YLÏAM [Maïly Beyrens Xu] is a Brussels-based transdisciplinary artist, working both as a visual artist and creating participative, community-driven experiences. Known for their poetic and humorous exploration of everyday life, YLÏAM invites participants to engage directly in live performances, interactive installations, and creative workshops. Through these collaborative projects, YLÏAM fosters a collective discovery of sound, space, and personal narratives, transforming them into universally relatable experiences.

YLÏAM is also a musician and sound-designer.

UPCOMING SHOWS & PROJECTS

2026

Collective walk & Zine workshop
in collaboration with Architectuurbureau PLUSOFFICE , Brussels

Museum Night Fever
in collaboration with Isidore, Lydia Lubs at Koninkelijke Bibliotheek, Brussels

Monday Mourning
Concert at De Koer, Ghent (voorproggramma Another Dancer)

Artist Residency
Viernulvier, Ghent

PROJECTS (SELECTED)

2026

Radio Enjoliveur
mobile radio / live performance for La Fête Des Garagiste
Atelier Enjoliveur
Brussels (BE)

Monday Mourning
live music performance, Atelier 210
Brussels (BE)

VROOM Print Fair
Brussels (BE)

Taipei Art Book Fair
Taipei (TW)

SLUGGISH SKATE MAG
Selfpublished magazine
Distributed by Phyllshin Books
Taipei,Taiwan (TW)

2025

• Unknown Network
audio-visual installation & performance
in collaboration with Het Groene Lilare
Kunst & Zwalm arts festival, Zwalm (BE)

• Taipei Art Book Fair
Taipei (TW)

• Fujinn Interaktif Orchestra
Theater & music Residentie
CCN With Amadeo Kollectif, Namen (BE)

• Festival Des Arbres
Participating artist
Brussels (BE)

2024

Sonic Playground: A Soundwalk Through the Banyan Plaza
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Kaohsiung (TW) – Live sound performance

Voicemail Blues
COMPLEX BUSINESS
Book Launch Belgium by Printer Fault Press, WIELS, Brussels (BE) – Live sound performance

COMPLEX BUSINESS
Book Launch France by Printer Fault Press
Paris ASS Book Fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)

Guest speaker, Breakfast Club
Theaterfestival in De Singel, Antwerp
”Children's play as an artistic strategy”

Lecture on acoustics and spatial engagement
Lecture Hall of National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Kaohsiung (TW)

Where The Echo Comes From
Short film on Albert Yaying Xu & acoustics
Private screening
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts – Weiwuying

Sound Design for Egolane by Juliet Carpenter (DE) – Created full sound design for the installation, selected for the Auckland Walter Prize.

Sound Design for Dizzy by Juliet Carpenter (DE) – Complete audio design for the video work.




2023

Just Before I Died
Live sound performance for 'Reparative Research' by Roel Kerkhofs
Carré, campus Sint-Lucas Gent, LUCA School of Arts, Gent (BE)

External jury member, Mixed Media Master Jury, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent and Brussels.

Artist-educator Amadeo Kollectif
Project leader of collaborative art projects with children and youth. Leading and developed artistic trajectories combining sound, moving image, and poetry.

Interactive panels & audioguide for
Animalia, Trainworld, Brussels (2023)

Film workshops and recordings
Filemon Youth Film Festival, Brussels (2022–2023)

Summer School
De Centrale, Ghent (2022)
Sint-Pietersabdij & Liberas, Ghent (2023)

Long- and short-term art education in schools, cultural centers, and museums across Flanders and Brussels, including CC Brugge, Toekoer Festival Hasselt, Permeke Antwerpen, Flagey, WIELS

2022

Artist talk, Double Minutes, In de Wildernis, Brussels (BE) Performative presentation on artistic practice.

The World Is Complicated
Graphic work for A Very Theatrical Group Expo, Vroom Space, Brussels (BE)

Ambiguous Skate Nation
Site-specific installation
Festival SKTWK at Lachmann Gallery, Frankfurt (DE)

MAN MAN CHI
Experimental short film for Festival Made In China, Handelsbeurs, Ghent (BE)

External jury member, Mixed Media Bachelor Jury, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent and Brussels.

2021

Room for Improvisation
Installation and participatory performance for L’Esprit, Absolventen Group Show, Portikus, Frankfurt Am Main (DE)

Entropiano
Sound-installation
404 Page Not Found Groupshow, Harelbeke (BE)

Co-founder of Town, a radio show on Radio X, Frankfurt (DE)

2020

Room For Improvement
Sound-installation for Rundgang Städelschule, Frankfurt Am Main (DE)

2019

Frog
site-specific installation and performance for Menage at GONG, Groupshow at House, Frankfurt Am Main (DE)

PIANO SOLO
site-specific installation and performance for McKinzy, Groupshow, McKenzie, Frankfurt Am Main (DE)

Translocating To The Immaterial
site-specific installation and performance at Pleasure Island, Oostende (BE)

VDB Transit Company
Performance, site-specific installation for
SOMMER, Groupshow at Kunst Im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (DE)

KIT Sommer 2019”, Kunst im Tunnel (Düsseldorf) – Interview featured in the exhibition catalogue of KIT Sommer 2019, exploring artistic approaches and personal practice as part of the group show.

I Don’t Have A Home
Graphic work for Lockers V3, Curated by Dieo Diez, Bozar, Brussels (BE)

Detox Smoothie, Invited by Buren
Sound performance at De Vooruit, Ghent (BE)

Kwil Nen Bad en Nen Chauffage, Invited by GROTESK,
Sound performance at Plek, Ghent (BE)

2018

Café Solo
Performance, site-specific installation for Rundgang Städelschule, Frankfurt Am Main (DE)

Complex WOrld
Graphic work for Black Garden, Groupshow at L21, Mallorca (ES)

#predictivetextsongs
Performance in collaboration with Stine Sampers for Lowtext, Berlin (DE)

Al Mudhaybi Survey Project
Illustration of neolithic period forGoethe University Frankfurt (DE)

Hotel Insomnia, Groupshow
Sound performance with LOUCHE curated by Victor Van Wassenhove at DeFabriek, Eindhoven (NL)

2017

Souvenirshop
Performance, site-specific installation in collaboration with Portier, Ghent (BE)

Public Place & Pubic Space
Site-Specific Screening, Ghent (BE)

A Serious Artist Residence,
Performance, site-specific installation at 002, Ghent (BE)

MONDAY MOURNING
Video installation for Getting Out of The Paté, KMNM, Kassel (DE)

12x20'
Sound performance for Kunstroute Waregem, Waregem (BE)

Regels
Tumult Art Festival, Design Museum, Ghent (BE) – Sound performance

Cheese Is Life, Choir invited by Gerard Herman for BANG! Festival, Brussels (BE) – Sound performance

De Heilige Drievuldigheid, Invited by Sarah Zeebroek for BANG! Festival, Brussels (BE) – Sound performance

2016

Video Direction for Awkward Moments: A Blooming Attraction – Published on ‘4:3’ by Boiler Room (UK)

Concept, Animation & Performance for Björn Borg – Space-Inspired Couture Campaign

SPECTRUM Queer Art Festival
Performance with LOUCHE

2015

Vocalist and performer Belgica, a film by Felix Van Groeningen

Vocalist and performer The Great Downhill of Little Tommy
Fringe Festival, Edinburg