Bio
Isabelle Schiltz was born and raised in Virton, Belgium. She completed a Master degree in English and Dutch Languages and Literature at the University of Brussels. During her university years, she was introduced to the use of her voice by Roy Hart member, Joseph Clark, with whom she studied. She finalized her university studies with a thesis questioning themes of identity and chaos in the work of the writer Paul Auster and the artist Sophie Calle. She then moved to Amsterdam and started a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, specializing her practice in Performance. She has collaborated musically with various musicians and vocal performers. During her curriculum, she took part in an exchange semester at the Performance Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In July 2011, she graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She is currently working and living in the north of Norway.
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EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
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2012-2013 2011 2009 2006-2011 2005 2001-2006 |
Air Antwerpen residency, Antwerp, BE EEA residency, Beelitz-Heilstätten, DE Undergraduate in the Performance Department (Exchange Program)– The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US Bachelor of Fine Arts - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL Thesis : “Desiring Bodies” Undergraduate in the English Language and Literature Department (Exchange Program) - University of Edinburgh, UK Master of English and Dutch Languages and Literature (Germanic Philology) – Université Libre, Brussels, BE Awarded with Distinction Thesis : “Self-Fashioning and Social Alienation in the Works of Paul Auster and Sophie Calle” |
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / LIVE PERFORMANCES
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2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 |
Studies of Movement, Kunstforeningen Verdens Ende, Tjøme, NO Alpenland, Air Antwerpen, Antwerp, BE EEA Decennial Exhibition, Kunstfabrik A. Flutgraben, Berlin, GE It's a Small Small World, curated by Hennessy Youngman, Family Business Gallery, New York, US Deathtripping, Vivid, Birmingham, UK In Search of New Alliances, P.ART Gallery, Zwolle, NL The Talent Show, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL On/Off, Precious Possessions, Extrapool, Nijmegen, NL I Told you not to Come!, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL Borders - Reach and Move, Beelitz-Heilstätten, DE Force Would Vanish from the Relations of Men, Action Field Kodra 11 Contemporary Art Festival, Thessaloniki, GR The Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL A Flux Day, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL Monstruous Bodies, Workspaces LTD, San Fransisco, US The More Crisis, The More Performance, curated by Performance Art Event and Art Amsterdam, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL FLAM (Forum of Live Art Amsterdam), Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL Biography of a Boundary, CBK, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL The Go-Go Project : 24h Residency, AWA Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Isabelle Schiltz - Video, GRAD gallery (European Center for Culture and Debate), Belgrade, SRB Digital Playground in Island, curated by Nathalie Shin (Total Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul), Kolej Yayasan Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, MY HENK 24hours Super Screening, NDSM, Amsterdam, NL Wonderkermis, Chasseskerk, Amsterdam, NL Night of Museums and Galleries, Ancient Odeon Theater Plovdiv, BG Kopenhagen Contemporary, Kopenhagen Art Institute, Copenhagen, DK Coffee with Sugar, National Gallery, Sofia, BG In the Evidence of Experience, Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL Zjer, performance with Ryan Dunn, Hotti Biscotti, Chicago, US Shelter01, OT301, Amsterdam, NL Uncut, curated by Maze de Boer, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL Embodiment, Eel Space, Chicago, US Noisewomb, curated by Aryan Kaganof, screening of ‘Tame’ and Artist Talk, Netfilmakers, Copenhagen, DK Out of Time Festival Opening Ceremony, performance with Ryan Dunn, Marissa Perel and AntiBody dance group, Epiphany Church, Chicago, US 2700, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, US Cincinnati Visual Fringe Festival, the Chidlaw Gallery of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, US A Show for Buchanan, Mi, performance with Ryan Dunn and Marissa Perel, Buchanan, US A Wednesday Gathering, performance with Adam Rose (AntiBody dance), Noé Cuéllar’s, Chicago, US Waveforms, performance with Ryan Dunn, Enemy, Chicago, US Dance performances with Krisztina de Châtel, various locations, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL Dag en Nacht Art Project Exhibition, Sugar Factory, Amsterdam, NL 2nd in Serie of the Rietveld Academy, Service Garage, Amsterdam, NL Video Art Party, Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam, NL In Bed with Us, vocal performance with Anael Honings, Parcours d'Artistes, Brussels, BE Sans Titre pour Elles, a film by Damien Magnette, Cédric Van Caeter, EMMA 05 Exhibition, Brussels, BE |
