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P R I V A T E F O U N D A T I O N

Private Foundation [private stichting] van Biesen-Mestdagh, Estate & Archive.

the Milena principle

Annemie Mestdagh & Stefaan van Biesen
Kleine Boomgaardstraat 14

9120 Melsele Beveren Belgium.

Mobile : +32(0)472862542

Resume activities:

• The CKV (Centrum Kunstarchieven Vlaanderen/ Center for Art Archives of Flanders) is a central hub for the distributed care of art archives and estates. It is an operationally autonomous organization within M HKA (Museum Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen/ Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), focused on the preservation, sustainable public access and active fielding of visual art archives in public and private management.

The private Van Biesen-Mestdagh Foundation manages the archives of the Milena principle (independent international art platform), Wit Urban-Team and Stefaan van Biesen's own artistic legacy and is in consultation with the CVK.

• Member and co-organizer of WALK [Walking Arts and Local Communities] a four-year international project, co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe. The project aims to promote cooperation between communities in rural and natural settings by using walking as an artistic and participatory practice.

• Founding member of Art/NaturSci Movement [Mary Patricia Warming USA/Berlin] 2020.

• Member of the ArtScience Exhibits community Berlin [Humboldt University] 2018. Part of Earth Connections, a traveling art work archive. Manifest/o for the inaugural exhibit of the Art/NaturSci Movement. Curated by Mary Patricia Warming [USA/Berlin].

• Active as a member of a civic platform STOFF that seeks to repurpose special trees as urban as landscape memorials. This is in the context of asbestos victims, with hundreds more being diagnosed with lung cancer every year. The result of an ecological tragedy and concealed pollution for profit, which is an acute public health hazard. Together with his wife Annemie Mestdagh, they created an educational school program on the subject of pollution, ecology and nature awareness.

• Menber of the Grand Jury for the Sound Walk September Awards of walk · listen · create (WLC) 2024.

• Co-founder and president of VZW RASA [art education for youngsters] (1994-1999).

• Co-founder and member of the Milena principle [international independent art platform, since 2000]. Curator Artemis Potamianou (MOMA NY & Tate London UK), who is currently based in Athens, considers the Milena principle as one of the 49 most important independent art platforms from all over the world, distinguishing themselves by working on unconventional ways and by establishing unexpected and influential debates on art. [the Milena principle was selected by Artemis Potamianou for the Athens Art Fair, ART-ATHINA 2014/2015/2017, Platforms project 2018].

• Former member of China Blue, A Blue Supreme [2018] & WIT Urban Team [Warp Coup de Ville 2010].

• President of the Private Foundation van Biesen-Mestdagh [since 2005].

• Works in several private collections and museums in Europe, Brazil and China. Worked as an artist in Belgium • Netherlands • France • Germany • United Kingdom • Poland • Italy• Serbia • Greece • Cyprus •ortugal • Brazil • USA and China •

• Soundscapes and compositions for theater plays, choreograhphy, performances, art video and international sound art events.

• Wikipedia: research/publishing Wikipedia pages on deceased or still active artists who have made significant contributions to the world of the arts, both pedagogically and for their artistic legacy.