monique thomaes

As a Belgian artist, I have been working in Berlin since 1998 after having lived in the Netherlands for twenty years.
After completing a visual arts degree (sculpture and installation) in The Hague, I studied at the Academy for Visual Arts in Rotterdam.
In 1988, I moved to Berlin. This move has had a major impact on my work: it has expanded into the fields of photographic, slide, light, and video installations.

Along with these activities, I have been working for five years as a Guest Professor at the Berlin Universität der Künste.
Between 1999-2002 Guest Professor at the HISK, Antwerp 

My videowork can be seen as a perception of/ reaction to/ spaces, light, time and movement. Meditative, slow, poetic works alternate with works in which image and sound are transformed into dynamic choreographies through the use—and misuse—of montage techniques. The works are, for preference, shown as large-scale projections or distributed among a variety of monitors. They respond to the viewer and to the space in which they are shown. 

My passion for space and architecture that characterises my installations and videowork is implemented the last years in art-in-public-space-projects. In the most of these realised interventions, light and movement play a predominant role.