PROJECTS
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Here but not here
2024 - ongoing
a series of works exploring criminal justice and the punishment industry
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Simple as ABC
2015 - ongoing
a series of performances and installations examining the European Union’s border regime
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Domo de Eūropa Historio en Ekzilo
2013 - 2018
the first international exhibition on life in the former European Union
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Steigeisen
2009 - 2015
performances created with the documentary theatre company Steigeisen
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Crossings
ongoing
collaborations with other artists
CALENDAR 25-26
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Borders, (im)mobilities and databases
23.10.25
DINOBORD / IT UNIVERSITY (Copenhagen)
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Barzakh
10 - 16.12.25
OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN (Antwerp)
THOMAS BELLINCK
is a Brussels-based artist. He creates performances and installations based on audio recordings, with a strong focus on memory politics, state-sponsored violence and practices of detention.
In 2009, after having studied linguistics and literature at the University of Leuven, Thomas graduated as a theatre director from the Brussels Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound. Since then, he has been a founding member of documentary theatre company Steigeisen, artistic production platform ROBIN and The School of Speculative Documentary.
In 2013, Thomas built ‘Domo de Eūropa Historio en Ekzilo’, a futuristic-historical museum about life in the former European Union. The immersive installation was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Wiener Festwochen, The Flemish Theatre Festival, Fast Forward Festival in Athens, Wiesbaden Biennale and Festival de Marseille.
Since 2015, Thomas has been working on ‘Simple as ABC’, a growing series of performances and installations zooming in on the European Union’s border policies. The series includes a.o. an interview musical on border surveillance technology and an ever-evolving human-hunting museum. In 2024, together with people detained at several Belgian prisons and composer Osama Abdulrasol, Thomas created the opera ‘Barzakh’.
Thomas is also a doctoral researcher in the arts at Ghent University and KASK / School of Arts of the University College Ghent. As a lecturer, he has given classes and workshops at a.o. KASK in Ghent, La Cambre in Brussels, NYU Abu Dhabi and DAMU in Prague.
MATERIALS
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libretto, co-authored with people detained at several Belgian prisons
2025
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