Sketchbook
'Sketchbook' is my personal work, a series of etchings. The sequence is rooted in a sketchbook I made in 2014. The exhibition of these engravings took place in...
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, ...
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...
Da'Kan Festival
Da'Kan festival is an initiative taken by Sara Dejaeghere and her very engaged collegues, teachers from the SIGO secundary school in Gistel. They challenged their...
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...
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 ...
Lunalia
The punchline for LUNALIA 2019 is 'The Sound of M'... As we wanted to create a campaign that was very similar to the previous one, very recognisable, we used the...
Workshop migratie
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...
Bobonnekoekjes
What I like most about this project, is that it gives me the chance to discover the slow process of animated movie making. 'Bobonnekoekjes' is a story written by...
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...
Workshop Brueghel
In February 2019 I gave a series of workshops about Brueghel at the library of Ternat, in the context of the Brueghel year. We had sixty kids per day, and they all...
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 group 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...
Amaranthus BOSCH
Brussels based baroque ensemble Amaranthus invited me in January 2015 to become a member of their team, a visual artist among musicians. Their goal was to create...
Undercover
Undercover is a series of images I made at the end of the 2016 Arles Photobook Fair, when all the booksellers protected their tables and books with cloths of...
Babel
Babel is an opera for children, written by Frank Adam (text) and Sam Vloemans (music). It is a co-production between the Flemish Opera, I Solisti del Vento and Het...
Kunstateliers voor kinderen
Every school holiday I teach art to children in my own studio. Elke schoolvakantie geef ik kunstateliers voor kinderen in mijn eigen werkruimte in...
Workshop foto's bewerken
In 2017, I made the campaign images for Concertgebouw's new season. I made photographs and then worked on the images with different techniques, adding paint or ink,...
Elk dier is anders
Jolien is eleven years old. She has the gift of writing and uses her poems to process life's events. As an exclusive gift for Jolien's communion, her grandparents...
Nightingale
Baritone Thomas Schütz lauched this new project, presenting a series of concerts in unusual venues, like mountain huts, factories etc. Nightingale is bringing ...
Les Métamorphoses
Les Métamorphoses is a new orchestra, formed in March 2017 at the occasion of a benefit concert for Chaine de l'Espoir, an organisation that performs surgery on ...
L'acteur et l'écrit
L'acteur et l'écrit, the theatre company of stage director Frédéric Dussenne, gave me a carte blanche on this publication, that will mark the company's twenty years ...
Calpe
vzw Hardscore sent me to Spain, to make portraits of composer Boudewijn Buckinckx. In their annual festival of contemporary classical music, Voorwaarts Maart, they...
Amaranthus Che Folia
Brussels based baroque ensemble Amaranthus invited me in January 2015 to become a member of the team, a visual artist among musicians. They wanted my visuals to be...
Workshop Draken delen
This was a workshop at STAM museum Gent, with 25 children age 6 to 12. Sabine de Vos and I were there to present our new book 'En toen zei de Draak...', and after...
En toen zei de draak...
En toen zei de draak... (And then, the dragon said...) is a book for children from the age of six, with fairy tales from all over the world. A versatile mix of folk...
Quichotte
This project is one of the most impulsive things I've ever done. I heard baritone Christian Lujan sing some Ravel and Ibert songs about Don Quichotte, and offered...
¡Ambras!
¡AMBRAS! Cervantes dolend door Vlaanderen. Is a performance written by Frank Adam (text), with music by Pol Vanfleteren (music), starring Hans Peter Janssens, ...
Amaranthus MNF
Brussels based baroque ensemble Amaranthus invited me in January 2015 to become a member of their team, a visual artist among musicians. Their goal was to create...
Gleichgesinnte
I am currently working on the design for the new cd of Russian baritone Alexey Kokhanov. The cd combines artsongs by Shubert and Rachmaninov. The album is called...
Oncofonie
The Dutch foundation 'Kanker in Beeld' organises writing, acting, singing and drawing classes for people who have - and fight against - cancer. They were organising...
Scale models
"Inspiration exists, but is has to find us working". Scale models of things that speak to me. Like this abandoned, impressive, beautiful tree I found in the forest....
Edgar II
Edgar was my first paper bird. Then came Edgar II and baby Edgar. Edgar and baby Edgar flew from the nest already. Edgar II will stay with me.
Revalidation centre
The revalidation centre Waas in Lokeren works with children who have autism, adhd, down syndrome, brain damage, epilepsy, learning difficulties, emotional...
Harelbeke
In 2012 I was approached to do a photographic installation in a new elderly home in Harelbeke - 10.000 square meters of free canvas, 4 years of time. Together with...
Painting Pilars
I am currently working on this unusual mural project. A primary school asked me to paint six pilars on the playground. Each pilar represents a continent. The...