ABOUT
“ FOCUS ON SOCIAL ISSUES WITH A DOCUMENTARY APPROACH IN CARE.”

© Maëlle Helias
︎Based in Brussels BELGIUM
︎ info@romaneiskaria.com
︎ Member of Futures Photography
︎ Romane's studio, Brussels (BE) Visit on request by mail.

EN
Romane Iskaria is a French photographer and artist based in Brussels, Belgium (1997). She graduated with a Master's degree in photography from ENSAV La Cambre in 2022 and a DNA (National Diploma in Plastic Arts) from INSEAAM Beaux Arts in Marseille in 2018. She also completed an exchange at the U-LAVAL Visual Arts school in Quebec, Canada.
The photographer sheds light on injustices affecting marginalized communities through an approach that blends documentary and fiction. Her images, imbued with a sense of "Care," allow the subjects to confront and reclaim their painful histories. Romane works across various regions, including Brazil, the Middle East, and Europe, developing long-term investigative narratives.
The artist uses photography, video, textiles, sound, and sculpture to create immersive installations. By reenacting specific rituals and stories, she explores themes of migration and exile, while transcending physical and symbolic borders through visual forms that subvert the conventions of documentary.
Romane is laureate of TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, by FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerpen and the european platform FUTURES Photography.
Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions: in the United States (ART-ARK Gallery in San Jose, California; Assyrian Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.), in Brazil (João Pessoa Paraíba Nordeste Art Gallery of the Energisa Institute), in France (Circulation(s) Cent-Quatre Festival in Paris, Lille Art-Up Centre Photographique in Lille, La Grande Vitrine Gallery in Arles, HLM Gallery in Marseille), in Belgium (FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, S.M.A.K Museum in Ghent, House of European History Brussels, TAMAT Museum in Tournai, BPS22, Art-Brussels Off, Prix Médiatine, Hangar Art Photo Center, TICK-TACK Gallery, Tiny-Gallery, Fondation Carrefour des Arts), in Armenia (French Consulate in Yerevan), in Italy (L’Asilo in Naples), and in the Netherlands (Flemish Cultural Center). Brakke-grond, Noorderlicht Festival).
Romane was selected as part of the call for projects launched by Polka Magazine and Kickstarter for the creation and support of an artist's book, with the self-publishing of her first work, "Assyrians," in a print run of 300 copies in 2022. The book "Assyrians" was also a winner of the Belgian Photo Books selection, presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in July 2022.
Romane Iskaria is a French photographer and artist based in Brussels, Belgium (1997). She graduated with a Master's degree in photography from ENSAV La Cambre in 2022 and a DNA (National Diploma in Plastic Arts) from INSEAAM Beaux Arts in Marseille in 2018. She also completed an exchange at the U-LAVAL Visual Arts school in Quebec, Canada.
The photographer sheds light on injustices affecting marginalized communities through an approach that blends documentary and fiction. Her images, imbued with a sense of "Care," allow the subjects to confront and reclaim their painful histories. Romane works across various regions, including Brazil, the Middle East, and Europe, developing long-term investigative narratives.
The artist uses photography, video, textiles, sound, and sculpture to create immersive installations. By reenacting specific rituals and stories, she explores themes of migration and exile, while transcending physical and symbolic borders through visual forms that subvert the conventions of documentary.
Romane is laureate of TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, by FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerpen and the european platform FUTURES Photography.
Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions: in the United States (ART-ARK Gallery in San Jose, California; Assyrian Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.), in Brazil (João Pessoa Paraíba Nordeste Art Gallery of the Energisa Institute), in France (Circulation(s) Cent-Quatre Festival in Paris, Lille Art-Up Centre Photographique in Lille, La Grande Vitrine Gallery in Arles, HLM Gallery in Marseille), in Belgium (FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, S.M.A.K Museum in Ghent, House of European History Brussels, TAMAT Museum in Tournai, BPS22, Art-Brussels Off, Prix Médiatine, Hangar Art Photo Center, TICK-TACK Gallery, Tiny-Gallery, Fondation Carrefour des Arts), in Armenia (French Consulate in Yerevan), in Italy (L’Asilo in Naples), and in the Netherlands (Flemish Cultural Center). Brakke-grond, Noorderlicht Festival).
Romane was selected as part of the call for projects launched by Polka Magazine and Kickstarter for the creation and support of an artist's book, with the self-publishing of her first work, "Assyrians," in a print run of 300 copies in 2022. The book "Assyrians" was also a winner of the Belgian Photo Books selection, presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in July 2022.
FR
Romane Iskaria est une photographe et artiste française basée à Bruxelles en Belgique (1997). Elle est diplômée d’un Master de photographie à l’ENSAV La Cambre en 2022 et d’un DNA (Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques) de l’INSEAAM Beaux Arts de Marseille en 2018. Elle a aussi réalisé un échange à l’école d’Arts Visuel U-LAVAL à Québec au Canada.
La photographe met en lumière les injustices touchant des communautés invisibilisées avec une approche mêlant documentaire et fiction. Ses images, empreintes de “Care” permettent aux sujets de prendre conscience de leurs histoires douloureuses. Romane travaille sur plusieurs territoires notamment le Brésil, le Moyen-Orient et en Europe, développant des récits sous forme d’enquêtes au long cours.
L’artiste utilise la photographie, le champs de la vidéo, le textile, le son et la sculpture pour créer des installations immersives. En rejouant des rituels et des histoires spécifiques, elle interroge les migrations et l’exil, tout en transcendant les frontières physiques et symboliques à travers des formes plastiques qui détournent les codes du documentaire.
Romane est lauréate du TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, par le FOMU Fotomuseum Anvers et la plateforme européenne FUTURES Photography.
Son travail a été montré dans des expositions personnelles et collectives : aux États-Unis (ART- ARK Gallery à San José, Californie ; Assyrian Policy Institute à Washington D.C.), au Brésil (Galerie d'art de l'Institut Energisa) João Pessoa Paraíba Nordeste, en France (Festival Circulation(s) Cent-Quatre Paris, Lille Art-Up Centre Photographique de Lille, galerie La Grande Vitrine à Arles, galerie HLM à Marseille), en Belgique (FOMU Fotomuseum Anvers, musée S.M.A.K à Gand, House of European History Brussels, musée TAMAT à Tournai, BPS22, Art-Brussels Off, Prix Médiatine, Hangar Art Photo Center, galerie TICK-TACK, Tiny-Gallery, Fondation Carrefour des Arts), en Arménie (Consulat de France à Erevan), en Italie (L’Asilo à Naples) et aux Pays-Bas (Centre culturel Flamand Brakke-grond, Festival Noorderlicht).
Romane a été sélectionnée dans le cadre de l’appel à projets lancé par Polka Magazine et Kickstarter pour la création et le soutien d’un livre d’artiste, avec l’autoédition de son premier ouvrage "Assyrians" à 300 exemplaires en 2022. Le livre Assyrians a également été lauréat de la sélection Belgian Photo Books, présentée aux Rencontres d’Arles en juillet 2022.
Romane Iskaria est une photographe et artiste française basée à Bruxelles en Belgique (1997). Elle est diplômée d’un Master de photographie à l’ENSAV La Cambre en 2022 et d’un DNA (Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques) de l’INSEAAM Beaux Arts de Marseille en 2018. Elle a aussi réalisé un échange à l’école d’Arts Visuel U-LAVAL à Québec au Canada.
La photographe met en lumière les injustices touchant des communautés invisibilisées avec une approche mêlant documentaire et fiction. Ses images, empreintes de “Care” permettent aux sujets de prendre conscience de leurs histoires douloureuses. Romane travaille sur plusieurs territoires notamment le Brésil, le Moyen-Orient et en Europe, développant des récits sous forme d’enquêtes au long cours.
L’artiste utilise la photographie, le champs de la vidéo, le textile, le son et la sculpture pour créer des installations immersives. En rejouant des rituels et des histoires spécifiques, elle interroge les migrations et l’exil, tout en transcendant les frontières physiques et symboliques à travers des formes plastiques qui détournent les codes du documentaire.
Romane est lauréate du TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, par le FOMU Fotomuseum Anvers et la plateforme européenne FUTURES Photography.
Son travail a été montré dans des expositions personnelles et collectives : aux États-Unis (ART- ARK Gallery à San José, Californie ; Assyrian Policy Institute à Washington D.C.), au Brésil (Galerie d'art de l'Institut Energisa) João Pessoa Paraíba Nordeste, en France (Festival Circulation(s) Cent-Quatre Paris, Lille Art-Up Centre Photographique de Lille, galerie La Grande Vitrine à Arles, galerie HLM à Marseille), en Belgique (FOMU Fotomuseum Anvers, musée S.M.A.K à Gand, House of European History Brussels, musée TAMAT à Tournai, BPS22, Art-Brussels Off, Prix Médiatine, Hangar Art Photo Center, galerie TICK-TACK, Tiny-Gallery, Fondation Carrefour des Arts), en Arménie (Consulat de France à Erevan), en Italie (L’Asilo à Naples) et aux Pays-Bas (Centre culturel Flamand Brakke-grond, Festival Noorderlicht).
Romane a été sélectionnée dans le cadre de l’appel à projets lancé par Polka Magazine et Kickstarter pour la création et le soutien d’un livre d’artiste, avec l’autoédition de son premier ouvrage "Assyrians" à 300 exemplaires en 2022. Le livre Assyrians a également été lauréat de la sélection Belgian Photo Books, présentée aux Rencontres d’Arles en juillet 2022.
Text on Romane Iskaria work by Brazilian art critic Ana Luisa Lima, published in the .tiff Emerging Belgian Photography magazine 2024.



EXHIBITIONS
Solo show
2025 Uzina Energisa Institute - art gallery, João Pessoa, Paraiba, Northeast BRAZIL, 2025.
Collaboration with the Brazilian PhD in anthropology and descolonialism Osvaldo Falcão, curated by visual artist Serge Huot.
2023-2024 TAMAT Tournai (Museum of Tapestry and Textile Arts of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation) special mention by Mediatine Prize 2023, “Jaré” video and textile installation, Tournai BE
2022 Festival Circulation(s) OFF, “Assyrians” outside the walls in front of the French Embassy, Erevan, ARMENIA
Group show
2025 Not Everyone is a Phenix, Plush Gallery, Brussels BE
2025 Lille Art-Up with Institute for Photography of Lille FR
2025-2026 House of European History Brussels, Presence of the past, Brussels BE
2024 ART-ICON, Corporeality, Paris FR
2024 Mesopotamiart, Cultural Center of Sarcelles, Paris FR
2024 TIFF 2024, Brakke Grond Flemish Cultural Center Amsterdam NE
2024 TIFF 2024, F.O.M.U museum, Antwerp BE - June
2024 Gallery PAND00X, Hidden Conversations, Courtrai BE - June
2024 Tiny-Gallery, Tissus d’Exil a project with EXIL mental health center, Brussels BE
2024 Hangar Art Photo Center, Beyond, Image Unique, Brussels BE
2023 S.M.A.K Museum of Contemporary Art, NICCx25, Gand BE
2023 Foundation Carrefour des Arts, BEYOND end of the residency, Brussels BE
2023 Gallery ART-ARK, AKITU Diaspora In Bloom, San José USA
2023 Art Au Centre, Liège BE
2023 Médiatine Prize, special mention by museum TAMAT Tournai, Wolubilis Center, Brussels BE
2022 BPS22 Museum, FRICTION(S), Charleroi BE
2022 Assyrian Policy Institute, Assyrian Film in diaspora pop-Up with Diaspora in Bloom, Washington D.C USA
2022 ART-BRUSSELS OFF, Gallery FACE-B, Un grand amour suffit, Brussels BE
2022 Circulation(s) Festival, CENT-QUATRE, Paris FR
2022 HISK (Higher Institute of Fine Arts), Tell Me Louder, Brussels BE
2022 Gallery La Grande Vitrine, Arles FR
2021 Noordelisht Internationaal Fotofestival, The Makeable Mind, Groningen NE
2021 Hangar Art Photo Center, S’exposer, Brussels BE
2021 Gallery TICK-TACK, Third Place Or What?, Anvers BE
2020 L’Asilo, Popolare, Naples IT
2019 Gallery HLM Photography Center, AT-WORK, Marseille FR
2019 Mini Mécénat : Le Trait d’Union, Santa Rita Brésil, Marseille FR
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY
2025 Center Arapuca Arte e Cultura : three months research and artistic creation residency, Condé Paraiba Northeast BRAZIL
2024 Center Arapuca Arte e Cultura : two months research and artistic creation residency, Condé Paraiba Northeast BRAZIL
2022 - 2023 Foundation Carrefour des Arts : nine month research and artistic creation residency Brussels BE
AWARDS / GRANTS
TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, laureate FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerpen and the european platform FUTURES Photography, BE, 2024
OpenFolio #4, laureate, Institute for photography of Lilles FR 2024
SOFAM Grant, laureate (Multimedia Society of Visual Arts Authors Belgium) 2023
Grant for publishing production, FWB (Wallonia-Brussels Federation), 2023
Mediatine Prize, laureate with a special mention by TAMAT Tournai (Museum of Textile Arts and Tapestries), Brussels BE, 2023
Belgian Photo Book Prize, Brussels BE, 2022
Polka Magazine & Kickstarter call for projects, laureate with Assyrians book for a creation and support of a first artist book, Paris FR 2021
King Baudouin Foundation Scholarship, Brussels BE 2021
Freelens Mentor Prize, finalist, Paris FR 2021
Poznan Art Prize, 2nd prize, Pologne, 2020
BOOK
2022: Assyrians, self published, 300 copies, design and conception Camille Carbonaro de MacaroniBook.
CONFERENCE
2024: Presentation of her work “Os Encantados“, Institute Energysa Uzina, Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, BRASIL
2023: Conference presentation of artistic research at the Fine Arts Charleroi invited by photographer Kamand Razavi, Charleroi BE
SOCIAL PROJECTS
2023-2024: TISSUS D’EXIL, collaborative project and animation workshop with a group of exiled womens with the EXIL Center (Mental Health center, specialized in the rehabilitation of refugees), Brussels BE
2022: REVERSE MIGRATORY JOURNEY, official photographer for the project with the association La Tour de Babel Brussels, a trip with 25 young people to the south-east of Turkey. Supported by Erasmus+ and the B.I.J (international youth office), south-east of TURKEY
2021: MIGRATORY TRACES, volunteer artist with ASMAE association, TriPostal, Brussels BE
PRESS PUBLICATIONS
2024: TIFF Magazine by FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp BE
2024: A UNIÃ0 newspaper, Encantos nas comunidades em Condé, BRASIL
2024: Cahier d’Images, by Kevin Mulhen, Casino Luxembourg
2024: NICCx25, 25 years for standing up for artists rights, Stockman Arts Book with museum SMAK Gand BE
2024: Origines review n1 by MacaroniBook BE
2023: SOFAM review n4, (Multimedia Society of Visual Arts Authors Belgium), BE
2023: Based Istanbul, interview Unframed Meeting with Ancestors: Romane Iskaria Istanbul TURKEY
2023: 5 Rue du, Assyrians by critic Frederic Martin FR
2022: 9 lives magazine, Assyrians, mémoire d’un génocide FR
2022: L’intervalle Blog, Assyrie le chant de l’exil, by Fabien Ribery FR
2022: Ectomie Patriarcale, Xeno Exhibitions Brussels BE
2020: Fisheye le mag Coup de coeur pour Sceneggiatta FR
2020: La Zone Utopies-Distopies série 9m2 Marseille FR
RADIOS
2023: Radio BX1 : Interview Le Brunch Romane Iskaria with Marion Maréchal : Les artistes de chez nous BE
2021: Assyria TV : Interview with Fédération Assyrienne de France FR
EDUCATIONS
2022: MFA in Photography, ENSAV La Cambre with distinctions, Brussels BE
2019: Erasmus in master's degree in visual arts at the art school of U-LAVAL Quebec University, Québec CA
2018: DNA (National Diploma of Plastic Art) with distinctions, INSEAMM (Marseille National School of Fine Arts), Marseille FR

View of the studio during the artistic residency in the Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Brussels (BE) 2023

Exhibition view Los Encantos, .TIFF 2024 Emerging Belgian Photography, FOMU Antwerp (BE) 2024

Exhibition view, Assyrians, AKITU exhibition, Diaspora in Bloom, gallery ART-ARK, San José, (USA) 2023

Exhibition view, Limit Middle East, BEYOND end of the residency, Foundation Carrefour des Arts, Brussels (BE) 2023
Exhibition view, Jaré, Frictions, BPS22 Museum, Charleroi (BE) 2022

Exhibition view, Assyrians, Festival Circulation(s) OFF, French Ambassy of Armenia, Erevan (ARMENIA) 2021

Exhibition view, Enūma eliš, BEYOND end of the residency, Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Brussels (BE) 2023

Exhibition view, Le Pays Disparu, exhibition Third Place or What?, TICK-TACK Gallery, Antwerp (BE) 2021

Exhibition view, Enūma Elis film (20 minutes), BEYOND end of the residency, Carrefour des Arts Foundation, Brussels (BE) 2023