Anne Quirynen
- Maximilian's Darkroom, 2004
Anne Quirynen was born in 1960 in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium)
She studied art history in Leuven and video art at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels. After graduating in 1988 she worked as director of the department of video art at the Catholic University of Leuven and at the Vlaams Theater Instituut in Brussels.
Since 1993 she has been working freelance together with William Forsythe and Wim Vandekeybus among others. In 1994 she belonged to the founders of the independent production company for digital art "De Filmfabriek."
A grant from the Nipkow Program led her in 1999 to Berlin. Today she lives and works in Berlin and Chicago. Since 2003 various positions as visiting lecturer, for example at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, European Media Sciences and the Chicago Art Institute. Since 2006 she is assistant professor for Film, Video and New Media at the Chicago Art Institute.
Her films and video installations have been shown at international festivals, such as Berliner Festspiele, the Forum of the Berlinale, the International Festival of New Film Split, Rotterdam Filmfestival, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, World Wide Video Festival Den Haag and Art & Video in Europe Kopenhagen as well as in art centers like the Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Nippon Cultural Centre in Tokyo.
Installations: The Mindmachine of Dr. Forsythe (1993), Everything will be allright (1997, beide mit Peter Missotten und An-Marie Lambrechts, Jetzt (2000), In a Landscape (2001), Interzone (2004).
Films: The Way of the Weed (1997, Langspielfilm), In a Landscape (2001)
for further information please visit www.annequirynen.com
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