He obtained a bachelor’s in fine arts at the University of Granada in Spain. Upon graduating in 1997, he moved to the Netherlands and completed his postgraduate studies at Fontys Academy (Tilburg, Netherlands), HISK (Antwerp, Belgium) and Ohio State University (Ohio, USA).

He has participated in numerous exhibitions in national and international institutions, such as: CAC (Malaga, Spain), MACBA (Barcelona, Spain), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), Imperial Belvedere Palace (Vienna, Austria), ARTIUM (Vitoria, Spain), Maison Particulière Art Center (Brussels, Belgium), MUSAC (Leon, Spain), BB6 Bucharest International Biennale for Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), B.P.S. 22 (Charleroi, Belgium), 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki , Greece).

Guillaume Bijl is known for his large-scale installations and visual realism. Since the late 70s, Bijl created realistic decors using found objects. In doing this, he had a pioneering role in the resurgence of the ready-made.

Bijl shows the audience various aspects of our western ‘civilisation’ and consumer society. Using extreme stereotypes, he creates a sort of ‘archeology of our time’ in a tragi-comedic, alienating way.

His participation will be a great opportunity to reflect on his practice in light of a Surrealist strand that continues to reverberate into today’s art practices.

Vinicius Couto, artvist and creative director, researches gender, race, class, sexuality, LGBT movements and their intersections, with the intention of awakening new formats of reflection. At the center of his work, the artist questions the imaginary constructed by non-normative corpses.

In the visual arts, cinema, theatre and fashion, he seeks to combat the daily reproductions of violence to which his (our) body is subjected.

In 2016, after contracting HIV, Vinicius was self-provoked to openly perform his HIV status, aware of the possibilities that his body promotes itself. Planning his coming out of the AIDS closet, he created "Libertar-ser"in 2017. On the following year, he created "I=I or "Undetectable = Untransmissible". It premiered at the Cairo Biennale - EG in 2018, and was exhibited at MAM-SP and CMA Hélio Oiticica - RJ in 2019. Throughout his research as an artist, he uses experience as a definition for the theory of (his) existence. And in 2021, he was selected to be one of the residents of Kovent.zer0.

His provocation comes, above all, in the use of desire as a form of deconstruction, in (re)existing in the face of decolonial processes, of anti-heroism in the representations of power and induced consumption as a gay, Latin American, of peripheral origin.

After they settled in house “Les Nénuphars”, in the prestigious Cogels Osylei in Antwerp, Belgium in May 1968, Luc Deleu and his wife Laurette Gillemot founded T.O.P. office, a studio for urbanism and architecture in 1970.

The starting point, motivation and goal of the studio was questioning architecture and urban design, their position and duty in a global society. This generated the necessity to think about why and how to run an architect studio and how to direct it towards a truly independent and autonomous development with the use of a large set of media.

So, T.O.P. office was set up with the very conviction that it would be better to reduce the spatial impact of building and to build less. Convinced that future developments in communication media would enable a reborn nomadic life, the first ideas were to come with work that emphasizes mobility versus the immobilism of real estate and to contradict the exclusive privilege of the building as living and job accommodation.

On many occasions - apart from being an independent research team developing an autonomous format for urban research by design – T.O.P office participated in the debate on urban planning and architecture, and therefore maybe ended up in a certain niche.