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Rudi Bogaerts (Sint-Truiden, 1964) is a Belgian visual artist. who lives and works in Ghent.

Biography
Bogaerts studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent), in Belgium. Originally trained as a painter, later he studied photography and movie. Since 1990 he start working as a photographer.

In 1999 he makes an in situ project "The meeting wall" in the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region. This work provides a new twist to his work. He stops working as a commercial photographer, to develop his career as an artist.

His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, he reflects on the closely related subjects of archive and memory. This often results in an examination of both the human need for ‘conclusive’ stories and the question whether anecdotes ‘fictionalise’ history.

Monograph
"Hinweise zum lexikon", 2009, Les Cahiers d'Aline, 32 pages, ISBN 978-94-901-3600-0 (with an essay by Inge Braeckman).