Sandra Muteteri Heremans

Sandra Muteteri Heremans is a visual artist and filmmaker with a background in art history and anthropology. Born in Rwanda and raised for the most part in Belgium, Heremans is interested in the artistic and political legacies of the twentieth-century in today’s world. Her current research for a film in progress investigates the experiences of African students who studied in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Through these protagonists, Heremans charts transnational lives in the context of newly independent states, showing the complex entanglements between the communist “Second World” and the national liberation movements the “Third World” sought to establish, and in so doing, excavates and reactivates histories buried under decades of myopic “First World” triumphalism.

• "Teta" - Work in Progress (2024)
• "Les silences des corps en mouvement" - (2023)
• "La Mazda Jaune et Sa Sainteté " - (2018)

2025

• collage (Print), the administrative surroundings of Gilbert Basebya, czech republic, as part of exhibition, Displacements and Torrents

Where the Dnipro and the Elbe Meet, in House of Arts, Czech Republic. 24.04 - 26.07.24

2024

• Lecture - performance, In search of Gilbert and Idrissa : African students in the Soviet Union ’, Paris, Cité des Arts, exhibition Displacements and Torrents. Where the Dnipro and the Elbe Meet, 11.12.24

2023

• Lecture - performance, with Maxime Jean-Baptiste, ‘The first Image she told me about’, Nona,
  Mechelen, Contour Biennale, 21.10.23
• Lecture - performance, In Search of Gilbert and Idrissa: African students in the USSR –
  Performing the Past, Moussem Stages, Decoratelier, 19.10.23
• Lecture - performance, In Search of Gilbert and Idrissa : African students in the USSR –
  Performing the Past, The Mosaic Rooms, Contemporary Culture from the Arab World and
  Beyond, London, 2023.
• Exhibition: Family Matters at Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, may-june, 2023.

2022 

• Lecture-performance and publication, as part of Lectures on the Weather, Performance
  and fieldwork, curator, fieldwork, curator, Anna Smolak, Tanzit.ro/Bucharest and
  Experimental Station of Research on Art and life, Silistea Snagovului, Romania, 2022
• Lecture performance in Performance, Entre le Néant et l’infini, je me mis à pleurer,
  Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Le Rideau, mai 2022, Brussels, Belgium.
• Exhibition: “Don’t worry baby” and Poster, Group Exhibition, Project Palace, a centenary,
  Bozar, Centre of fine arts, Brussels, Belgium.

2021

• Exhibition: Wall drawing “the administrative surroundings of Gilbert Basebya”, Group
• Exhibition, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels, Belgium.
  
• Performative lecture and curated film programme, Beaufort, Mu. Zee, 31 octobre (in
  collaboration with Maxime Jean-Baptiste)

• Artist-in-Residence - Moussem, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
• Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (2021)

Heremans, Sandra, In search of Basebya Gilbert : Exploring the experiences of African students in the
USSR through fiction’, in: Places in the sun: post-colonial dialogues in Europe and beyond., ed.
Valentin Luntumbue etc., 2021.

Heremans, Sandra, In search of Gilbert and Idrissa: African Students in the USSR, publication on bak, https://www.bakonline.org/en/research+publications/prospections/in+search+of+gilbert+and+idrissa++african+students+in+the+ussr/