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I am an artist based in Brussels.

My practice encompasses text, tattoo, performance, drawing, research, translation, self-organisation and transfaggotry. My work engages with queer loneliness and the transformative potential of body-modification. A sucker for intimacy, I move from the autobiographical outward, generating discursive potential from the very specific. This way, A body of work is just a body, a performance on tattooing my father for more than twenty times in the span of two years, transforms a deeply personal and eccentric experience into a speculative ground for tattooing-as-conflict-mediation, -performance, -artistic collaboration.

Parallel to my personal work, I’m also often part of collectives projects at the intersection of art research and community work, such as One Field Fallow and Aids, Archives and Arts Assemblies in Belgium. In these groups, I explore and practice self-organisation methodologies in the cultural field, rooted in a desire for other ways of working, making and being with others.

I graduated from the Ecole de Recherche Graphique (erg) with a MA in Installation and Performance. Recently, I was part of the 2025 Alternative Education Programme at Rupert, collaborated in the project Aids, Archives and Arts Assemblies in Belgium, wrote texts for the theatrical performance Peekaboo. Currently, I am part of the queer-run socio-cultural space One Field Fallow.

current projects include

dog poems for dog boys

, a performance in development,

largest organ speaks to me

, a mutlidisciplinary research project around tattooing, and an untitled experiment consisting of getting my father to shoot arrows at me.

in the future i would like to

publish a book

,

sing live and record music

,

write for other people

(’s performances, theater pieces, songs, etc),

facilitate workshops or collective creations

,

create commissionned illustrations

.

if you want something from me, have something for me, are looking to collaborate, or simply want to say hi: write here.
i like to do many things and especially what i haven’t tried yet

For full CV and/or portfolio ask here

Education

2022

2019

MA
erg - Ecole de Recherche Graphique
Brussels

BA
Académie des Beaux-Arts de Liège
Liège

Residencies

2026

2025

2024

2023

2021

2019

(upcoming) Bosacademie, Het Bos, Antwerp (BE)
(upcoming) RezGauche, Brussels (BE)
(upcoming) Hectolitre, Brussels (BE)

Monty (School of Love), Antwerp (BE)
Sodas2123, Vilnius (LT)
Rupert, Vilnius (LT)

A.pass, Brussels (BE)
BUDA Kunstcentrum, Kortrijk (BE)

BUDA Kunstcentrum, Kortrijk (BE)
Queers in Space, Brussels (BE)
De Studio, Antwerp (BE)
BUDA Kunstcentrum, Kortrijk (BE)

Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)

Cdlt+, Liège (BE)
Cercle des Beaux-Arts, Liège (BE)

Exhibitions
Performances

2025

2024

2023

2021

2020

2019

A body of work is just a body
Performance, 40’, Rupert, Vilnius (LT)

The Queer Exhibition
Group show, Cinéma Galerie, Brussels (BE)

We Are Here
Group show, Kavka Oudaan, Antwerp (BE)

Plica
Solo show during Plica market, Gent (BE)

Trans cult
Group show, La Bulle, Lille (FR)

Just like love
Solo show, That’s what X said gallery, Brussels (BE)

Peekaboo (dir. Maxime Dreesen)
Performance during try outs: Verkadefabriek, Den Bosch, Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg, Parktheater, Eindhoven, Bloos, Breda (NL)

A body of work is just a body (work in progress)
Performance, 40’, AMOQA, Athens (GR)

A portrait of Lou Sullivan,
Performance, 60’, BUDA Kunstcentrum, Kortrijk (BE)

O+C+S
Duo show, Erg gallery, Brussels (BE)

Faggots are complex beings,
Kunsthalle Pompeii, Brussels (BE)

Tattoo studio,
Performance, 3 weeks, CWB, Paris (FR)

Recreational Spaces/Fields of Action
Duo show, cdlt+ gallery, Liège (BE)

Ouverture
Group show, Cercle des Beaux-Arts, Liège (BE)

Freelance
Volunteer
Other

2026

2025

2024 - ongoing

2019 - 2024

2023

2021 - 2022

Artist
For Offerings from the Listening Field, a radio broadcast as part of the Listening Field Winter School; reading of “Unresolved Questions”
GC de Rinck, Anderlecht

SYMPOSIUM
For A.Pass Open Field, as part of One Field Fallow
A gathering by, with & for a.pass, nadine, Beursschouwburg, WIELS, Monty , De Singel, Arquitectura Expandida, wpZimmer, One Field Fallow, Constant, Topote de Acahual, kunstencentrum Buda, The Green Corridor, BNA-BBOT, radical_house, MORPHO, Agency, Danscentrum Jette, argos & more.

Artist/Toekomstdenker
For Kunstenpunt’s trajectory “Meerstemmigheid in het kunstveld” Kunsthal Mechelen, Kunsthal Gent (BE)

ARtistDuring “The Secretary, the Shaman, the Scholar, the Lobbyst, the Publicist and the Virtuoso”, a public session between Curatorial Studies, Rupert Alternative Education Programme (AEP) and Level Five

TranslatorOf various texts excerpts as part of “Cette évidente et bruyante ingouvernabilité” 5/6, a series of ateliers by artist CastilloLa Bellone/Le Centre des Arts Scéniques, Brussels (BE)

Translator/co-facilitator
Of the text “The Ocana We Deserve” (Paul B. Preciado) as part of “Cette évidente et bruyante ingouvernabilité” 4/6, a series of ateliers by artist Castillo
La Bellone/Le Centre des Arts Scéniques, Brussels (BE)
Co-mediator/co-facilitator
For a collective and self-organised theatre creation
(Bromance, Lyv Santerre and Lilith Knock)
INSAS, Brussels (BE)

Co-organiser/co-facilitator
For “Caring collaborations beyond capitalism”, a workshop by One Field Fallow, on invitation by Queers on the Move/Qommunity
Organisation and facilitation
Mona, Jette (BE)

Artist/facilitator/organiser
At One Field Fallow, socio-cultural collective and laboratory for artistic research,
Brussels (BE)
Tattoo artist

ARTIST
For Queer-Future-Thinking ateliers
De Studio, Antwerpen (BE)

Organiser/facilitator
For Transmascfem?!, a collective discussion for peopel who identity as transmasc and fem
Naast Monique, Brussels (BE)

Organiser/facilitator
For TPG@ERG, a critical thinking workshop for transfagdyke students, teachers and administrators at erg school of arts
Brussels (BE)

Tattoo studio manager
For Bubble Studio
Brussels (BE)

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