Honourable Recognitions
2024 Publieksprijs SANT Cultuurcentrum Brugge BE
2024 UFO Artistic Panel Member BE
2024 Projectsubsidie Cultuur Stad Brugge Tentoonstelling Clown Museum BE
2023 Prijs voor Jong / Nieuw Cultureel Talent, Sociaal Culturele Raad Brugge BE
2023 Selection INPUT/OUTPUT Cultuurcentrum Brugge BE
2023 New Talent of Futures Photography EU
2023 .tiff, FOMU Antwerp BE
2021 Selection INPUT/OUTPUT Cultuurcentrum Brugge BE
2021 FIVA 10 mention, el cultural San Martin AR
2021 Afterimages, LUCA School of Arts BE
Academic Education
MA Visual Arts, Photography, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE, 2019 - 2020 (Magna cum laude)
BA Visual Arts, Photography, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE, 2016 - 2019 (Cum laude)
Bio
Eva Maria Bouillon was born in 1997 in Bruges, where she now lives and works. Eva Maria received a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, Photography in LUCA School of Arts (Sint-Lukas Brussels, Belgium) in 2019 followed by a Master’s degree with great distinction in 2020. Since 2017, her work has been included in several group exhibitions and international film festivals. In 2023, Eva Maria’s work was recognised by the nomination and selection of FOMU Antwerp’s ‘.tiff’ trajectory, the inclusion in the European ‘Futures of Photography’ platform and awarded with the ‘Encouragement Prize for Young/New Cultural Talent’ of the Social Cultural Council of Bruges. Since 2023, Eva Maria is a resident in De Tank and was selected to be part of the Artistic Panel of UFO in 2024.
About
The main focus in Eva Maria’s work is on how to tell a story. When she delved into her family history, she became intrigued by hearing the same stories repeated and told from different perspectives. She wondered how she could detach family events from personal experiences and make them relatable to the viewer. With this in mind, she introduced blank spaces to her narrative. These blank spaces might assume the form of empty or white spaces in photographs, silences in sound and stillness in videos. This leaves room for interpretation and potential continuations.
Memories of family events are the main starting point for Eva Maria’s video works. She comes from a small family and grew up with a close bond to her parents and grandparents. During family gatherings and conversations, she became conscious of the roles each person plays in a family by observing their gestures, gazes and subtle interactions. Often these gazes or poses would say more than the words that were spoken.
The family stories described in tableaux vivants become an open scenography. Each viewer can project their own family background or attach their own connections to family. The works not only minutely recall the unease of family gatherings but represent times past. The viewer is thus presented with time lapses that quietly confront us with our own and former generations – and what we believe we stand for.
Text by Els Opsomer for .tiff 2023
Contact
e-mail: evamaria.bouillon@hotmail.com
instagram: @evamaria.bouillon
Initiatives in De Tank
2024 'Clown Museum' group exhibition with work of Juan Pablo Plazas, Sarah Lauwers, Jonas Hollevoet and Sébastien Bovie.
2024 'Penalty Protest' performance co-written with Eva Dinneweth.
2021 'Land is played' group exhibition with work of Judith Desmyttere, Darwin Cabrera, Eva Maria bouillon, Lois Cid, Seppe Vancraywinkel, Bart Walraeve and Miguel Escobar.
Initiatives Elsewhere
2021 'Meander' exhibition program in Het Entrepot with work of Maria-Luiza Grymonprez, Tim Evers and Jules Emile Devoldere.
2019 'Rays of Light' group exhibition in Het Hoekhuis with work of Dajo Vandenbussche, Eva Maria Bouillon and Leila Feys.
Ongoing Exhibition installation & Set Photography
Selected Recent Collaborations
2024 Penalty Protest
2024 Video with Juan Pablo Plazas Saenz
2023 Set Photography for Lucile Desamory’s film production of De Wervelende Wirwar
2023 Video for Hans Demeulenaere’s duo exhibition and publication ‘Incomplete Neighbour’ with Raffaella Crispino
Present And Upcoming
23.11.2024 Penalty Protest Screening + Panel Talk 18:30 Mutation Festival, Wintercircus Auditorium Gent BE
05.12.2024 - 08.12.2024 Emerging Artistic Talent Festival The Solo Project, Vanderborghtgebouw Brussels BE
Past
2024 SANT, (audience award) Hendrik Pickeryzaal, Bruges BE
2024 PRISMA (curatorial) Queer Arts Festival, Bruges BE
2024 Kayin Luys & Eva Maria Bouillon + Open Air Filmscreening MOOOV Bruges BE
2024 Clown Museum, De Tank, Bruges BE
2023 INPUT/OUTPUT 2023, Poortersloge CC Brugge, Bruges BE
2023 .tiff, FOMU, Antwerp BE
2023 Tussen Zien en Staren, Bogardenkapel CC Brugge, Bruges BE
2022 PROYECTOR Festival de Videoarte, Secuencia de Inútiles, Madrid ES
2022 Please follow the family, Kunstenal 86, Bruges BE
2021 Eva Maria Bouillon, Rustenburg, Bruges BE
2021 FIVA 10, (honourable mention) El Cultural, San Martin AR
2021 INPUT/OUTPUT 2021, Poortersloge CC Brugge, Bruges BE
2021 (An)other, Artroze, Wetteren BE
2021 Land is played, De Tank, Bruges BE
2021 The kitchen cabinet, V01trine, Brussels BE
2021 Ondersporen, CC Hasselt, Hasselt BE
2021 Ithaka #29, Leuven BE
2021 Videonline Festival, Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels BE
2021 De Nabije Toekomst, De Markten, Brussels BE
2020 Zonsondergang, De Andere Kijk, Bruges BE
2020 Graduation Show ‘Unlocked’, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE
2020 Try-out Gallery ‘Eva Maria Bouillon & Miguel Escobar’, Backlight Collective in De Tank, Bruges BE
2020 Dis(M)asters of Photography, Noordstation, Brussels BE
2019 Vitrine, TIHF, Bruges BE
2019 Rays of Light, Het Hoekhuis, Bruges BE
2019 Buren bij kunstenaars, Klokhof, Loppem BE
2019 Eva Maria Bouillon, Kasteel van Loppem, Loppem BE
2019 Galloping Minds, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE
2019 Wolk was, brak as, zwarte sneeuw, Terrarium, Brussels BE
2018 Printed matter, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE
2018 Yesterday Is Here, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE
2017 With Every Intention Of, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE
2017 .NEG, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE
Talks / Publications / Workshops
2024 Kunstenpunt Flemish-Dutch Professional Photography Meeting, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam NL
2024 Workshop Video for the Young Curators programme of Musica Impulscentrum, Concertgebouw, Bruges BE
2023 WAWWA INPUT/OUTPUT Nocturne Tekensessie, Poortersloge CC Brugge, Bruges BE
2023 Futures International New Talent Magazine EU
2023 Futures International New Talent Meeting, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest HU
2023 .tiff Talks, FOMU, Antwerp BE
2023 Zine publication for Sand Mountain Press, Konvooi Art Festival Bruges BE
2023 Belgian Photo Meeting, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles FR
2023 .tiff Magazine for FOMU, Antwerp BE
2023 DIP Talk for LUCA School of Arts, Brussels BE
2022 Interview for PROYECTOR, Madrid ES
2021 Workshop Video, Het Entrepot, Bruges BE
2021 Interview for De Standaard Magazine, Gent BE