Coline Cornélis

Artist and composer Coline Cornelis has etched out a singular audiovisual universe where sound, space, shapes, and textures meet to form a whole. Whether DJing for adventurous dancefloors, through her residencies on Refuge Worldwide and LYL Radio, or on the occasion of collaborations with fellow artists, she creates aural environments that envelope listeners and dancers in a dynamic universe of field recordings, bass-heavy rhythms, and leftfield electronics. Now, her practice increasingly involves her own sound designs.
With a keen sensitivity to emotional arc and narrative, she weaves together sets that serve as sonic meditations on a central theme. Her own drawings often accompany the music, guiding listeners’ imaginations toward moments of introspection. Delighting in moments of awakening or uncovering the previously concealed, her sets dodge usual genre identifiers in favor of becoming subjective, multimedia energy aggregations. Taking cues from nature, a cinematic, almost mystical quality hums below the surface.
Her drawing style is simple and sparse: attention to detail, empty space, and silence carry weight equally significant to the other elements. The drawings highlight everyday feelings, like two friends huddled together, or a simple expression of harmony in nature. The pairing of her illustrations and her experimental hybrid sets form a surprising, potent AV show.
Living and working in Brussels, she performs regularly at contemporary art institutions and has completed several residencies at Beursschouwburg and Bozar for example. Recently, she has been programmed on the lineups of Dour and Horst festival.