Bo Vloors (°1993, she/her) is a visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and writer who lives and works in Brussels.
Using photography, film and text, her work revolves around human relations, their surroundings and the influential power of images. “The Image” stands central in her practice. She uses the art of image-making to visualize her interest in human behavior and their surroundings. Striving to balance aesthetics and content, her work gently unfolds (her own) human vulnerability with a certain tenderness, intimacy and uncertainty.
In her most recent works she became more skeptical about the romanticized perception of images and introduced words and text into her practice as an additional counterbalance. Approaching her writings as The Missing Image, they have a complementary, affirmative or rhetorical purpose in relation to the actual image. Addressing the image’s limited representation of reality, emphasizing on the responsibility of the image maker and questioning the romanticized nature of images, “The Image” continues to root at the core of her artistic practice, both as subject and material.
Upcoming
2024 writers residency, Can Serrat, International Art Residency (ES)
2024 visual arts residency, RAVI Liège (BE)
Education
2018 master in audiovisual arts, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2016 erasmus in fine arts, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
2016 bachelor in visual arts, photography, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Exhibitions
2023 Collecting Time, Raam Passage, Brussels (BE)
2023 Collecting Time, SB34, Brussels (BE)
2023 Collecting Time, Art au Centre Liège (BE)
2023 Healing Water, Blue stands for Liquid Solidification, Z33, Hasselt (BE)
2023 WunderKamer, De Appeltuin, Photo Brussels Festival, Brussels (BE)
2022 Breedbeeld Traject 3, The (ab)Use of Beauty, Zebrastraat Ghent, (BE)
2021 SPASS, Je te Suis, Café Maya Angelou, Paris, (FR)
2021 Bruocsella, Forest Portal, K.L.8. exhibition space, Brussels, (BE)
2020 Something When it Doesn’t Rain, Morgen, Decoratelier, Brussels, (BE)
2019 Many a Moon, Moment, Recyclart, Brussels, (BE)
2019 Night shift, from Dusk till Dawn, Morgen, De Studio, Antwerp, (BE)
2019 Transforming / Disappearing Landscape, Vitrine106, Brussels (BE)
2018 Faraway/Nearby, You Know What I Mean? Argos center for audiovisual arts, Brussels (BE)
2017 Description/Instruction, The New Space, Brussels, (BE)
2017 Fabrik, Untitled, Leuven, (BE)
2017 Do Not Open, La Vallée, Brussels, (BE)
2016 Carte Blanche, Untitled, Bronks theater for young audiences, Brussels, (BE)
2016 Rundgang, Moment, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, (AT)
2015 HGO!Xtra, Moment, CinemaTEK, Brussels, (BE)
2015 Sneak Peek, DAY, Tussenin Gallery, Ostend, (BE)
Screenings
2023 De Wereld Staat Op Zijn Kop, but I Love You Baby, The Green Corridor, Brussels (BE).
2022 Morgen, E.A.R. (Expanded AUDIO Resistance), Theresia, Ghent, (BE)
2021 Morgen, Fole Beton Film festival, Paris, (FR)
2020 Morgen, Something When it Doesn’t Rain, Decoratelier, Brussels, (BE)
2020 Morgen, Lateral Film Festival, Cosenza, (IT)
2019 Morgen, (International première) San Sebastian Film Festival, San Sebastian, (ES)
2019 Morgen, Night shift, from Dusk till Dawn, De Studio, Antwerp, (BE)
2019 Morgen, BXLmakers, Cinéma Palace, Brussels, (BE)
2019 Morgen, Cinéclub, Cinemaclub LUCA, Brussels, (BE)
2019 Moment, Many a Moon, Recyclart, Brussels, (BE)
2018 Morgen, (Belgium Première) Tumbleweed Tomorrow, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, (BE)
2018 You Know What I Mean, Faraway/Nearby, Argos center for audiovisual arts, Brussels, (BE)
2017 Odsłonić, Gallery New Era Art, Krakow, (PL)
2015 Moment, HGO!Xtra, CinemaTEK, Brussels, (BE)
Publications and contributions
2023 The Never-ending wonder of the artist as a researcher, Different Class, text by Sacha Verheij
2022 L’art Même, Boarding Call, performance by Marjolein Guldentop, text by Raymond Balau
2021 Kiosk’s Linda Nochlin Fanzine, Je te Suis
2021 On & For Production and Distribution, Auguste Orths production and distribution platform
Grants
2023 Grant for emerging artist, The Flemish Community Commission
2020 Development grant from the Flemish Governement, 5000 €
Residency
2017 La Vallée, Brussels (BE)
Collaborations (selection)
2023 De Wereld Staat Op Zijn Kop, but I Love You Baby, collaboration with Niels Poiz, M Leuven, (BE)
2022 Conversations, collaboration with Orson Claeys, Ghent (BE)
2021 Nymphose, collaboration with Jonas Alexander, Paris (FR)
2021 Pneuma, collaboration with Pierre Laly, Paris (FR)
2021 Pan, collaboration with Federico Luz and Anna-Sofia Lugmeier, München (DE)
2020 Daythief, collaboration with Jonas Alexander for Tokyo Fashion Week S/S, Paris (FR)
2019 Antigone Archiv Oper, collaboration with Anna-Sofie Lugmeier, Munchen (DE)
2019 l’Indifference du Temps, collaboration with Jonas Alexander, Paris (FR)
2019 The Seed Eaters, collaboration with Emily Mast, STUK Leuven (BE)
2019 Losing, collaboration with First, Leuven (BE)
2017 Chapter01, collaboration with Chapter01 collective, Brussels (BE)
side notes
2019 - present: member of art-collective SPASS, Paris (FR)
2019 - 2022: artistic direction publication Voyons Voir, Paris (FR)
2022 DIP-talk (Dive Into Practice), Tristero House, Brussels, (BE)
2022 Participant Breedbeeld Traject#3, Ghent, (BE)
2019 Morgen selected for the media library of Vision Du Réel (CH)
2018 You Know What I Mean purchase by Argos’ media library, Brussels (BE)
2018 Invited artist on the use of cinema techniques in theater, Showcase Kammerspiele, München, (DE)
2018 Artist talk Alumni, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels (BE)
2016 Artist talk, Chapter Fornia Collective, Brussels (BE)
bovloors@hotmail.com
/ instagram