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MTWalls is proud to be one of the three nominees in the category ‘best starting webshop of the year’ . MTwalls was selected by a jury of experts out of 41 entries.

Jan Kriekels, president of the jury: “We were pleasantly surprised by the high number of entries, especially with the unknown high number of 41 starting webshops”.

Click here to read the whole press release.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the final on May 10th!

— The MTWalls team

Program

• 19h00 - 19h30: Book Launch of Creative Jumpers by Walter Van Andel - “How companies in the creative sector can be succesful - 11 case studies”
   
• 19h30 - 19h45: Announcement of winners MTWalls Talent Award
   
• 19h45 - 00h00: Official opening party of MTWalls’ latest Art Exhibition “Walk A Mile In Someone Else’s Shoes”

Details

• Official opening of MTWalls’ exhibition “Walk A Mile In Someone Else’s Shoes ” (a story by Imagina Writings) featuring several of our artists
  (Paul Bulteel, Guillaume Carels, Monique Jansen, Charles Stuyck, Barbara Steyaert, Isaline Van Der Straten, Sus Bogaerts, Jeroen Broeckx, Mathias Ivens and many more) 
• Winners of MTWalls Talent award will receive their prizes and showcase their work 
• Deejay Commonphase (Temposphere, Culture club, Make up) will play funky tunes
• Free beer all night, thanks to Palm Urban Crafts
• Free snacks and drinks, thanks to Le Pain d’Anvers & Acco
• Special surprise acts, a.o. by The Wildlife Art Collective
   

Registration

• To make sure we have enough beer in the fridge and snacks on the tables, we require you to register.
  Sign up our exclusive guest list on: http://eepurl.com/kZaOT

Location

• Foyer ‘t Brantijser
  Antwerp Management School
  Sint-Jacobsmarkt 9-13
  2000 Antwerp
  
  Click here for a map 

On Thursday 3 May, MTWalls will transform the foyer of the Antwerp Management School into a fancy art happening. We open our newest photography exhibition with a mix of original performances, outstanding music by DJ Commonphase (Temposphere, Culture Club, Make-up), featuring Creative Jumpers for the launch of a new book and… Free Drinks!!
 

Don’t miss this exclusive evening!
Register here, only limited availability:
 

http://eepurl.com/kZaOT 
 

Start at 19:00
AMS - Het Brantijzer
Sint-Jacobsmarkt 9
Antwerpen 
 

Free drinks and beer thanks to Pain d’Anvers and Palm Urbancrafts
 

For all our Tour of Flanders / Ronde van Vlaanderen lovers we have a surprise…
Free Shipping of our historic pictures of the Tour of Flanders.
Action only lasts until the end of the race, so be a winner and order now!

Use the following code when ordering: 0319AD

 

*only valid to Belgium addresses

We are proud to offer you an exclusive and limited edition of historic pictures of the Tour of Flanders / Ronde van Vlaanderen. Six vintage shots of Flanders’ most beautiful cycling race, each with a strong story behind it, are now available.

Be quick, offer only lasts until Liège-Bastogne-Liège!

   

Do you have a keen eye for photography?
Can you capture a creative and stunning photo?
And would you like your pictures to be featured in our next MTWalls exhibition? 

Than show us and all our fans your talents on Facebook! 

Upload your most catching pictures and vote on your favorite submissions. The best pictures win: 
- Your picture featured on the MTWalls exhibition in Antwerp 
- Your picture featured on MTWalls 
- Gift voucher, worth 150 EUR 

All pictures compete for: 
CHOICE OF THE PUBLIC PUBLIC: selected based on Facebook Likes 
CHOICE OF PROFESSIONAL JURY 

The jury is composed by three people: 
Johan Swinnen, professor at the VUB, Hogeschool Antwerpen and Université de la Sorbonne, Paris and art critic for several international photography magazines. 
Tom Gastmans, senior picture consultant at Belga News Agency and managing the Germaine Van Parys collection. 
Thomas Madoe and Edmond Van Steenberge, founders of MTWalls.

Click here to compete and vote!

One of our photographers, Paul Bulteel, was selected for the International Photo Festival Knokke-Heist 2012. Congratulations, Paul!!

The Brussels art scene has found its way to MTWalls! We are very glad to welcome 4 new photographers. Let us introduce you…

Fred Beard
“Photography has been a love of mine for a long time; in fact I have been passionate about photography and images since I was a small child. I feel a deep emotion when looking at photos and consider emotion as the key factor when it comes to creating images. In all cases, whether I’m looking at a portrait, a landscape or an everyday situation, the image needs to convey meaning, be suggestive and to raise questions within me. My goal is to convey these feelings through my own work. I could rattle off a list of photographic milestones dating back to my childhood, but I consider 2005 to be the beginning of my photographic life. This was the year I decided to start devoting myself to photography, started publishing compositionally striking images on the internet and participating in photography forums. During this time I whet my appetite for photography by following the work of exceptional photographers, such as Andrej Dragan and his amazing photo editing and post-production work, the renowned travel photographer Martin Parr - famed for his innovative imagery and approach to social documentary, as well as Peter Beard (no relation), famous for his astonishing photographs of Africa.”

Check out his pictures here

Isaline van der Straten
Isaline likes to summarize her photographic philisophy two quotes of famous artists:
“En photographie, ce n’est pas le photographe qui est important” [Yann Arthus-Bertrand]
“Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and chance” [John Stuart Mill]

Check out Isaline’s pictures here

Virginie Breydel
Virginie was born in 1983 in Brussels. She studied science of communication at FUSL then UCL. Went to Paris for her erasmus, where she studied cinema. Works since 2006 as executive manager at Climax Films, a production company in Brussels. 

Check out Virginie’s pictures here

Gregory de Harlez
“My passion for photography began when I was around 10. My godmother offered me a camera because my family and I were taking a trip to Africa. It is there that I took my first shot. Since then I have lived and studied abroad for a long time. All those experiences gave me the opportunity and the envy to discover the world and its different cultures. The beauty in this world lies in the fact that everyone is different, that the nature in one country is not the same as the nature in another, that different parts of the world have different sets of behavior. My work only relates to those differences.”

Check out the images of Gregory here

We are looking for young creative people who are good at making viral video’s and movies. We want to promote our artists, the story behind their works, the way they take pictures and much more in a creative and original way. Do you think you can help us with that? Drop us an e-mail at hello@mtwalls.be

The works of Paul Bulteel, one of our new artists, has been selected for the prestigious ‘Canvas Collectie / Collection RTBF’. Congratulations Paul!

Who is Paul Bulteel?

Paul Bulteel is a street photographer, finding his images by traveling and strolling around, without any attempt to mise en scene. Most of his photowork deals with the interaction between people and our wider environment.

“We all are often anonymous figurants in the public space, acting in a variety of scenes. Scenes that can either be majestic or ordinary. And certainly in our urban environment the scenery is generally imposed on us, not chosen. Therefore our relation with that scenery can be sometimes harmonious, sometimes quite uneasy.”

Paul’s two photo books “Figurants” and “boxed” bring his personal photographic view on this relation. Paul recently won the silver award of the Photo contest organized by the international art centre of deSingel in Antwerp, and has been selected for PhotoView 2012 and for De Canvascollectie / La Collection RTBF 2012.

More of his photography can be found on www.paulbulteel.eu

We are very happy to announce that in 2011 we collected 940 EUR for the local projects we support.

We want to say a big ‘thank you’ to all our customers who made this possible. Thanks to you, 65 m² of land was bought on which 65 trees were planted. Thanks to you, Harmonie could finance its free Art Magazine. And thanks to you, children with a troubled youth can enjoy their childhood with a bigger smile!

We don’t let strikes ruin your Christmas!

Everyone who ordered an MTWalls gift voucher before 21 Dec. 12 am and did not get it by Friday evening, drop us an e-mail at savemychristmas@mtwalls.be and we will personally deliver your gift voucher everywhere in Belgium!

The countdown to our art happening and finnisage has begun! J-5 until the day NY style art happenings came to Belgium. We are as excited as you guys are!

We are proud to announce the following details on our Art Happening & finnisage:

-We are will showcase about 50 of our works from our 25 featured artists which our fans partially helped to select by voting through our facebook page.

-The young writers of theImagina Project (Ghent BE) have written poems with several of our art works under the theme ‘Love is the new language’. Those are exhibited troughout the entire exhibition in the dedicated Imagina corner

-The art collective‘Wildlife collective (New York, USA) will try to co-create an artwork using photography with our audience during the finnisage on the 17 December.They also have a surprise live performance.

Place to be:

Design center ‘De Winkelhaak
Lange Winkelhaakstraat 26
2060 Antwerp

Exhibition: 12-16 December, 9h to 18h
Afternoon tea time with founders: 17/12, as from 14h
Finnisage: 17/12 as from 20h to 0h

Can’t make it in the evening? 
-On 17/12 as from 14h Teatime with MTWalls founders Thomas & Edmond combined small guided tour throughout our exhibition

Can’t make it on the 17th?
- As from 12/12 to 16/12 you can checkout our exhibition between 9 and 18h in the winkelhaak. The perfect lunch break of after work with your friends!

Can’t make it all?
- Check out our website afterwards and mourn your weren’t at this great NY style event. And countdown to our MTWalls Art Happening - Spring Edition!

See you on the 17th!

Edmond & Thomas
MTWalls Founders

Check out the pictures Mieke made of the Sint-Jansplein in Antwerp from her living room. Great job, Mieke!

12-17 December we are organising our first MTWalls Art Happening in Designcenter Winkelhaak in Antwerp

But we need a little help from our friends! Our exhibition space is still full of empty walls!

We need to select the right works we will showcase in our exhibition. Vote for the works you want us to put in our exhibition on our facebook page. Help us make the right selection!

http://www.facebook.com/MTWalls?sk=app_177914495580579

During fall 2011 we offer free shipping for all our Facebook friends. Check out the details on http://www.facebook.com/MTWalls

Won the second price in the Elka Photo Contest 2011. Congratulations Monique!

Xavier…

hopes one day he’ll find all of his missing socks
likes eating spaghetti and sushi but not at the same time
has a master in art and design
lives in Antwerp
thinks politics is like show business, but for ugly people
has lived in Israël and Australia as a child
enjoys meeting new people
enjoys cooking
likes leaving the dishes for somebody else
did two years of criminology
is half Belgian half Korean
likes visiting the Venice Biennale
is a grahic designer
likes looking up at the sky
has his own website www.thelastdodo.be
studied latin in highschool
likes carnivorous plants
dislikes making this list any longer.

We love Xavier’s illustration of these two giraffes! Check them out!