Isa Bongers (2001, NL) is an interdisciplinary artist researching and reflecting on visual culture and the way images appear to us in public space. Through observations, reflections, writing, videos and conversations she aims to understand and challenge the images that persuade us to crave unattainable realities.
Isa Bongers (2001, NL) is an interdisciplinary artist researching and reflecting on visual culture and the way images appear to us in public space. Through observations, reflections, writing, videos and conversations she aims to understand and challenge the images that persuade us to crave unattainable realities.
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Isa Bongers
18th of June 2001, the Netherlands
Currently living and working in Ghent, Belgium
Isa Bongers uses her ever-growing archive and observations as medium and
research tool for her interdisciplinary artistic practice. She implements these
observations in writing, videos, installations, performances and public
interventions. In her practice, she researches and reflects on visual culture
and the way images appear to us in public space. The work aims to understand
how people communicate with each other visually and to question the life of
images after their installment in streets. Isa feels compelled to analyse these
images through a critical and sensitive lens, exploring the relationships
between advertisements and handwritten posters, or humans and their
representations. She aims to understand and challenge the images that persuade
us to crave unattainable realities. Her work invites everyone to dedicate time
to images often overlooked, finding poetry and patterns within them. It
encourages a critical analysis of the everyday, prompting us to recognise and
question the information our surroundings constantly provide.
Contact: bongersisa@gmail.com / @bongersisa
Selected Exhibitions
2024
‘One Night Stand’ @ NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam NL (group)
‘VenloVerlicht’ in Venlo NL (open air exhibition in the public space of Venlo)
‘Waiting For An Answer’ @ Omstand, Arnhem NL (group)nswer’
‘Where I Pass By And Become’ @ Concordia, Enschede NL (film screening)grh
‘AKI Finals 2024’ Graduation Show @ AKI, Enschede NL (group)
‘Frauen Bauen Stadt: The City Through a Female Lens’ @ AFO, Linz AT (group)
‘Intercity’ @ CITY, Venlo NL (performance + group)
‘Benutzung auf Eigene Gefahr!’ @ Salzkammergut Cultural Capital, Gmunden AT (public intervention)
‘A Guided Tour Through Venice in Linz’ @ Pluscity, Linz AT (public performance)
2023
Residency Exhibition @ de Nieuwkomers, Chaam NL (group)
‘Santo Santo’ @ SANTO, Ghent BE (group)
‘MAYDAY MAYDAY Festival’ @ Campo Victoria, Ghent BE (group)
‘Not Just A Library’ @ Platform P_OST, Arnhem NL (group)
2022
‘Waarom Koop Ik Nooit Taart Voor Mezelf?’ @ Concordia, Enschede NL (solo)
‘After Hours’ @ Sickhouse, Enschede NL (group)
‘Creo After Hours’ @ Metropool, Enschede NL (group)
2021
‘Matters of Care’ @ AKI, Enschede NL (group)
‘No Visitors’ @ AKI, Enschede NL (group)
2018
Graduation Show Foundation Course Fine Art @ ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond NL (group)
Relevant Experience
2024
Collective Public Performance with BUrb & Funduk Collective, Venice IT
2023
Production Team for ‘>>DA-NACH<<’ Show by Thomas Hirschhorn @ IFK, Vienna AT
Organising Team for ‘MAYDAY MAYDAY Festival’ @ Campo Victoria, Ghent BE
Initiator ‘Digital Nomadic Happenings’ Research get-togethers @ Minus One, Ghent BE
2022
Editor @ Tijdschrift Ei, Amsterdam NL
Art space employee @ Concordia Ruimte voor de Kunst, Enschede NL
2017
Third Place in Film category @ Kunstbende Limburg, Sittard NL
Education
2024
AKI ArtEZ, BA Fine Art & Crossmedia Design, Minor Artistic Research, Honours Program, Enschede NL
Kunstuniversität Linz, space&designstrategies, BA Erasmus Exchange Semester, Linz AT
2023
KASK Royal Academy of the Arts, Autonomous Design, BA Erasmus Exchange Semester, Ghent BE
2019
SG. Sint Ursula, VWO, Horn NL
2018
Maastricht Insitute of the Arts, Foundation Course in Fine Art
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