Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo
Announcing the new collaboration with Vox Luminis. Mario Costa and I are currently working on the video scenography for Cavalieri's Rappresentazione di Anima e di...
Musica Divina 2023
Musica Divina 2023’s theme is 'Taking care of each other'. Mellow? Nope. Essential. For the seventh year in a row I really enjoyed designing the campaign, focussed o...
Sketchbook
'SKETCHBOOK' is a personal project, covering ten years of my life. In 2014 I made the original sketchbook. It was a vital form of expression, trying to find my way...
SOLAR
"Solar, Icarus burning" is an opera by Howard and Anna Moody, that premiered at La Monnaie in March 2023 with my set and costumes. Let's start where it ended....
Weg van Bach
Benjamin Glorieux played Bach's cellosuites at Klara Festival in March 2023, fueled by the experiences of his long hike trough Germany, in Bach's own footsteps. For...
Verdwijntijd - the installation
Here's how I ended up designing this installation.
A few years ago, lutenist Sofie Vanden Eynde had a burn-out. She told writer Annemarie Peeters her story....
Testerep
Testerep is an opera by Koen Boesman and Peter Spaepen (then TG Vagevuur, now the new theatre company BRODER). About a strip of land that used to lie by the Belgian...
Fairy Queen
A scenography out of the ordinary. Fairy Queen is a semi-opera by Purcell, based on A Midsummer Night’s dream by Shakespeare. Dramaturg Isaline Claeys adapted the t...
Hartloper
It’s far from the usual to get an assignment from a congregation of elderly nuns. They asked me to improvise a short film on the story of a young woman that started ...
Musica Divina 2022
Managing my website, I always wonder if it's better to gather all Musica Divina campaigns into one item, the way I do it for the Lunalia campaigns. But every year,...
Silhouettes for sale
In March 2022, the opera Fairy Queen, brought to you by the orchestra and singers of international ensemble Vox Luminis, premièred first in Palau de la Musica ...
Verdwijntijd: The book
I really enjoyed illustrating this book. ‘Vanishing point’ is a project about burnout and how we all flirt with the limits of what is acceptable, what is affordable ...
Musica Divina 2021
Every year I think of compiling all the Musica Divina designs into one webpage, and then I don't. Because every year, the design for this very special festival is...
Lunalia
Lunalia 2023! You will never be alone again, says the punchline, and that's a powerful, promising phrase.
Here's the trailer:
Some campaign...
WOLF
'WOLF' is a drawn concert inspired by the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, played by Ludo Mariën on accordeon. A journey trough a very specific landscape, ...
Le Bestiaire
Le Bestiaire is a special project in the way that it combines three of my favorite occupations (etching, design and photography) in one. Roeland Hendrikx ensemble...
La Princesse Arabe
I designed the set, costumes, props and backdrop drawings for 'La Princesse Arabe', a fabulous Opera that was presented in Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse earlier...
Stabat Mater
Soprano Ann De Prest, countertenor Clint Van der Linden and organ player Jan Devlieger wanted to perform Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, along with a very powerfull...
PUSH
I designed the set, costumes and video for this production at La Monnaie called 'Push', based on the story of Simon Gronowski. Shortly before the première, in March ...
Chasing
Photographer and dear friend Stefan Vanthuyne and editor Jean Pierre Bauduin present this special edition of Stefan's series ‘Chasing my dog in the woods’. I’ve desi...
Workshops in CC's
The past year, due to the pandemic, I couldn't provide any workshops at home. So I decided to record quarantaine workshops: five minute videos, talking about the...
Workshops dance and visual art
Since 2019, Tim Stevens and I are offering workshops for children and youngsters, combining both of our forces: he is a dancer and educator, I am a visual artist...
Kempen 2030
I'm extra grateful when I can use my talents for projects that take a stand or make a difference. The IOK company asked me to create the logo, campaign images and...
Bobonnekoekjes
In 2019 my artistic path took an unexpected turn, when I decided to accept an offer out of the usual. It has been fascinating to take first steps in animated...
Online quarantaine workshops
When the Corona virus reached Belgium and all schools were closed, I decided to make a series of video’s, teaching art to children online for free, in small w...
Musica Divina 2020
Musica Divina 2020.
In the first three weeks of the lockdown, I was locked inside my studio. With a pack of gold paper. And Bach's cello-suites. And a theme...
Virtual conversations
'Laatstejaars in lockdown'.
In the academic year 2019-2020, I was supposed to work with a group of eighteen year olds that would graduate from secondary school....
Pückler Karawane
The Pückler Karawane is finally on the move, spreading botanical sounds in musical gardens on both side of the German - Polish border. I’ve had the pleasure to cr...
Workshops dance and visual art
Since 2019, Tim Stevens and I are offering workshops for children and youngsters, combining both of our forces: he is a dancer and educator, I am a visual artist....
Workshops in the mountains
The workshops I give every year for Nightingale's founder Thomas Schutz in the mountains of Bavaria are unforgetteable, I think as much for me as for the kids that...
Coaching teenagers
Da'Kan festival is an initiative taken by Sara Dejaeghere and her very engaged collegues, teachers from the SIGO secundary school in Gistel. Every year, they...
Musica Divina 2019
One of the most rewarding long-term engagements I’ve developed so far is the coörperation with Festival of Flanders Mechelen. Twice I year I make the campaign im...
Workshop migration
In November 2018 I gave a one-afternoon workshop on the theme 'migration' at community centre Wabo, located just outside Brussels. I worked with the kids on the...
Marius & Stella
Marius and Stella are the main characters in a social media Saga that was launched by Erfpunt in September 2018. They use the characters and their family stories to...
Workshops in libraries
The past few years I gave a few workshops on demand in libraries. They would give me a specific assignment: a certain theme or certain local heritage to work on....
Musica Divina 2018
'MUSICA DIVINA' festival presents concerts in abbeys and churches in the environment of Mechelen. In 2017 I was invited by Festival director Jelle Dierickx to...
Theater Tartaar
From February to May 2018 I gave workshops for Theater Tartaar, in communities in the outskirts of Brussels. Theater Tartaar is a company of mentally disabled adult...
Er is geen boek
From January to April 2018, MUS-E sent me to Zelzate, an industrial community near the Dutch border, to work with a group of 18-year olds. MUS-E is an organisation...
Musica Divina 2017
'MUSICA DIVINA' festival presents concerts in nine abbeys and churches in the environment of Mechelen. In 2017 I was invited by Festival director Jelle Dierickx to...
Concertgebouw Brugge
At Concertgebouw Brugge, the 2017-2018 season was introducing quite some novelties: a new house style, some major architectural changes in the building, many...
