “Photo 98” in Great-Britain.

1996

Start of interactive audio installations with Todor Todoroff.

1995

Award “Wilhem Loth Kunstpreis” from the city of Darmstadt, Germany.

1992

"Award“ Europäische Medien und Kommunikations Preis”, Germany.

1992

Professor at the HFG in Karlsruhe, Germany

1990

Professor at the “Sommerakademie” in Salzburg, Austria.

1987

nvited at Documenta Kassel, Germany: “Les Larmes d’Acier”

1986/87

Lives in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon and Marseille, France;
Invited artist at the Festival d’Avignon.

1986

Grant to “Fiacre”, Ministère de la Culture Française à Paris, France.

1985

Grant to “M.I.T.”, Boston, USA.

1980

Beginning of multi sources and multi screen video installations.

1979

Award “Prix de la Critique”, Antwerpen, Belgium

1978

Bronze medal “Prix Europe de la Peinture”, Oostende, Belgium

1977

Award “Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge”, Brussels, Belgium.
Beginning of monochrome textile environments.

1975/79

Studies at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et des Arts Visuels,
“La Cambre” in Brussels, Belgium.

1950

Born in Antwerpen, lives in Brussels.