Karel Tuytschaever (°1985, Belgium) works as an actor, maker, teaching artist and PhD researcher at the intersection of performative and visual arts. His own work stems from a deep fascination with physical presence and how the body functions as a carrier of meaning in artistic creation.
As an actor, he is active in theatre, film and television, and lends his voice as a voice-over artist for TV, radio and museums. Since graduating from the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp in 2007 (under the supervision of Dora van der Groen), he has worked with various companies and institutions in Belgium and abroad.
In higher art education, Karel has been affiliated with the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp since 2008, where he teaches in both the drama and dance programmes. He is also a student mentor there. He guides students in their physical artistic awareness and interdisciplinary work, and is also active as a guest lecturer at various national and international schools and festivals. He also guides visual artists in personal trajectories at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
As a researcher in the arts, he focuses on the role of his physicality as an image maker in the presentation of someone else's authentic body. His research project Als de kunstenaar zijn beeld inslikt (When the artist swallows his image, 2022–2026) seeks sustainable, inclusive relationships between disciplines and between the body and 2D images. He is a member of various research groups and associations and contributes to the broader discourse on intermediality and embodied knowledge.