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On this page, you will find an overview of exhibitions, personal projects, and commissions.
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Antwerp. Fashion Festival
When Woche meets NEL
Façon Jacmin
When Woche meets NEL
Façon Jacmin
UPCOMING
04.06—07.06.2026
Discover the installation and collection during the Antwerp Fashion. Festival at the Woche shop, Oever 5. June 4 to 7 from 11:00 to 18:00.
After the festival, we’ll be open every weekend in June, saturdays and sundays from 13:00 to 18:00.
We made an edition of 40 silver screenprints on carré scarves. All deadstock fabrics in different colors and materials. The scarves can be worn with handcrafted silver Woche jewelry, round and spiral shaped pieces that move with the fabric.
Video stills by Femke Appeltans
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Also on view during the festival days:
my installation ‘Afterimage’ for Façon Jacmin fall winter 26/27 show.
Schildersstraat 41, Antwerp.
︎︎︎Website Festival
︎︎︎Woche
︎︎︎Façon Jacmin
04.06—07.06.2026
Discover the installation and collection during the Antwerp Fashion. Festival at the Woche shop, Oever 5. June 4 to 7 from 11:00 to 18:00.
After the festival, we’ll be open every weekend in June, saturdays and sundays from 13:00 to 18:00.
We made an edition of 40 silver screenprints on carré scarves. All deadstock fabrics in different colors and materials. The scarves can be worn with handcrafted silver Woche jewelry, round and spiral shaped pieces that move with the fabric.
Video stills by Femke Appeltans
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Also on view during the festival days:
my installation ‘Afterimage’ for Façon Jacmin fall winter 26/27 show.
Schildersstraat 41, Antwerp.
︎︎︎Website Festival
︎︎︎Woche
︎︎︎Façon Jacmin
Raising Statues
Horst Arts and Music Festival
Horst Arts and Music Festival
An installation of eight flags at Asiat Park, Vilvoorde.
Made in collaboration with artist Marilou Dejans
14.05—30.09.2026
Positioned on top of the park’s recurring concrete sewer columns, these flags rise high, inviting us to engage in the debate about women in public space. It redresses the balance of representation by bringing femininity into the traditionally male-dominated environment of Asiat Park, rooted in its history as a military base.
Raising Statues came into being during an intensive trajectory through a collaboration between Campus De Brug with a group of secondary school students in Vilvoorde and BiLT, a project of TheWorkshop.
Curators: Louise Goegebeur & Margot Bossy
Production: Onkruid vzw
Pictures by Alies Torfs, Elias Derboven, Angelina Nikolayeva & Julien Janssens
︎︎︎Website Horst Festival
Made in collaboration with artist Marilou Dejans
14.05—30.09.2026
Positioned on top of the park’s recurring concrete sewer columns, these flags rise high, inviting us to engage in the debate about women in public space. It redresses the balance of representation by bringing femininity into the traditionally male-dominated environment of Asiat Park, rooted in its history as a military base.
Raising Statues came into being during an intensive trajectory through a collaboration between Campus De Brug with a group of secondary school students in Vilvoorde and BiLT, a project of TheWorkshop.
Curators: Louise Goegebeur & Margot Bossy
Production: Onkruid vzw
Pictures by Alies Torfs, Elias Derboven, Angelina Nikolayeva & Julien Janssens
︎︎︎Website Horst Festival
In Bloom
Solo exhibition at Rufus Gallery
25.10—23.11.2025
Pictures by Gert Cornelis
Are you interested in a work? Please email jens@rufus.gallery
︎︎︎Interview by Cara Brems for Trends Style Magazine
︎︎︎More information on the gallery’s website
25.10—23.11.2025
Pictures by Gert Cornelis
Are you interested in a work? Please email jens@rufus.gallery
︎︎︎Interview by Cara Brems for Trends Style Magazine
︎︎︎More information on the gallery’s website
