Alexandra Crouwers
Cuyk, The Netherlands, 1974
Antwerp, Belgium
info@alexandracrouwers.com
www.alexandracrouwers.com

Education
1993 – 1998 Academy for Arts & Design (now AKV St. Joost), Den Bosch (NL). Painting department. Awarded best graduation paper.
1998 – 2001 Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (NL). Master. Fine Arts department.
2004 – 2005 Antwerp University (BE). Master (unfinished). Filmstudies & Visual Culture. 
2019 –      Leuven University / LUCA School of Arts (BE). PhD in Arts in Animation (ongoing).

Residencies
2024 Huis van Herman Teirlinck, Beersel (BE)
2023 Hydromedia, Utrecht (NL)
2023 Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta (SE)
2020 Residency Unlimited, New York (US)
2009 RAID Projects, The Brewery, Los Angeles (US)
2008 Frans Masereelcentrum, Kasterlee (BE)
2005 Kunsthuis Syb, Beetsterzwaag (NL)
2002 De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
2001 Mariakapel, Hoorn (NL)

Solo exhibitions
2024 The Diviners are not the Authors of the Utterings, SecondRoom, Antwerp (BE)
2022 NGMI, DE.Groen, Arnhem (NL)
2020 The Three Motions of Loom, hosted by Museum Vleeshuis, Antwerp (BE)
2019 The Three Motions of Loom, Antwerp Art Pavilion / Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2018 Galactic Ripple, atrium Dutch Ministry of Finance, The Hague (NL)
2017 Lost_Horizon, LHGWR, The Hague (NL)
2017 The_Archive, DEStudio, Antwerp (BE)
2016 The White Hide, Studio Omstand, Arnhem (NL)
2015 Inertia, LHGWR, The Hague (NL)
2013 I am Dog, Star, LhGWR, The Hague (NL)
2011 The Order of Volume I, LhGWR, The Hague (NL)
2010 Practical Applied Hermetics (v1), SecondRoom, Antwerp (BE)
2010 Dunsmuir, Base-Alpha Gallery (BE)
2005 The Closed Circuit, De Hofkamer, Erfgoedhuis Den Wolsack, Antwerp (BE)
2002 KAAP>>, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
2001 Master graduation, Battlestar Antarctica, Mariakapel, Hoorn (NL)

Group shows
2025 Orewoet en Ecstasy, PARCUM, Leuven (BE)
2025 Conjuring Creativity: art & the esoteric conference, London (UK)
2025 Down the Silicon Meadow, Office Impart, online (common.garden, Berlin, DE)
2025 Unbound Dialogue, Kasteel de Spoelberch, Lovenjoel (BE)
2024 Hydromedia: Seeing with water, Technische Sammlungen/Museum for Technology, Dresden (DE)
2024 Echoes of Life, Faculty of Visual and Applied Arts, Departmental Institute of Fine Arts, Cali (Colombia)
2024 Hydromedia: Seeing with water, AG | HKU, Utrecht (NL)
2024 16UP, 38CC, Delft (NL)
2024 Wear Sunscreen, Villa Les Zéphyrs, Middelkerke (BE)
2023 Who is online? Game art in the age of NFTism, VirtualHEK, Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel (CH)
2023 Poème Sbjkt, L'Avant Galerie Vossen x Librairy Métamorphoses, Paris (FR)
2023 The World is Not Enough, New Float, online (Berlin, DE)
2022 Smaller Worlds. Diorama in Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU)
2022 Time and Again, Museum M, Leuven (BE)
2022 Unsigned, Operator x VellumLA, Los Angeles (US)
2021 Point of No Return, Hof De Bist, Ekeren (BE)
2021 Breedbeeld, Brialmontpark, Antwerpen (BE)
2019 Belgium Biannual, Floraliënhal, Ghent (BE)
2018 Impact van het hoogst Onwaarschijnlijke, Black Swan Gallery, Brugge (BE)
2018 Romantic Rocks, Podium, Oslo (N)
2018 The Realm, Observatorium, Antwerp (BE)
2018 C2H6O, Pulsar, Antwerp (BE)
2018 Final Proposal, Pulsar, Antwerp (BE)
2017 10 Years of Base-Alpha Gallery. Part II: Collaborations, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2016 30 Jaar De Ziener, De Markten, Brussels (BE)
2016 Set-Up, Pulsar, Antwerp (BE)
2015 Horst Festival, Kasteel van Horst, Holsbeek (BE)
2016 Inertia, media basement Collectie De.Groen, Arnhem (NL)
2016 Een Groep, De Ziener, Asse (BE)
2015 Inertia, mediawand, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)
2015 D.ART, Dijlenfeesten, Mechelen (BE) (winner 'Nobelsprize')
2015 S.W.I.M., In De Ruimte, Ghent (BE)
2014 Van Stof tot Asse, De Ziener, Asse (BE)
2014 BORG Biennale, Antwerp (BE)
2013 Onwards, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp (BE).
2012 Visions Fugitives, Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (FR)
2012 The Far Future is Nature, TETEM, Enschede (NL)
2012 Instrumentical, Quartair, The Hague (NL)
2012 Rio/Retro, Factor44, Antwerp (BE)
2012 Friday the 13th, RA, Antwerp (BE)
2011 Paradise Lost Paradise, Broeltoren, Kortrijk (BE)
2011 Belgium (p)Art, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
2010 Hareng Saur. Ensor and Contemporary Art, SMAK/MSK, Ghent (BE)
2010 FAX, Torrance Art Museum x The Drawing Centre, Los Angeles (US)
2010 Untitled (with Johan Gustavsson), LhGWR, The Hague (NL)
2009 Kamien, Municipal Centre for Culture, Chelmek (PL)
2009 Tekenen Nu, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, Den Bosch (NL)
2009 Vanaf Morgen, BKKC, Breda (NL)
2009 RPLA, Raid Projects, Los Angeles (US)
2008 G58 Mass-Akker, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE)
2008 Untitled, LhGWR, The Hague (NL)
2008 Grafische Vormgeving Dient, Lokaal01, Breda (NL)
2007 Dark Matter, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2006 Extra(sic), Antwerp (BE)
2006 Pénultimo, Factor 44, Antwerp (BE)
2005 SugarFree, Netwerk, Aalst (BE)
2005 Breda Photo, NKBS, Breda (NL)
2005 TAG, The Hague (NL)
2005 NICC Freespace, Hessenhuis, Antwerp (BE)
2005 Licht en Landschap in de Beeldende Kunst, Grafisch Atelier, Den Bosch (NL)
2004 Salon, NBKS, Breda (NL)
2004 Twintigers, NBKS, Breda (NL)
2004 De Kamerplaats, Grafisch Atelier, Den Bosch (NL)
2003 The Overall Urge to Intervene with Everything & Nothing, Pennings Gallery, Eindhoven (NL)
2002 Op Visite, Delft (NL)
2001 World of Enjoyment, De Fabriek, Eindhoven (NL)
1999 De Boulevard theatre festival, Forel Collective, Den Bosch (NL)
1998 En één mmmmelk, De Melkfabriek, Den Bosch (NL)
1998 Graduation show, Academy for Arts & Design, Den Bosch (NL)
1997 De Melkfabriek, Den Bosch (NL)
1995 Filmhuis Helmond (NL)

Art Fairs
2015 (solo) Amsterdam Art Fair, LhGWR, Amsterdam (NL)
2015 Art Rotterdam, LhGWR, Rotterdam (NL)
2011 Art Amsterdam, LhGWR, Amsterdam (NL)
2011 Art Brussels, Base-Alpha Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2010 Trajector Art Fair, Base-Alpha Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2010 Art Brussels, Base-Alpha Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2008 Lineart, Base-Alpha Gallery, Ghent (BE)
2000 Niet de Kunstvlaai, Feuilleton, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
1999 Niet de Kunstvlaai, Forel Collective, Amsterdam (NL)
1998 Niet de Kunstvlaai, Artis Den Bosch, Amsterdam (NL)

Screenings & live video
2020 Mistakes. The Artist Talk, Residency Unlimited, New York (US)
2018 Inertia, Science Friction, Go Short Festival, Arnhem (NL)
2018 Last Voices, Wildeburg Festival, Emmeloord (NL)
2017 Inertia, Club Imagine: Traagheid, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL)
2017 Inertia, Science Friction, Go Short Festival, Uppsala (SE)
2016 Heden: Het Heelal, VHDG, Leeuwarden (NL)
2014 One Short Story, What if... , Avantgarde ist Keine Strömung, Leipzig (D)
2013 The White Hide [III], On The Precipice, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK)
2013 The White Hide [III], On The Precipice, Woodhorn Museum, Ashington (UK)
2013 The White Hide [III], On The Precipice, Toffee Factory, Newcastle (UK)
2013 The White Hide [III], On The Precipice, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (UK)
2012 Psychopathische Polar, Felix Poetry Festival, Antwerp (BE)
2008 Souvenirs from Earth, (online), Cologne (D)
2007 One Short Story, Transmediale Festival, Berlin (D)
2007 One Short Story, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (UK)
2007 The 30.000 Miles Graveyard, 700IS, Reykjavik (IS)
2007 One Short Story, Impakt Festival, Utrecht (NL)
2007 One Short Story, galerie Fair Play, Berlin (D)
2007 One Short Story, Microwavefestival, Hongkong
2007 One Short Story, Portable Film Festival, Sydney/Melbourne (AUS)
2005 The 30.000 Miles Graveyard, Fair Play, Göteborg (SE)
2005 Carousel, Argosfestival, Argos, Brussels (BE)
1999 De één minuten, Sandberg Instituut (NL)
1999 VJ-project, Sandberg Instituut in De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam (NL)

Grants 
Throughout the years my practice has been kindly supported by Mondriaanfonds (and previously Fonds BKVB,NL), Kunstloc Brabant (and previously NBKS, province of North Brabant, NL), Kunsten & Erfgoed (Government of Flanders, BE), deBuren (BE), Tijl Fonds (part of Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, NL), and Fonds Kwadraat (NL).

Committees & Memberships
Jury member committee individual artist's grants Flemish Government (ongoing), regular board member Cultuurraad Berchem (BE), jury member Ultima Digitale Kunst (2024), former chair and regular jury member BKKC (artist's grants, Noord Brabants Funds for the Arts, now Kunstloc Brabant, NL), jury member Fameus Amateur Arts Festival (BE). Part of independent artist-run initiative Pulsar (Antwerp, BE, 2016-2018).

Curatiorial
2022 - Metaverse curations and other types of digital art curation
2013 Missing Link, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
2006 Extra(sic), in collaboration with Factor44, Antwerp (BE)
2003 2000 WATT, Antwerp (BE)
2001 Rumoer, 1646, Den Haag (NL)


Workshops | lectures | teaching
KASK, Ghent (drawing department: digital experiments), LUCA School of Arts, Brussels (animation department, research in art, digital dimensions course), AKV St. Joost, Den Bosch (NL), MAD Faculty, Hasselt (BE), KU Leuven (art history department), Re:anima (LUCA, Genk, loops: the snake biting its own tail).

Collections
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Collectie De.Groen (NL), Collection Francesco Tampieri (IT), British Library, London (UK), Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp (BE), Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels (BE), Royal Library, The Hague, (NL), and various private collectors in NL, BE and US.
NFT Collections of note
Anika Meier, Manuel Rossner, Xavier Pauwels, Kevin Abosch, Kelly Richardson, Auriea Harvey, Chris Coleman 

Press
2023 Interview Beeldenmagazine by Emiel Boilleau (NL)
2022 Interview NIIO editorial by Pau Waelder (online)
2022 Video-interview, Mutant Musings by Edgar Fabián Frías (online)
2020 Interview by Pieter Vermeulen, HART Magazine (BE)
2019 The Three Motions of Loom, GVA Newspaper (BE)
2019 The Three Motions of Loom by Peter Benoy, 100% EXPO (BE)
2015 Review Inertia, Sandra Smets, NRC (NL)
2015 Review Van Stof tot Asse, Mark Ruyters, HART Magazine (BE)
2011 Review Paradise Lost Paradise, HART Magazine #87 (BE)
2010 Review Dunsmuir, HART Magazine #69
2009 Interview LaVie, Taipei (TW) 
2009 Review Tekenen NU, De Kantlijn #10

Publications
2023 This Emptiness is Normal, exhibition text The Revenants, Rectangle, Brussels (BE)
2022 Bits & Pieces, Ina Vare: Glitch Art, online, HART Magazine
2022 Bits & Pieces, Ariel_Institute: AI Art, online, HART Magazine
2022 De Letterzetter. Peer reviewed article for Forum+vol. 29 nr. 2.
2022 Bits & Pieces, ROBNESS: Trash Art, online, HART Magazine
2022 Bits & Pieces, Lorna Mills: Gif Art, online, HART Magazine
2022 WAGMI, an awkward dance of art & crypto, HART Magazine #222
2021 The Plot, The Compositor, and Mourning/Mistakes. Peer reviewed publication for VIS Nordic Journal for artistic research Vol. #6.
2020 Handtassen van jeansbroeken, Etcetera Magazine (BE)
2018 Eindelijk alles over de meeuw van W.F. Hermans, review Furore #23, online platform Beurs Bijzondere Uitgevers, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Artspeak series: Fun Facts, HART Magazine #176
2017 Review Manette Salomon. Edmond en Jules de Goncourt, online platform Beurs Bijzondere Uitgevers, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Artspeak: Richter's Semantische Kwestie, HART Magazine #174
2017 Artspeak: Bollen en Sterren, HART Magazine #176
2017 Artspeak: Met Titel, HART Magazine #173
2017 Artspeak: Kunstbot, HART Magazine #172
2017 Artspeak: In Dialoog met Open Deuren, HART Magazine #171
2017 Review. Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer. Willem Frederik Hermans als Filosoof. Online platform Beurs Bijzondere Uitgevers, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Artspeak series: Meubilaire Slapstick, HART Magazine #170
2017 Artspeak series: Naar niets kijken roept vragen op, HART Magazine #169
2014 Review. De Kunstenaar als Machine. Suze Weber. HART Magazine #125
2014 Review. Volwassen Videokunst. Art Rotterdam Projections. HART Magazine #123
2013 Ooit. Catalogue text for Golden Power by Filip Vervaet, Lokeren (BE)
2012 Review. Urban Gothic. Marc Bijl at Groninger Museum. HART Magazine #103
2012 Verstrooid Papier, Demian, Antwerp (BE)
2012 Review. Pop Art: The next level. Yannick Val Gesto/Bart Van Dijck, Hectoliter, Brussels (BE), HART Magazine #101
2012 Review. Boekenplank, BE-Part Waregem, HART Magazine #96
2012 Brrr! Antoine Boute, HART Magazine #93
2011 The Cover Mountain, self-published limited edition hand made 'zine
2011 Review. Close Encounters. Johan Grimonprez/Roy Villevoye & Jan Dietvorst, SMAK, Ghent, HART Magazine #90
2011 Over Niets en Alles. Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans, HART Magazine #89
2010 Hareng Saur. Exhibition catalogue, SMAK/MSK, Ghent (BE)
2009 Exhibition text Geoffrey De Beer
2008 FutureBox, FOMU, Antwerp (BE)
2007 Eenenveertig brieven aan de jonge kunstenaar, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
2007 - 2009 Column series for HART Magazine (BE)

-------------------------------

Research activities 2019 – 2025
Research cluster Art & Society (formerly Intermedia) (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven)
Research group Art & Recollection (formerly Deep Histories Fragile Memories) (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven)

2019 VSAC / Visual Science of Art Conference, Louvain (BE)
2019 Botanical Bodies, On the political and ritual meaning of plants, Netwerk, Aalst (BE)
2020 Research residency at RU, New York (US)
2020 Mistakes. The artist talk, online screening research talk, New York (US)/Antwerp (BE)
2020 Future Visions CIIA Pre-congress by FilmEU (Online)
2020 Return Retrace Repair Refrain. Lecture and writing assignment for Art History students of Leuven University as part of Wendy Morris and Laurens Dhaenens' course.
2021 EARN/Smart Culture Postresearch Condition, Value & Recognition (Online). Participation and presentation as part of the Value workshop by Rolf Hughes and Rachel Armstrong.
2021 Digital Dimensions. LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, animation and film department. A course exploring digital developments in moving image, in collaboration with Guido Devadder. 
2021 The Plot, The Compositor, and Mourning/Mistakes. Peer reviewed publication for VIS Journal for artistic research #6.
2021 The Plot. Seminar as part of the Regenerative Aesthetics course by Volkmar Mühleis at LUCA, Gent (BE).
2021 Loops: The snake biting its own tail, Groundhog Day, and the Infinity Cage, lecture and workshop for Re:anima, Genk (BE). Invited by Steven Malliet.
2022 Digital Dimensions. LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, animation and film department. A course exploring digital developments in moving image.
2022 Guest lecture MIND (Media and Information Design), LUCA School of Arts Brussels, invited by Sandy Claes.
2022 Presentation at Unconference, Digisoc at BAC, Leuven (BE).
2022 De Letterzetter. Peer reviewed article for Forum+vol. 29 nr. 2.
2022 Bits & Pieces at Collectie De.Groen, Arnhem (NL). Talk and NFT discussion with Jan Robert Leegte and Ganbrood (Bas Uterwijk). 
2022 Lecture and discussion as part of the Research in the Arts class by Wendy Morris and Laurens Dhaenens for the LUCA audiovisual arts department, Brussels.
2022 NFT feed at Oddstream, Nijmegen (NL). Panel discussion with Inte Gloerich, Rutger van der Tas and Jeroen van der Most. Moderated by Emiel van der Pol.
2022 Loops: The snake biting its own tail, Groundhog Day, and the Infinity Cage, lecture and artistic presentation for Re:anima, LUCA School of Arts, Genk (BE).
2022 Rooted Encounters / Fields, Forests and Other Imaginings, symposium of research cluster dhfm at LUCA, Brussels and Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp (BE). 
2023 Tutor/advisor master's papers Film, LUCA, Brussels (BE). 
2023 Lecture Academie Noord, Brasschaat (BE).
2023 Residency & lecture, Art Lab Gnesta (SE).
2023 Lecture LUCA School of Arts, research in the arts class, Brussels (BE).
2023 Lecture & discussion, Emptiness & Infinite Space IV, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL).
2024 Lecture KdG Advanced Master, Art & Design in the Anthropocene, Antwerp (BE).
2025 Lecture KdG Advanced Master, Digital Cultures, Antwerp (BE).