Stefaan van Biesen
(m) [Belgium] 0.1 visual artist > writer > space specific practice > curating & coaching > environmentalist > birdwatcher > plant connoisseur > participatory objects and installations > actions, teaching and social criticism > silence as an artistic condition > artistic flaneur > letters to a tree > 0.2 founding member of ARt/NaturSci Movement of ArtScience Exhibits community Berlin [Humboldt University] > co-founder of the Milena principle [international art platform] > the Politics of the heart > Walking Artists Network > Promenadology > Made of Walking community > WIT-urban team > 0.3 drawings, designs, installations, photography, video, soundscapes, texts, lectures and performances > Urban rituals > an associative solidity between thinking, acting, environment, well-being > 'how do our thoughts manifest themselves via acts in our environment and to what extent do they contribute to our well-being?' > 0.4 devoting an important part of his artistic activity to exchanges and collaborations with other artists and experts from various disciplines > 0.5 international projects are: 'Fly Ways' > 'Wander Weed' > Made of Walking > ‘Spaziergangwissenschaft’ > seen as a forum for discussion about sociological and ecological visions > 0.6 the nomadic aspect of the renaissance artists, who travelled all over Europe > the Albrecht Dürer Connection > journeys become art projects > laboratories of thoughts > drawings and other artefacts arise from encounters > notes, artefacts and drawings embellish the journey > 0.7 refers to the concept of ‘the body as measure unit’ > using the senses and the body as instruments of knowledge, experience and creativity > art as a tool of connection > 0.8 worked as an artist in Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Poland, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Serbia, Brazil, USA and China > 09 Private Foundation Van Biesen-Mestdagh & Estate/Archive >
