Meggy Rustamova (°1985) born in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Lives and works in Brussels and Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.
Meggy Rustamova’s practice involves films and installations that articulate images, gestures and sounds and often bear a performative nature.
Concerned with the relations between individual and collective memory, language and human behaviour, her works look for ways to translate contemporary social issues.
EDUCATION
- Post Academic Studies, Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), Ghent (2012-2013)
- Master in Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent (2006-2011)
- Universität der Künste (UdK) Klasse Johan Lorbeer, Berlin (2010)
- Herman Teirlinck Instituut, theaterklas Dora van der Groen, Antwerp (2005-2006)
- Journalism, Erasmus Hogeschool, Brussels (2004-2005)
- Kunsthumaniora Brussel, Art & Drama, Brussels (2000-2004)
RESIDENCY
- Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, New York
- ISELP, with artists collective Messidor, Brussels
- Artist in residence, KultuurKontakt Austria, Vienna
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS | PERFORMANCES
2020
- 'Horaizon', solo exhibition, Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
- 'Babel', screening, Kassel Dokfest, Kassel (DE)
- 'I love today, I can't wait for tomorrow', group exhibition, Beige Brussels (BE)
- 'Babel', screening, Decoratelier & Argos (BE)
2019
- ‘A Speech of Nature’, Performance, ARTER, Istanbul (TR)
- Tënk, video and documentary platform, Screening: 'Waiting for the Secret' (FR)
- 'The HISK Connection', group exhibition, KANAL - Centre Pompidou, Brussels (BE)
- Le Musée de la Photographie, Boîte Noir, solo screening, Charleroi (BE)
- 'The Collection | Highlights for a Future', group exhibition, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
- 'There all is order and beauty', group exhibition, Argos, Brussels (BE)
2018
- 'Floraphilia, Plants as archives', Akademie der Künste der Welt, Academyspace, Cologne (DE)
- RU, 'mono no aware', group exhibition, New York (US)
- 'Personal, Risk Change', Kibla Portal, Maribor (SI)
- 'Un|settled' KAAP, Raversyde, Oostende (BE)
- 'Biënnale van de Schilderkunst', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
- 'State of Statelessness', group exhibition, Iselp, Brussels (BE)
- 'glorious (?) FAILURE', group exhibition, Triënnale Duffel (BE)
- 'Light Displacement', Screening, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (DE)
- 'Time can tell', group exhibition, De Directeurswoning, Roeselare (BE)
- 'Never Walk Alone #3 - Japan', Cc Strombeek-Bever (BE)
- 'Light shifts, Lichte verschuiving', Art's Birthday, M hka, Antwerp (BE)
2017
- 'Light Displacement', solo exhibition, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
-'Cosmic Words', group exhibition, Galería Municipal de Lisboa, Boavista, Lisbon (PT)
- 'Some Arguments Later', group exhibition by Messidor, ISELP, Brussels (BE)
- 'HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply', Nanjing Art Festival, Nanjing (CN)
- 'EUtopia 28', group exhibition, museumcultuur cc Strombeek/Gent, Strombeek-Bever (BE)
- 'Gemini', International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
- 'Homeless Movies', Huis van Alijn, Ghent (BE)
2016
- 'Drawing is Thinking, Thinking is Moving', group exhibition, CIAP, Hasselt (BE)
- 'Waiting for the secret', group exhibition, Halles St-Géry, Brussels (BE)
- 'Wewantosee', Gallery B, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JP)
- Artist in residence, group exhibition, KultuurKontakt Austria and Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna (AT)
- 'Restart', Riga Photography Biennial, Riga (LV)
- 'From the Collection', group exhibition, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
- 'Every letter is a love letter', group exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (EE)
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, screening and group exhibition, Rotterdam (NL)
- 'L'invitation au voyage', screening, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart (DE)
2015
- 'SHE HE SHE SHE HE', solo exhibition, Bureau des Réalités, Brussels (BE)
- 'Observations', solo exhibition, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
- 'How to gather', screening, 6th Moscow Biennale, Moscow (RU)
- 'Videoarbeiten', solo exhibition, Kunstraum für Bewegte Ideen, Düsseldorf (DE)
- 'Displacement of All Places', group exhibition, uqbar, Berlin (DE)
- The Brussels Art Institute, screening, Brussels (BE)
- Film Cologne & Flanders Moving Image, screening during Art Cologne, Köln (DE)
- 'A Space between Words and Images', screening, cinema-w-o-l-k-e, Brussels (BE)
- 'The Future of Memory', group exhibition, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
2014
- 'John Smith, the Posthuman', performance, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)
- 'Disappearing Things', group exhibition, 55th October Salon, Belgrade (RS)
- 'The centre for dying on stage', group exhibition & performance, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (IE)
- 'Een onvervalste leugen', Emergent, Veurne (BE)
- 'Out of character', group exhibition, CAB, Brussels (BE)
- 'Punctum', group exhibition, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
- 'Spots&Dots', Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg (CH)
2013
- 'Perpetual Travellers', group exhibition, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (DE)
- 'Coup De Ville', group exhibition, public and private space, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
- 'Home & Asylum', group exhibition, InBetween, Brussels (BE)
- '(dis)Location', screening, Beursschouwburg, Wiels, Q-O2, in the frame of Performatik, Brussels (BE)
- '(dis)Location', performance and installation, Performatik, Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)
2012
- Secret Postcards, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL)
- Kunstenfestival Watou, group exhibition, Watou (BE)
- Performance, 'How About We Do Something Like This?', 2M3, Brussels (BE)
2011
- Coming People 2011, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
- Kunstsalon, video M.A.M. (My Assyrian Mother), Circa, Ghent (BE)
- Performance & group exhibition, Croxhapox, Ghent (BE)
- Appendix 18, group exhibition, Bijloke, Kiosk pavilion, Ghent (BE)
- Videoscreening M.A.M. (My Assyrian Mother) “Les soirées Flare”, Montpellier (FR)
- Performance and videoscreening, Cinema OFFoff, Ghent (BE)
2010
- Installation 'In Cycli', Arts Festival 0090, Monty, Antwerp (BE)
- Performance invited by Danny Devos & AMVK, Club Moral, Antwerp (BE)
- Open Studios, Universität der Künste, Berlin (DE)
- Group exhibition, curated by PARK, Das Appartement, Berlin (DE)
- Curator and group exhibition, Die Verwandlung, Hotel25, Berlin (DE)
- Group exhibition, The Forgotten Bar/Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin (DE)
2009
- Bâtard Festival, Performance/live installation 'In Cycli', Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
- Group exhibition, Park Spoor Noord, Antwerp (BE)
- Group exhibition 'Bild' Campo victoria, Ghent (BE)
- Performance/live installation 'In Cycli' Campo victoria, Ghent (BE)
- Performance 'How to teach a plant the alphabet' ReAct!, Gynaika, Theatergarage, Antwerp (BE)
- Group exhibition, 'Membership', Espace Ladda, Ghent (BE)
- Performance, ‘How to explain pictures to a dead fish', Nocturne Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (BE)
AWARDS/GRANTS
- VAF Filmlab, Post-Production grant for new film (2020)
- Video prize, Nanjing International Art Festival, China (2017)
- Development grant from the Flemish Government, Ministry of Culture, Belgium (2017)
- 55th October Salon Award, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia (2014)
- Development grant from the Flemish Government, Ministry of Culture, Belgium (2015)
- Stichting René Bruynseraede-De Witte, KASK, Gent, Belgium (2011)
COLLECTIONS
- S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
- M Leuven collection
- Argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels
- Belfius Art Collection, Brussels
- Collection of the Flemish Community
- University College Ghent
- Private collections