Emmanuel van der Auwera (b. 1982, Brussels, Belgium) works across video, theatre, sculpture, printmaking, and often within tension between art and technology, reality and simulation, and the trivialisation of violence. Drawing material from the rampant image production of global screen culture, he explores the meaning of images and how they both depict and construct reality. Van der Auwera was a 2015 laureate of the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) post-academic course in Ghent and the first recipient of the Goldwasserschenking, awarded by WIELS and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; WIELS, Brussels; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; and the HeK – House of Electronic Arts, Basel, among others. Van der Auwera lives and works in Brussels.