Born 1975 in Diest, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Filip Van Dingenen is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of the Ecole Mondiale in Brussels. In his process-oriented approach he uses a wide range of different methods and outputs, which merge participatory strategies and social and environmental relevance, within the themes of recreation, heritage and education. His oeuvre stands alongside the specific object-oriented making of art. He is a researcher who tries to fathom the course of events in the complex world through a roundabout way. In fact, he can be seen as an anthropologist-artist who tries to map the world a little more insightfully through story and research. Filip Van Dingenen starts from socially striking fait-divers and extrapolates those items into broader thoughts, whereby all information sought and “experienced” also becomes an inherent and visible part of the project.
Filip van Dingenen was a researcher at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent/Brussels and an affiliated researcher at the Laboratory of Education and Society at KU Leuven. He was also a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy (2013), associate artist in residence with Mark Dion at ACA (2008), and developed projects in Artist Residency Programs at Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008), Wiels Art Center (2009) Banff Arts Center (2013), Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2015) and worked in Ireland, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. He has written numerous articles for journals and magazines and has authored several artist books. His works and performances were presented at 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018), Biennale de Casablanca (2018), LIAF, Norway (2017), Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (2013), Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro (2009), Centro Cultural Español en Bata (2008), Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona (2006), 7hours Haus19 - Humboldt University & Museum for Natural History Berlin (2005).