Tis & Vitaly are a family duo of visual artists—parent and son—based in Brussels. They work at the intersection of photography, textile art, and mixed-media installation. 

Tis & Vitaly’s visual world approaches photography as a nexus of physical and digital interventions, from constructing studio installations designed to be photographed, to intervening in, on, and around the image and its physical support. Their practice regards objects and spaces as archeological repositories of human stories embedded in social and industrial histories, and deploys photography as a form of theatrical mise en scène where the characters are things rather than people. At the boundary between textile art, object design, and theater scenography, the poetry of this mise en scène emerges as a dialogue across surfaces and materials, with a nonlinear, and often deliberately cartoonish, sense of narrativity, influenced by the esthetic of Franco-Belgian comics and experimental literature, medieval European tapestry, and contemporary West African textile art.

Tis & Vitaly’s work has been exhibited at museums, galleries, and art fairs across the world, including the National Museum of Unity in Nigeria, the MORA Museum of Art in New Jersey (USA), the Kigali Centre for Photography in Rwanda, Galerie Mhaata in Brussels, Galerie Mitobo in New York, Lausanne Art Fair in Switzerland, and the Tunde Odunlade Art Connexions gallery in Nigeria. In 2025 their work is scheduled to be exhibited at the UnRepresented/Approche photography fair in Paris, at the Kamienna Góra Museum of Weaving in Poland, the Forssa Textile Museum in Finland, and the Centre Culturel Archipel 19 in Brussels. Their work is also held in private collections in Europe, Africa, the USA, and Mexico.

Tis (they/them, b. 1975) holds a law degree and a masters in linguistics from Stanford University (California) and a masters in music composition from the University of London. Tis has taught trans-diciplinary design at Parsons School of Design in New York, medieval music at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (Netherlands), and medieval literature at Lang College of Liberal Arts in New York. Tis’s books are published by Punctum Books. Vitaly (he/him, b. 1994) holds a master in urbanism and geography from the Free University of Brussels, a bachelor in philology from the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland), and has also studied in Toulouse (France), Leuven (Belgium), and Shenyang (China).

Tis & Vitaly are members of the international network of contemporary archeologists CHAT (Contemporary & Historical Archaeology in Theory). Their research on the archeology of Rwandan farmhouses is forthcoming, published by Bloomsbury in a volume on household archeology. Their research on abandoned Polish dwellings is also forthcoming, published by Springer in a volume on the archeology of repression and resistance.