Biography


Stéphanie Roland is a Brussels-based visual artist and filmmaker. 
Hovering between documentary and imaginary, her films and installations explore the invisible structures of the Western world, the large scales of time, and hyperobjects. She draws her inspiration from a wide range of subjects, from environmentalism and politics to geology and the cosmos.

Having graduated from Brussels’ La Cambre and studied with Hito Steyerl at the UDK Berlin, she completed a course in France at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Her projects regularly feature in exhibitions at internationally renowned institutions, such as the Venice Biennale, the Centre Pompidou, the Louvre, the Benaki Museum, the Botanique, the Kampala International Art Biennale, Wiels, and ISELP. Breda Photo, Belfast Photo Festival, Encontros da Imagem, BIP Liège, Month of Photography Los Angeles are some of the photography festivals in which she has participated.

Her films have been shown at international festivals such as Visions du Réel, FID Marseille, Festival dei Popoli, ZINEBI Bilbao, FEST New Directors / New Films, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Curtas Cinema and PÖFF Shorts Tallin black nights, to name but a few. Her first film, Podesta Island, won the Alice Guy prize at the FID Marseille while her second, Le cercle vide, won the TËNK prize at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon.




Awards / Grants
2025
NTAA Award, Liedts-Meesen Fondation
Aide à la conception, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

2023
Chroniques Biennale award, special mention
Territoires en Images, Special mention Best documentary
Aide à l’édition, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Film Lab, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Enjeux de demain, Bourse SCAM x ORANGE
GSARA, aide aux repérages

2022

TËNK Award, Visions du Réel (laureate)
Lichter Film Award (shortlist)
Silver lynx for experimental film (honorable mention)
ARRI Award for best documentary (laureate)

2022
TËNK Award, Visions du Réel (laureate)
Lichter Film Award (shortlist)
Silver lynx for experimental film (honorable mention)
ARRI Award for best documentary (laureate)

2021
Prix Alice Guy, FID Marseille (laureate)
Bourse Nouveaux mondes, ministère de la culture (laureate)
Bourse Futur pour la culture, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles (laureate)

2020
Bourse Neuflize OBC, Fresnoy (laureate)
Prix Studio Collector, Fresnoy (shortlisted)
Maribor Photobook award, runner-up prize (laureate)
Best dutch books (shortlisted)
The best photobooks of the year - international category, PHotoEspaña (shortlisted)
Aide à l'édition, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (laureate)

2019
Prix Jeunes Artistes, Parlement FWB (shortlisted)
BMW Residency Award (shortlisted)
Aide à la mobilité, WBI (laureate)

2018
Salomon Foundation Award (shortlisted)

2017
Unseen Dummy Award (shortlisted)
Aide à la création, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (laureate)
Gomma grant Catalogue (shortlisted)
Grand Prix Vevey Images (shortlisted)

2016
Antarctic Biennale young artist open call (laureate)

2015
Oskar Barnack Leica award (shortlisted)
Lodz Grand Prix Foto Festiwal 2015 (shortlisted)
SMart Grant (laureate)
Woluwe award (shortlisted)

2014
Prix Voix Off, Arles (shortlisted)
Aide à la création, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (laureate)
HSBC award (shortlisted)

2013
SPES grant (laureate)
Lucie Foundation scholarship (shortlisted)
UCO Grant La fragua / Cordoba University (laureate)
Vocatio Grant, Vocatio Fondation de la vocation (laureate)

2012
Full contact award 2012, Scan Tarragona International festival of photography (laureate)

2011
Ecrea Award 2011, Emergent International festival of visual arts, Lleida (laureate)
Prix du public  Médiatine 2011, Brussels (laureate)

2010
Prix Coups de coeur, Les amis de La Cambre group (laureate)
Beaufort Prize (shortlisted)

2008
MIT European Short Film Festival, Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston (shortlisted)



Collective exhibitions


      2025
      Une rencontre étrange et heureuse
      , Lieux communs, Auvers-sur-Oise
      Two suns & two moons, Malta Society of arts, Valetta
      Tipping Point, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
      Belgomania, Villa Pérochon, Centre d’art photographique, Niort
      NTAA, Fondation Liedts-Meesen, Ghent


      2024
      Dans tes brumes, Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Paris
      Scopitone, Nantes
      Arpenter les Lieux, CACLB - Centre d’art Contemporain du Luxembourg
      Stellar Scape, Pavillon, Namur
      Archipels fantômes, île Nouvelle, France 
      Mystery bag, La mercerie, Art Brussels
      Dans la Nature, Espace Ganter, Belfort
      Festival ZERO1, La Rochelle

      2023
      La Fragua. Artist Residency, Fundación Botí, Córdoba
      Le pôle d’inaccessibilité, Galerie Elektra, Montreal
      Scopitone, Nantes
      Capture, Pavillon, Namur
      Faire croître des plantes dans l’obscurité, El Bòlit, Girona
      The infinity of grapes, CNEAI, Paris
      Open studio, POELP, Brussels
      Mondes nouveaux, Beaux Arts Paris
      Paysage. Fenêtre sur la nature, Louvre-Lens
      Design a book, Bibliothèque Wittockania, Brussels
      Memories gone wild / Fictive archive investigations, ISELP, Brussels

      2022
      Onomatopées, Galerie Huberty & Breyne
      Open Doors, POELP Ateliers
      Paréidolies – en quête de formes, La Châtaigneraie, Flémalle
      Biennale Chroniques, Fondations Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence

      2021
      Biennale Image tangible, Paris
      There Is No Such Thing as Abstract Art, Emergent, Furnes
      Etoffes, Centre de la Laine, Verviers
      Deus ex machina, Musée de Soissons
      20m2, public space, Brussels
      Panorama 23, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing
      La nouvelle vague, Biennale du Condroz
      Le court en dit long, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
      In extremis, Galerie Confluence, Nantes

      2020
      Inside-out, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
      Panorama 22, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing
      Exi(s)t, public space, Brussels
      The Eriskay Connection, POST, Tokyo
      Narration.s, La vallée, Brussels
      Digital Icons, MILL Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière
      Imprimé / Intimité / Collection, Galerie UQO, Gatineau, Quebec

      2019
      Gigantisme, Biennale organized by FRAC Dunkerque
      Prix Jeunes Artistes FWB, Wiels, Brussels
      Etalage tactile, Recyclart, Brussels
      Greetings by Superstudio - Architecture as Political Instrument, Haus Der Arkitektur, Graz
      Stormy weather, Arnhem Museum
      À revoir sans modération, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot
      Bientôt Déjà Hier, ARTour Biennale, MMDD - Site du Bois-du-Luc
      S.O.S., Muzee Scheveningen, The Hague
      Aurora Eterna, Officina della Scrittura, Turin
      No Rain No Stones, Pinguin, Brussels
      Capture, Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels

      2018
      [Cloitre]#1, Cloître, Brussels
      Pilotage, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot
      Fusée de la Motographie, C/O Berlin
      Focus sur la nouvelle collection, Médiatine, Brussels
      Fusée de la Motographie, Rolling paper #2, Le Bal, Paris
      Nuances d'acier, Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière
      Arslan Alumni, UDK, Berlin
      Zone bleue, Pop Up Atelier Synoptique Portatif, Brussels
      I still believe in miracles, Penthouse, Brussels
      Unseen Photobook Award, Photobookfest, Moscow
      Topographie de la subversion, Halles Saint Gery, Brussels

      2017
      A Bao A Qou, Baumhaus Luxembourg
      10 years, Residencia Corazón, Buenos Aires
      Racovitza symposium, Vaslui county museum, Romania
      Unseen dummy award, Unseen, Amsterdam
      Tendencies, Bozar, Brussels
      Make the great great again, GNF Gallery, Brussels
      Nature fertile, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot
      Tu me manques, Galerie haute - Arts², Mons
      Art & Swap, Saldias Station, Buenos Aires
      Antarctic Pavillion, Venice Biennale

      2016
      Interférences, KIKK Festival, Namur
      Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie Triangle Bleu
      Seven hills, Kampala Biennale, Uganda
      Interfaces, Urbana Project, Bozar, Bruxelles
      3 X 10, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot
      Next flood, 38CC, Delft, NL
      Heterotopia, Vleurgat 82, Brussels

      2015
      Espèces d'espaces, Les abbatoirs de Bomel, Namur
      Power and illusion, Encontros da Imagem, Braga
      186 Louise, Brussels
      Reframe Memory, Benaki Museum, Athens
      Portraits n°3, Centre Culturel Valery Larbaud, Vichy
      Belfast Photo Festival
      Super / Natural, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, USA

      2014
      Manifesto, Festival d'images, Toulouse
      Songs for the heart, Breda International Photo Festival
      Sensus, galerie triangle bleu, Stavelot
      Contempo, 6th contemporary art festival, Varna, Bulgaria
      Parkunst, Hôtel Communal de Woluwé, Bruxelles
      Notre horizon s'ouvre ici, Artothèque de Wolubilis, Bruxelles
      Reviewed 2013, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee
      Mixing identities , Palazzo Barone Ferrara, Bari, Italy
      Photo L.A., 23rd Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, Los Angeles

      2013
      Science frictions, La Fragua, Belalcazar, Spain
      Border body - Mixing cities and identities, MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artístico, Almeria
      Border body - Mixing cities and identities, gallery MD_S, Wrocław
      Exposition de la francophonie, Acropole, Nice
      Quarante œuvres pour le temps futur, Centre culturel Jacques Frank, Brussels
      Focus sur la collection de l’Artothèque, Artothèque, Brussels
      Out of focus, Videoholica Video Art Festival, Bulgaria
      Border Cities & New Identities, The Water Plant, Uzina de Apa, Suceava, Romania
      Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities, Espoonsilta Gallery, Espoo, Finland
      Los Angeles and beyond, MOPLA Month of photography, Los Angeles
      Print Art Fair, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

      2012
      End of the world party, Galerie Nadine Feront, Brussels
      Confessions, Saint-Loup church, Namur
      Rencontres d'été, Les plachettes, Flobecq

      2011
      Ecrea award 2011, Emergent International festival of visual arts, Lleida, Spain
      Prix Médiatine 2011, Brussels

      2009
      Two openings, Mobile Institute, Brussels

      2008
      MIT European Short Film Festival, Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston
      UDK Show of Fine Arts, UDK Gallery, Berlin




      Collective exhibitions
      > The screening’s lists are available in each film sections



      Solo shows

      2022
      Blue Marble, ISELP, Brussels

      2021
      Le pôle d'inaccessibilité, Le Vecteur, Charleroi

      2018
      Big Crunch, Cloître, Brussels

      2017
      Home oxymoron, Biennale Watch This Space, 50° Nord

      2016
      L'horizon du trou noir, Biennale de l'Image Possible, Liège

      2015
      Trou noir et rituels familiaux, Vu Photo, Québec
      The Family Paradox, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot

      2014
      Ideal city, The Folio Club, Barcelona
      Ideal city, Galery Shortcuts, Namur

      2013
      Ideal city, Fundació Forvm, Tarragona
      Ciudad Ideal, Residencia Corazón, La Plata, Buenos Aires

      2011
      _ _ : _ _ , B-gallery, Brussels
      Les enfants-modèles, Botanique, Brussels





      Curating
      2020
      Lucas Leffler solo show, Pinguin, Brussels
      2019
      Shifting Foundations, Hectolitre, Brussels



      Residencies
      2024
      Headland Center for arts

      2023

      SoundImageCulture

      2019
      Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains (> 2021)
      Fiskars AIR, Finland

      2018
      Villa Lena, Italy
      Cloître, Brussels

      2016
      Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin
      Nida Art Colony, Lithuania

      2015
      Kala Art Institute, Berkeley

      2013
      Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
      Residencia Corazon, La Plata, Buenos Aires
      La fragua, Belalcazar, Cordoba, Spain



      Academic
      > teacher

      — Workshop, Ecole de Design de Nantes
      — Workshop, Ecole de recherche graphique, Bruxelles
      — Guest teacher at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris

      > Student

      — Post-graduate studies, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains
      — Master's exchange programme, UDK - Berlin college of Arts, Media Arts Department
      — Master’s degree in Visual 
Communication, La Cambre - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels, with High Distinction










      Stéphanie Roland Studio