Bruno Kristo & Ramona Kristo: artist duo living on Earth, The Solar System, The Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Super-Cluster, Known Universe and working primarily in Antwerp, Belgium, European Union.

 

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Bruno Kristo is a visual artist whose practice bridges prehistoric and modern worlds.

His work combines childlike forms with meticulous execution, evoking a delicate contrast between play and precision.

He crafts his creations using various metals, as well as MDF, silicone, and whatever else fits his purpose. He bends his materials to imagination through an array of master-level skills which he’s been developing and continuously refining over the course of nearly three decades of academic study, apprenticeship with experts, and hands-on experience and experimentation.

 

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Consistently on the blending line of reverie and pragmatism, Ramona Kristo feels most at home in non-linear time and liminal spaces.

Elusive as these can be, her quest for belonging often leads her to build own worlds, in whichever medium is best able to impart materiality to feeling, be that the written word, the illustrated emotion or the sculpted experience.  

She devotedly pursues that in the presence of which one feels more alive, and has a tendency to reside in harbor cities.

 

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Honours of their joint œuvre include the acquisition of 'the miracle of the (not yet Holy) cloud' in the permanent collection of the Saint Magdalene church in Bruges, the installation 'Leve Zwijndrecht!' for public display in Zwijndrecht-Burcht, participation in the group show 'Hors Commerce is ook commerce' at Gallery Ronny Van de Velde, an extended solo exhibition of ‘the lamentation over the Solar Child’ in the revered Saint Paul’s Church during the cultural festival 'Antwerp Baroque. Rubens Inspires' (still on view) and the acquisition of ‘the resurrection of Antigoon’ by Port of Antwerp as the first artwork to permanently accompany the new Port House by Zaha Hadid.