Ana Torfs

Ana Torfs (born in 1963, Mortsel) is a Belgian visual artist.

In her installations she uses a wide range of reproducible media, including slide projections, audio, photographs, prints, video, tapestries, and film.

Life[]

Torfs studied communication science at the University of Leuven and film and video at the Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels. Torfs has lived and worked in Brussels since 1986.^[1]

Torfs has had solo exhibitions at the Pori Art Museum in Finland,^[2] in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon,^[3] at Wiels, Centre for Contemporary Arts in Brussels, 2014, at Generali Foundation in Vienna in 2010, at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf in 2010, at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, 2008, at the Argos Centre for Art and Media in Brussels in 2007, at daadgalerie in Berlin, 2006, at  [de] in Bremen in 2006, and at Bozar in Brussels in 2000. She has participated in numerous international group exhibitions including the 8th Contour Biennial in Mechelen in 2017,^[4] the Parasophia International Festival of Contemporary Culture in Kyoto, 2015, the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias in 2014, the Sharjah Biennial in 2013, the Manifesta 9 in Genk in 2012, the 2nd La Biennale de Montreal in 2000 and the 3rd Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in 1995.^[5][1] In 2004 she was invited by the Dia Art Foundation in New York to create a web project.^[6]

In 2004, A Prior Magazine 10 was dedicated to the work of Ana Torfs.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• "Ana Torfs' web site".