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Kaatje Verschoren

Antwerp, Belgium

Born in 1985, Kaatje Verschoren is a dedicated photographer who inherited her passion for the craft from her father, himself an accomplished photographer.

She studied at Luca Brussels and completed her Master’s in Photography in 2008. Since 2009, she has been working as a professional photographer, specializing in architecture, portraits, and interior photography. Her work has graced the pages of various (inter)national interior design magazines.

In her free time, she enjoys capturing the charm of cities during her travels. Her “Photograffiti style” can be described as colorful and minimalistic.

© Kaatje Verschoren

Boris Pellegroms

Ghent, Belgium

Boris Pellegroms designs and makes objects out of brass and aluminium in his workshop in Gent, Belgium. He is fascinated by the beauty originating from working by hand. The ability to keep some lines or edges really crisp while others can be softened just enough make it possible to create something different than with machines or through band work. Boris focusses on textures and patinas to create objects that are also nice to touch and keep evolving with time.

© Boris Pellegroms © portrait BP © Objects _ Alexander Popelier

Studio Mire

Brussels, Belgium

mire is a collaborative multidisciplinary studio bringing
together architects and artisans, working across the
complementary fields of architecture, art, construction,
scenography, landscape, and craftsmanship.
Based between Brussels and Paris, the studio develops
projects at various scales, creating sensory experiences
ranging from objects to territorial interventions.
We design projects deeply rooted in their context,
highlighting the unique character of each place and the
people who inhabit it. Our approach is driven by a pursuit
of precision, elegance of proportions, attention to detail,
narratives, economy of means, diversion, and reuse.
The studio operates through an open network of
collaborators, fueled by the sharing of knowledge, skills,
and passions. Mire is a collaboration between Clémence
Charpenet (woodworker, cabinetmaker), Lucile De Gori
(architect), and Lénaïck Kunze (architect).

© Images by Studio B.Helle

Nathan Vrebos

Leuven, Belgium

Nathan Vrebos (1999, Leuven) is a designer and maker living and working in Leuven. He studied Product Design at Luca School of Arts in Genk and obtained his master’s degree there in 2022. He supplemented this with a training course as a cabinet maker in Mechelen the following year.

Originating from a family of makers, Nathan Vrebos grew up among all kinds of tools and materials. Under the guidance of his father and grandfather, he learned to work with his hands from an early age. This background translates into a process-driven design approach, where he blends an instinctive attraction towards handicraft with curiosity towards all kinds of media, techniques and materials and where he shapes his objects in a consistent dialogue with all these components.

© Nathan Vrebos

Studio Morevi – Ana & Frederik

Antwerp, Belgium

Morevi is the creative moniker of the Georgian-Belgian artist duo Ana Naskidashvili and Frederik Poisquet. The studio was founded on a desire to reconnect with slow, deliberate handwork and natural materials.

Central to their practice is the making process, which involves a series of meditative, repetitive gestures. Morevi emphasizes the relationships formed between the material and the creator, the artwork and its audience, and the interactions between the materials themselves. Their method results in minimalist artworks that subtly blend a natural, unrestrained visual language with intentional human intervention, evoking quietude and poetic resonance.

© Studio Morevi

Louise Wauters – Pila Pattern

Brussels, BE

Louise Wauters, born in Brussels in 1990, is an interior designer who graduated from ESA Saint-Luc Brussels and Politecnico di Milano.

The conviction that manufactured materials and objects deserve new lives by avoiding the use of new materials has shaped her entire career. The metamorphosis from plastic beach trash to functional design raised the question: how could these colorful, durable material objects ever be considered trash? Today, she continues to use recycled plastic to create new aesthetic objects, and you wouldn’t be able to tell that they came from trash.

Pila Pattern “Totems” are four 3D printed stools, which can be stacked in the shape of a totem. It is a new concept committed to use recycled material, useful like furniture, but eye-catching like a sculpture.

© Pila Pattern Images work @luciledrv

Peter Henry Waterschoot

Ghent, Belgium

Peter H. Waterschoot, Belgium, °1969, is a visual artist whose photography delves into themes of time, memory, and absence. After studying photography at the Academy of Ghent in 2009, he developed a distinctive style characterized by evocative imagery of desolate interiors and urban landscapes.

Peter H. Waterschoot’s artistic journey reflects a deep engagement with the ephemeral and the evocative. His work captures the ambiance of transient spaces, weaving narratives that oscillate between nostalgia and futuristic desolation. Waterschoot’s visual lexicon—marked by hues of saffron gold, tints of red, electric blue, pink, and shadowy greys—evokes both the tangible world and an enigmatic parallel reality.

© Peter H. Waterschoot

photos (1) electric blue cascade, Kagoshima
(2) Blue Room

Lieven Lefere

Roeselare, Belgium

Lieven Lefere (b. 1978, Roeselare, BE) is an artist who plays with the complex relationship between reality and the photographic image.

Lefere is extremely meticulous in his work and his process is remarkably slow. With great care, he manipulates all the parameters that make a photograph what it is. His process often starts months before the picture is taken. He constructs his images with a certain scale and framing in mind, models the space, makes maquettes, decides how he wants the light to fall on the scene. Lefere creates a unique atmosphere in his images, which far transcend photography of the purely documentary kind, depicting reality in a similar way to how it appears in painting or architecture. The absence of human figures and his fascination with impermanence reinforce that atmosphere. In Lefere’s work, time seems manipulated: delayed, frozen or even absent.

Due to his approach, Lefere’s images are always developed over an extended period of time. This protracted process yields highly layered images that are charged with meaning and require patience to decipher. They are the antithesis of what we usually associate with photography: more a constructed intention than a slice of life, more monument than snapshot. Cryptic, evocative and alienating all at once.

Hanne Lamon

Ghent, Belgium

Hanne Lamon b.1982, is a fine art photographer based in Ghent, Belgium.

For two decades Hanne Lamon has been making still photo recordings of her everyday life that contain an unruly beauty. She is in search of the undercurrent of her photographic production, which appears to be extremely fragile and contradictory. Lamon’s poetic universe evinces great sensibility and melancholy. The photographer creates images that throw light on a fragile and intimate world. Lamon focuses on human body language, subtle touches and draperies as well as mysterious landscape, scenes and abstract compositions.
She experiments with film photography, specific types of paper and manual graphic printing processes. Her choices are well thought out and attest to a longing for an artisanal and tactile beauty.

Hanne holds a Master’s in photography (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Gent, KASK) – In 2019 she released her first self-published intimate book struggle strangle struck, with images of personal and physical entanglements. The book is more of an object, which you can view and straighten in different ways. In January this year Lamon’s artist’s book, Until the end __ I will follow you, was published with Bruno Devos / Stockmans artbooks.

Ahmed Ben Taleb

Brussels, Belgium - Morocco

Ahmed Ben Taleb (1991, Tiznit) is a Moroccan visual artist and designer living and working between Ixelles, Belgium, and Morocco. His studies of art and design in Morocco and Paris has shaped his work with a distinctly international and multicultural perspective.

Through his projects and research, he consistently seeks to bridge the gap between art and design, exploring the functional and formal identities of objects and forms. His work goes beyond aesthetics, striving to uncover the deeper significance and identity of everyday objects, elevating them beyond their superficial shapes and volumes.

Inspired by the vibrant colours of city walls and landscapes from his childhood, Ben Taleb’s artwork often features a layered use of coloured pencils, creating soft yet distinctive dimensions. Though pencil remains a favourite medium, his work spans a variety of materials, including acrylic, ceramics, and other textures, showcasing his versatility and ability to blend different forms and techniques.