Website

http://www.monika.macken.be

Relationship status

married

College / University

Katholieke universitei Leuven

Program

Roman Philology

Graduation

27 September 1968

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

Monika, I have 2 grown up sons, computerfreaks and a husband, Ward Ruyslinck, a famous Flemisch writer. I wrote poetry and novels, I was a journalist and a PR officer, I edit an E-magazine on art "Indigo". painting is now my great passion.

About my artwork

First my paintings were naive, now I work wirh collage & acrylic and I make some baroque or surrealistic "mindscapes". I working now on a serie "Italian Stories", about a lot of italian cities(where I lived for 3 years). With every painting I wirte a story.

Artists I like

Painters: Camille Rose Garcia, Frida Kahlo, Hundertwasser, Michael Borremans(belgian), Luc Tuymans, Vincenzo Ferrante, ingmar Ostijn, Jeroen Du Bois.
Writers: Siri Hustvedt, Colette(French),Giuseppe Bonaviri(italian),Myriam Van Hee(Belgian poet), Dimitri Verhulst(Flemish)

Interests

Movies (Fellini, Wim Wenders, François Ozon,Visconti...),pop music(Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Radiohead,Beatles,Gianna Nannini), classical music(Chopin, Tchaikovsky,Verdi)

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Those in the Bozar in Brussels.

The centre of the artworld is

London