In 2024, our Meyboom community was forced out of our Pacheco 34 location by big-finance powers. Unfortunately, our Collective Statement and outreach to political actors hasn't helped. From our small temporary location (Rue Lambert Crickxstraat 17-2, Anderlecht) we're looking for a new space where we can stay for longer, and possibly share with more collectives.
Meyboom is an artist run-space that brings together a community of individuals and collectives working in different fields that formed over the years since 2013. The broad variety of practices of our community gives us the chance to exchange, support each other, and extend this spirit out to the city. Meyboom is both a space for artists to work but also a space from which the myriad of interdisciplinary practices engage with the local context of the city of Bruxelles and beyond.
ULB master student in STIC (Sciences & Technologies of Information & Communication). Former ERG student with a master degree in Drawing/ PACS (Pratiques Artistiques & Complexité Scientifique). Works on sense of place and organizing things. Loves reading and writing in all-caps in small books. Working part-time in a record-shop.
https://www.danialshah.com
"Why do we take photographs?" is a question that Danial explores in his artistic practice, critically examining the orientalist gaze in both seeing and representation. He works with the mediums of photography and film and is currently pursuing an artistic PhD at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts. His debut feature film, Make it Look Real (2024), is currently being shown at various film festivals.
Daphnée Paris is a graphic designer based in Brussels. She collaborates with artists, designers, architects and institutions. Her services covers all forms of printed matters, from book to exhibition design.
Film was labelled "the seventh art" at the begin of the XXth century after a manifesto by Riciotto Canudo, one of first film theoretitians. He saw first cinema as a new art, a "fusion" art: "a superb conciliation of the Rhythms of Space and the Rhythms of Time". Fusion Cinema is small-scale non profit platform devoted to film research and production to further explore the fusion of arts whithin cinema. Its flagship project, "Pages of Album" is signed by filmmakers Erik Parys and Pablo Diartinez (also plastic artist and graphic designer). Erik and Pablo have been a creative tandem since 1999 and they also have a commercial name "C U studio" under which they take comissions for better known agencies. Their commercial work span from videoclips, advertising spots, special effects and motion graphics for broadcast or social media to illustration, lay-out, logos and identity systems for print or web.
Jesse van Winden is an art worker with an interest in artistic communities. Co-founder of the Brussels Artist-run Network, he brings artists and art workers together accross disciplines and politicized language barriers. He found his way into the Meyboom community through his coordinating curatorial practice for Jubilee, platform for artistic research. His own artistic research practice engages with local histories of capitalism. For a recent project, see: Our Fluid Territories.
Laura Conant is a designer and developper mingling with sound. Her work includes 3D modeling, web design and development and art direction. Keen on building her own tools through coding and programming, she has a particular interest towards open-source tools. She collaborates with artists, designers and institutions. She is also part of the Brussels based music label and event series MONTAGE, as well as a member of the collective Bye Bye Binary.
Laure Giletti co-founded the graphic design and web development studio eurogroupe with Gregory Dapra. They design on paper, screen and space upon long-standing collaborations. She is part of the team of the master of typography at La Cambre Arts Visuels. She has been a member of the Parisian collective castillo/corrales: exhibition space, bookshop and publishing house. She is a member of the Franco-Belgian collective Bye Bye Binary, which takes non-binary language and writing as its starting point, field of experimentation and research subject.
works in the intersections between performance and sound art. Her work is developed over the long term and is research-based. It takes place outside and beyong the black box, often developed in situ. She is currently the initiator of the Oceanographies Institute (2018-present), a research institute focusing on the relation between the human body and the ocean.
Marie Verdeil (she/her) is a french designer based in Brussels. She uses design to explain and challenge how we perceive, build and use technology. This practice mostly takes the form of tools, websites, interfaces, prototypes, guides and workshops. Closely collaborating with Low-tech Magazine, she promotes a DIY approach, with an attention to resource and energy use.
http://www.marilynegrimmer.net
is a French visual artist and sometimes a scenographer based in Brussels since 2008. She alternates between personal projects as a photographer, participatory projects with diverse audiences, collaboration as a scenographer for theatre companies, installations and performances with the Repondeur automatik collective. In her personal work, she likes to visit strangers to hear their stories, everyday stories, object's stories, travel stories. Sometimes she teleportate them to the place of their dreams. She often uses the public space to share the stories she collected (in advertisement board, window shop..) so that they are accessible by anyone who passes by.
has a master's degree in typography from ERG, is a graphic designer and lettering hunter by day, and a DJ by night. She is part of the Belgian collective Poxcat which promotes women in music by organizing events and hosting a monthly radio show on The Word Radio. Through her practice of lettering and her interest in digital typographic drawing through the skeleton, she brings a particular care to the ligatures that she melts into alloys as many transitions and passages within her mixes. Marouchka is also a member of the ByeByeBinary collective.
Photographer, curator and art worker. Graduated from the CARE masters degree in curating at the ARBA-ESA and the bachelor degree in photography from Le 75. Focuses mainly in documentary photoprojects about precarity, social, physical and mental health topics and how they are impacted and integrate themselves in their surroundings. While the pictures are based on tangible matters, the curating projects are more of a playful nature, building interactive spaces that narrate stories and try to involve doubt in the participants throught deceiving or mischievous guiding principles.
Since 2006, Open Source Publishing questions the influence and affordance of digital tools through its practice of (commissioned) graphic design, pedagogy and applied research. They prefer to use exclusively free and open source softwares (F/LOSS). Currently the group is composed of people with backgrounds in graphic design, typography and development, and has has collaborated with organisations of different sizes, or individual artists. They find excitement in the cross-over between its members respective fields and competences.
Olivier Bertrand designs page-based objects that are sometimes folded and sometimes not, sometimes digital and sometimes printed. His research into publishing focuses on appropriation and hacking the leftover from industrial production. With similar mindset, he runs a publishing house called Surfaces Utiles. Since 2015, he has edited La Perruque, a 90 centimetre long magazine printed in the margins of regular documents, and publishing nonstandard type specimens.
Through text and performance, Pia Louwerens (1990, Rotterdam, she/her they/them) explores how artwork, artist and institutional context produce each other. Louwerens was a researcher and mentor at a.pass, an experimental platform for artistic research in Brussels. From 2019-2020 they held a research position at a research consortium in The Netherlands, about which they wrote the autotheoretical, semi-fictive novel âIâm Not Sad, The World Is Sadâ (2022). In 2023 Louwerens worked together with Katinka van Gorkum to research the Lesbisch Archief Leeuwarden. Next to her artistic practice she works as a tour guide, writer, and art critic for De Witte Raaf and Metropolis M. Louwerens is based in Brussels.Â
RĂ©becca Fruitman (Bruxelles, 1991) est artiste, enseignante et programmatrice cinĂ©ma. AnimĂ©e par la phase de recherche dans la  crĂ©ation, elle utilise lâapproche artistique comme mĂ©thode de rencontre et dâexploration de sujets sociaux, gĂ©ographiques, linguistiques, historiques.
RĂ©becca est membre supplĂ©ante depuis 2020 de la Commission Consultative des Arts Plastiques de la FĂ©dĂ©ration Wallonie-Bruxelles. En 2016, elle participait Ă la fondation de Labobine, laboratoire pĂ©dagogique pour le dĂ©veloppement de la pellicule cinĂ©matographique. Depuis 2017, RĂ©becca enseigne le cinĂ©ma expĂ©rimental Ă lâERG. De 2020 Ă 2022 elle fut chargĂ©e de projets pour PELISKAN, organisation  Ćuvrant Ă la numĂ©risation, Ă la sauvegarde et Ă la valorisation du cinĂ©ma belge. De 2017 Ă 2020 elle fut chargĂ©e de missions dâĂ©ducation permanente Ă ARGOS - Centre for Audiovisual Arts.
SalomĂ© Macquet is a graphic designer, speculative designer and artist. Her research focuses on time in astrophysics and quantum physics, and questions its relationship with the political and social sciences through design, fiction and performance. At the same time, she designs visual identities, books, posters, websites and typefaces for cultural institutions, publishers, scientific innovation companies, architects and non-profit organizations. Her practice is deeply rooted in the use of code and the materiality of print, with a particular focus on typography. âšShe graduated from the Ăcole nationale supĂ©rieure des arts dĂ©coratifs in Paris.