Yasmine Yahiatène
Yasmine Yahiatène is a multidisciplinary artist. She trained in video and performance at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tournai, the University of Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain, and at Les Rencontres Audiovisuelles in Lille.
In 2016, her video mapping installation “Ma mère, aussi” was exhibited in Lille and Switzerland. The video mapping project “J’avais 10 ans” (a collective creation), projected onto the Lille-Flandres train station, won second prize at the International Video Mapping Competition in Lille. In 2019, she founded the Oxo Collective, through which she developed the project “OXO Beat Gender”, an interactive video installation highlighting five portraits of forgotten women in history. “OXO Beat Gender” was exhibited at the Never Apart Gallery for the 2019 Micro-Mapping exhibition in Montreal, and at the BRASS cultural center in Brussels for the Matilda exhibition in 2022.
In parallel, in 2017, Yasmine acted in the film “Plein la vue” by Philippe Lion and began collaborating with the company La neige sur les cils as both performer and video artist for the show “À ta place”, which premiered at the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in 2021 and toured in France until 2023.
In 2020, she launched her first stage creation and began writing “La Fracture”, a performance in which she shares her personal story on stage, using video as a co-performer. With “La Fracture”, she explores a deeply intimate and complex relationship — the one with her father. In an attempt to reconnect with him through various narrative and visual devices, she revisits the Algerian War, her father’s childhood in Kabylia, his exile, his alcoholism, and the common threads of silence, taboo, and shame, initiating a process of healing and resilience.
“La Fracture” premiered in 2022 at Atelier 210 (Brussels, BE) in co-presentation with Kaaitheater, and was featured at Festival Actoral (Marseille, FR) and the Fast Forward Festival (Dresden, DE), where it won the Youth Jury Prize for Best Performance.
In September 2022, she performed in “Et ta sœur”, directed by Lou Joubert for the feminist festival F.A.M.E (Brussels), as part of the Manx Cat Project, which was later presented in 2023 at the Théâtre de Liège, MARS-Mons, and Maison Poème (Brussels, BE).
The tour of “La Fracture” continued in 2023, with performances at MONTY (Antwerp, BE), Festival Emulation (Liège, BE), Jurányi Art Incubator House (Budapest, HU), Tweetakt Festival (Utrecht, NL), Belluard Festival (Fribourg, CH), Festival de la Cité (Lausanne, CH), Kampnagel International Summer Festival (Hamburg, DE), and other European venues. The show was nominated for the Maeterlinck Critics’ Award for Best Set Design, and also won the High School Student Prize at the 2023 Festival Impatience in Paris. The tour of “La Fracture” will continue through the 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 seasons, with dates scheduled in Lyon, Berlin, Brussels, Nantes, and Réunion Island.
Driven by the ethos that “the personal is political,” Yasmine was invited in November 2022 by La Bellone for a residency on her upcoming project “Les châteaux de ma mère”, through which she continues her exploration of identity and roots—this time through the lens of the female figures in her family, particularly her mother, and her own relationship with silence, taboo, and shame. This work is scheduled to premiere in September 2026 at Théâtre de Liège, produced by Atelier 210 in co-production with Théâtre Varia, Halles de Schaerbeek, and the Namur Cultural Center.
Alongside the creation of “Les châteaux de ma mère”, she is developing another project titled “Le château de mes tantes”, in collaboration with Samy Barras and Pauline Vanden Neste. This interactive installation is conceived by and for a small group of Belgian-Moroccan or Belgian-Algerian women, in the form of a jukebox of women’s memories.
In May 2023, she was invited by CITF and WBI to take part in the artist incubator in Montreal — a gathering of French-speaking artists around the theme “FLAMBOYANT·E·S COMME DES ORACLES”. In February 2024, she acted in the feature film “All the time” by Amélie Derlon Cordina (set for release in 2025). From 2025 to 2028, Yasmine will be supported by the EMERGE program (a network of cultural centers and theatres across Wallonia, the Hauts-de-France region, and Flanders). In 2026–2027, she will also perform in director Khadija El Kharraz Alami’s new production “BLUEPRINTS”.
