Rock Strangers Oostende & My Secret Garden: Arne Quinze

About Saskia de Coster

Arne Quinze (1971): Arne Quinze was born in Belgium and lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem Belgium. In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but he never finished an official art education. Quinze creates large and small sculptures drawings paintings and large-scale installations. Smaller works sketches and drawings are the basis and research for his large installations. Recurring fundamentals in his oeuvre are the use of multiple types of wood including salvaged wood; electrical colors in fluorescent paint; and themes referring to social interaction communication and urbanism. Since a while he's doing research towards large steel installations. Saskia de Coster (1976): After her studies at the University of Leuven (Germanic Languages) and Vancouver (Literature Theory) she became a fulltime writer. Her debut novel Vrije Val (Free Falling) was published in 2002 by the renowned Amsterdam-based publishing house Prometheus as were her four consecutive novels. Her novels have won the Cutting Edge Award and have been nominated for the BNG-Literature Award the Gouden Uil and the AKO literature prize. Her work has been translated into seven languages. De Coster is also known to collaborate with artists from various fields. For theatre company STAN she wrote the piece Eskimo. Before she collaborated with experimental theatre company Crew. De Coster publishes articles short stories and columns in several newspapers and magazines such as NRC Handelsblad Vrij Nederland Volkskrant Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Le Soir Humo. She is a columnist for the Flemish newspaper De Morgen. Furthermore de Coster has just completed working on and playing in her own short film made in close collaboration with photographer Johan Jacobs and with a soundtrack by Ozark Henry.