About Karel
Karel Tuytschaever (b. 1985, Belgium) works as an actor, as a teaching artist in higher arts education and as a researcher in the arts, and also creates his own hybrid work. He finds himself on common ground where the performative and visual arts interact and reinforce each other.
His fascination with physical presence in art plays a key role in the cornerstones of his artistic practice.
Actor and voice-over artist
Karel obtained a master's degree in acting at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp in 2007, as one of the last classes led by Dora van der Groen. To date, he works as a freelance performer for theatre, film and television series.
Karel performed in theatre and dance performances commissioned by production houses such as among others Toneelhuis, HETPALEIS, De Tijd, Kaaitheater, Barre weldaad, Hertoghs Haest, De parade, Schauspielhaus Wien, fABULEUS, Frascati, Villanova festival, Middelheim museum, KunstZ, Theater STAP, deSingel, Over het IJ festival and La Carniceria Teatro Madrid.
Discover his screen work through IMDb or watch his showreel.
You can also hear him in voice-over work for TV, radio and museums. Voice references are as among others brands like Kellogg's, MeDirect, C&A, Kinepolis, LEGO, Jules Destrooper, Caudalie, Dilea, Rituals, Microsoft, Leen Bakker, DAZN, Vlaamse overheid, Hasbro, Passendale kaas, Veet Men, VakantieDiscounter, Bank de Kremer, Hörmann, Dag Allemaal, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Play Nostalgie, Mercy Ships & De Morgen Magazine.
Teaching artist and mentor
Since 2008, he is a lecturer at the Bachelor programmes in Drama and in Contemporary Dance at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp / AP University College. He works there interdisciplinary; he teaches Drama classes to the dancers and Physical Artistic Awareness to the drama department. He works with visual artists on a project basis at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. He is a member of the dance education committee and student mentor team.
He is regularly solicited as a coach. He hosted workshops and masterclasses organized by theatre studio Nest, OPENDOEK, University of Antwerp, deDansPunt, Let's Go Urban Academy, scenography education KASKA, Zuidpool, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, The Amsterdam School of the Arts, Fontys School of the Arts, EYE film museum & Cinedans FEST.
Researcher in the arts
Karel is a doctoral researcher in the Arts at the Antwerp University, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. Als de kunstenaar zijn beeld inslikt (When the artist swallows his image) (2022-2026) is an in-depth trajectory which digs into the seldom explored domain of embodied knowledge within the relationship between the maker and their created image of somebody else. He explores the role that the maker's unique physicality plays in depicting someone else. Throughout this journey, he looks at ways to arrive at more reciprocal and sustainable relationships between different artistic disciplines, finds new inter-medial forms, further develops his inclusive vision, and explores its scope.
He is a member of CORPoREAL research group at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Art & ecology research group at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and a member of ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts) and ViDi (Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center), two research units at the Antwerp University. He also sits on the research council of the Antwerp Schools of Arts.