Living and working in Brussels, Belgium, Pierre de Mûelenaere is a literature publisher, filmmaker, visual artist, and musician. As a musician and member of Orphan Swords and Maze & Lindholm, he has released music on international indie record labels like Bedouin Records, Aurora Borealis, Desire Records, and Clan Destine. In 2018, Orphan Swords performed live for the Walter Van Beirendonck AW18 collection show at Fashion Week Paris.

Alongside his artistic practice, Pierre de Mûelenaere founded and run ONLIT Editions, a publishing house for French-speaking literature in Belgium, releasing novels by Isabelle Wéry, Stefan Liberski, Ariane Le Fort, Juan d’Oultremont, Tuyet Nga-Nguyen, Véronique Bergen, and many more. With ONLIT, he created an audiovisual live show, “Albert Camus reads the Stranger REMIX,” presented in Brussels, Paris, Tangier, Tallinn, Budapest, Quebec, Edinburgh, Washington DC, Moscow, Saint Petersburg or Istanbul.

Between 2010 and 2020, with Marc Jacobs, he created and developed the Bozar Electronic program for the Center for Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR). Dedicated to electronic and experimental music and digital arts, it included five editions of the Bozar Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF), the Bozar Electronic Series, dozens of Bozar Nights, and special events featuring music and art. In 2020, with double bass player and composer Cyrille de Haes, he launched Totalism, a multidisciplinary art group.

In 2023, he began making films. His debut, Call Sign Valhalla (2023), is an experimental documentary about the war in Ukraine. It has been selected for Film Maudit 2.0 in LA, TINFF in Toronto, the International Experimental Film Festival in Athens, Fecimu in Buenos Aires, Premis Zoom in Barcelona, and the San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival. The film was awarded Best Documentary Short at the North Film Festival in Stockholm.

Pierre de Mûelenaere
info@pierredm.com
Rue Baron de Laveleye 51
1090 Brussels
Belgium