Thomas Bellinck

Born in 1983, Brussels-based artist Thomas Bellinck often places questions on the European construction at the heart of his work. He is known in particular for his work focusing on power, politics and systemic violence.

Thomas Bellinck studied Germanic Philology and graduated as a theater director in 2009. The same year, selected for the Flemish Theater Festival for a political initiative with illegalized immigrants on hunger strike, he opened the festival with a speech entitled "We were dying and then we got a prize". In 2010, he co-set up the Steigeisen theater company for the staging of documentary plays. In 2013 Thomas first created "Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo", an ever-evolving futuristic-historical exhibition on “life in the former European Union”. In 2015, Thomas co-established ROBIN, an artist-run production structure for tailor-made artistic work.

From 2017 onwards, he has been working as a PhD researcher at KASK / School of Arts at the University College in Ghent, where he is one of the founding members of The School of Speculative Documentary. Thomas Bellinck is currently developing "Simple as ABC", a series of performances and installations about the apparatus of Western “migration management” and the visual economy of the illegalisation of migration.