Team Archives - IMAGINAIR Art/space

Katrien Vanderbiest

Brussels, Belgium

Katrien Vanderbiest (1981, Brussels BE) is a creative maker and director, at home in dance and word, in image and scenography.
She makes sculptural performances and theatrical images and installations.
Katrien is passionate about bringing creatives together, looking for innovative ideas, researching projects and exploring the art and creative world in which she works and lives.

Katrien holds a Master’s degree in Dramatic Arts and is pursuing a professional Bachelor’s degree in Photography at LUCA School of Arts. As a free student, she studied a ManaMa Theatre Studies at the University of Antwerp.

Together with Geoffrey, Katrien forms the basis of IMAGINAIR. As an artistic duo, the interaction between the different media they work with inspires them.

© Katrien Vanderbiest © portrait Wim Janssens

Bas Pattyn

Brussels, Belgium

Bas Pattyn (1982, Belgium) is a minimalist artist and designer.

He creates art and designs objects based on formal simplicity. Bas Pattyn’s binary thinking is reflected in his creations. The apparent simplicity of his works serves as a means to translate the complexities of the world into simple and straightforward forms. With few lines, he crafts stories which are nevertheless layered. Educated in graphic design and furniture design, Bas – as many of us – is in pursuit of establishing his place in the world.

As creative manager, Bas is co-responsible for IMAGINAIR Art/space Brussels.

© Bas Pattyn © photography Arnold Henri

Geoffrey Lambert – Atelier IMAGINAIR

Brussels, Belgium

Geoffrey Lambert (1985, Brussels)
is a self-taught designer/maker/artist who dedicates a broad knowledge of materials and techniques to an intrinsic aesthetic. His field of work covers a broad range. He creates furniture and sculptures or in-situ installations. He is passionate about scenography and exhibition design.

In his design objects, function does not disappear completely, but is no longer the object’s raison d’être. By exploring the process of burning, the maker searches for the soul of the specific wood he holds in hand.
Geoffrey researched this technique for years and continued to refine it. The many varieties of black and the different textures continue to fascinate him. The burning abstracts the wood until only the essence remains, that which comes alive in the imagination. The creative process as a slow attempt to capture what is elusive.

On the basis of his own practice, Geoffrey founded IMAGINAIR together with Katrien, in which the duo brings to life the different media they work with in a multi-disciplinary world.

© Geoffrey Lambert © portrait Wim Janssens © images work Katrien Vanderbiest

Bruno Devos

Antwerp, BE

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© Bruno Devos © portrait Wim Janssens

Monica Piloni

Brussels, Belgium

Monica Piloni, born in Curitiba, Brazil in 1978, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
She graduated from the Sculpture Course at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná (EMBAP) in 2002. Among her solo shows in Brazil, stand out “Dissident Symmetries”, Sorocaba Contemporary Art Museum (2022), “Humans, All Too Human” (2022) and “Cyclo” (2019), both in Zipper Gallery, São Paulo and “Both Odd”, Laura Marsiaj Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (2013). Furthermore, the artist participated in group exhibitions in major institutions in Brazil and abroad.

Observing her work as a whole, Piloni’s fascination with the representation of the female figure becomes clear. What originally started from the self-portrait became, over time, a symbolic portrait of all women. Art as a collective narrative, according to Piloni also an impulse for social change.

Construction and mirroring are recurring elements in Piloni’s work. In this way, the artist deforms the body to expand the perception of what the physical figure can be, making it as attractive as it is repulsive. The artist’s creatures, which although always composed of parts of the human body, also refer to mythological figures or demons, come to life in different media. The main medium in which her ‘beings’ exist is sculpture, but Piloni also manipulates them physically, virtually, through photography, animated, mounted on a pedestal or as part of an installation, all while exploring different materials such as bronze, marble, ceramic, fiberglass and plastic.

Ruben Boeren

Antwerp, BE

Ruben Boeren (1988, Antwerp) explores in his work the theatrical image and how to translate it in a contemporary and personal way.

This often results in an alienation of the underlying composition and a symbiosis of figuration and abstraction.

‘This merging of abstract and figurative morphology creates room for interpretation. This allows me to develop my own symbolism. It is interesting to see how people really develop a personal relationship with my works.‘ – Ruben Boeren

Above all, the artist celebrates the joy of painting and his ambition is to transmit that spark to the viewer.

Ruben Boeren studied painting at the Academy of Antwerp, followed by a postgraduate degree in visual research at Sint-Lucas Antwerp.