À propos

Olivia Hernaïz is a Belgian-Spanish artist born in 1985. She first studied law in Belgium and Argentina. While practicing as a copyright lawyer, she completed a BFA at La Cambre, ENSAV in Brussels. In 2016, she obtained an MFA at Goldsmiths University of London. In January 2022, she was a laureate from the two-years postgraduate HISK programme in Gent, Belgium.

Dialogue is at the core of my work. My projects are all excuses to start conversations others. These discussions first aroused while painting on the streets during the escapologist project Brussels Anti-Demolition Campaign. I then continued to pursue the dialogue through participatory projects as Would you like to make my portrait? questioning the talent criteria, I had no idea engaging with shared authorship, and the board game Art & and My Career where one can place him/herself in the shoes of women in the art world.