Bio:
Erien Withouck’s (1994) work stems from a desire to stop time and simultaneously (re)animate it. It comes from a desire to look, but also to show. To find and to lose. Photographs are loose fragments from a history that has passed; they are imaginary representations of a bygone story. From that perspective, individual photos and moving images are well suited to tell a new story though placing them in relation with other images. Withouck often uses archive material that she combines with her own Image archive to braid new narratives and suggest other histories.
Studies:
2017-2020: Master in Cultural Studies
KU Leuven, Leuven
Summa Cum Laude
2013 – 2017: Bachelor in Visual Arts: Photography
Luca School of Arts, Brussel
Cum Laude
Exhibitions:
2020 (title to be announced) (solo), Tique, Antwerp
2020 Marée (solo), CAS, Ostend
2020 BAC Open Studio Days, Leuven
2020 Ithaka 28, Leuven
2019 Off the Grid presenting 'The Archive Hotel', CASCO, Leuven
2019 Het nest tussen waarheid en herinnering, Ijsberg, Damme
2019 Sweet Seventy, CAS, Oostende
2019 Onverbloemd, Bloementorens, Diksmuide
2019 The Belgian Photobook, FoMU, Antwerp
2019 Many a Moon, Recyclart, Brussels
2019 4X4 (Alumni Project), Ravenstein, Brussels
2019 That-Has-Been, 'In de Ruimte', Gent
2019 Expo Bring Your Photobook, Liège
(L'Image Sans Nom, Galerie Wegimont)
2018 De Nieuwe Garde, Kunst in Huis, Antwerp
2018 Het Objectief, Gent
2017 Graduation Show, Sint Lukas, Brussels
2016 YOU!, BredaPhoto, Breda
2015 RE: Dessauvage, Moderne Kerken Herbekeken, KADOC, Leuven
2015 Sneak Peek, Tussenin, Oostende
Residencies:
2020 BAC, Leuven
2021 Szenne, Brussels
Talks:
2019 DIP Talks, Sint Lukas, Brussels
2019 Guest Lecture, Photography and Visual Culture, KU Leuven
Nominations/awards:
2018 Shortlist Photobook Awards, Liège Photobook Festival, Liège
2018 De Nieuwe Garde, Kunst in Huis
2018 Young European Talent (YET Programme), Maastricht
Work Experience:
2018 Research
Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels
& M HKA, Museum of Contemporary art Antwerp
Regarding Project: Belgian Artist film & video in the ‘70’s
2018 (current) Research & Organizational Assistance
Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, KU Leuven
2015 Internship: Department Curator Collection, FoMU
Regarding exhibition Photography Inc.
Projects:
Monokino
Nomadic film platform initiated by Anouk De Clercq to bring alternative cinema to Ostend
