BIOMAB Program 2012-2015

About BIOMAB
"Biological and Medical Art in Belgium - BIOMAB vzw pleit met klem voor vrije geesten, scheppingsdrang die voortvloeit uit een kritisch instinct en een houding die zich vaak afzet tegen wat onwrikbaar lijkt." (NL)

"Biological and Medical Art in Belgium - BIOMAB association urges that free spirits, creative impulse resulting from a critical instinct and an attitude that often opposes what seems unshakable." (E)

Description

Independent, non-profitable and non-governmental Belgian association that offers an interdisciplinary and international program for artists, scholars, and scientists, founded in 2010 by Pascale Pollier-Green (Medical Artist), Ann Van de Velde (Hematologist) and Francis Van Glabbeek (Anatomist & Orthopedic Surgeon)

 

Courses, Workshops and Art Exhibitions

• Annual Dissection Class (March)

Example 2012: http://biomedicalart.blogspot.be/2012/01/new-ars-dissection-drawing-marathon.html

• Medical Art Meeting and Exhibition, Antwerp Medical Days (September)

Example 2012: http://biomedicalart.blogspot.be/2012/09/pharmacopoeia-art-of-popping-pills-3th.html

• ART RESEARCHES SCIENCE (ARS) - International Collaboration
  Partners: University of Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine; Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen - Royal Academy of Fine Arts; Karel de Grote Hogeschool Antwerpen - Sint Lucas Antwerpen; London, Dundee, Strasbourg and New York

More information: http://art-researches-science.blogspot.be/2010/05/beginning-6-may-2010.html

Next meeting: http://biomedicalart.blogspot.be/2012/11/art-researches-science-board-meeting.html

• Quincentenary Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564) - Greece (and abroad)

In May 2014, under the auspices of the municipality of Zakynthos and together with the Embassy of Belgium in Athens, BIOMAB will coordinate events commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius in Brussels. The Flemish physician, the father of modern human anatomy, died on Zakynthos, Greece, in 1564.
- 'Vesalii Continuum': International Symposium on Art and Science

- 'Fabricae Vitae': international (traveling) exhibition on contemporary Medical Art

More information: www.vesalius2014.be

• Quincentenary Andreas Vesalius (1514 - 1564) - Antwerp, Belgium

'The Art of Vesalius' - Colloquia and Medical Art Exhibition in Antwerp, May 2014 - April 2015

More information (in Dutch): http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.ARTOFVESALIUS&n=110996

 

Contact information
Biological and Medical Art in Belgium - BIOMAB vzw
University of Antwerp
UZA Hematology - Wilrijkstraat 10
2650 Edegem (Antwerp)
Contact: Ann Van de Velde; Pascale Pollier-Green
Tel: 0032474528852; 004447847367549
Mail: pascale@artem-medicalis.com
Website: http://biomedicalart.blogspot.be/