UPCOMING /
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AWARDS /
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2024 October Award for Best Bachelor’s Thesis in Innovation and Development, Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, Ghent Co-awarded with Griet Teck, Title: "A Film Therapeutic Space Between Life and Death: How can film be used as a creative therapeutic tool in palliative care?"
2019 award Best Experimental Short Film Meeting at the seaside & Honorable Mention Sound Design Yoerik Roevens, Film and Academy Festival Chili, https://scafafest.wixsite.com/sfaaf/winners-18
2005 jury Prize, higher distinction, Centra Peta Fuga, Sint Lucas Gent
FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS /
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2025 7th February, Moving ~ Silence - Film screening and conversation evening, Compagnie Cordial, Ghent
2024 7th November, Moving ~ Silence - Film screening and conversation evening, S.M.A.K. Ghent
2024 25th October, Moving ~ Silence - Film screening and conversation evening, Buurtloods Lucien De Ridder, Ghent
​2024 3rd October 2024, Premiere of Moving ~ Silence - Film screening and conversation evening, S.M.A.K. Ghent
2019 official Selection, Rendez-vous à la mer, categorie ‘Fresh Air’, filmfestival Istanbul Experimentel, Turkey, https://istanbulexperimental.com/ program-2019/
2019 official Selection, Rendez-vous à la mer, category ‘Opstromers’, Filmfestival Tegenstroom, Oostburg, The Netherlands, https://tegenstroomfestival.com
2019 official Selection short film competition 5th FINDECOIN Independent International Short Film Festival “The day is short” Venezuela, https://findecoin2017.wixsite.com/findecoin
2018 world premiere, Rendez-vous à la mer (Meeting at the seaside), Selection Cinema in Trangresion, International Festival Signe de Nuit, Paris, http://www.signesdenuit.com/, http://www.signesdenuit.com/paris/P16/E_CT_04.htm
2014 screening MILAAP, selection for Ensor, best documentary film, Film Festival Ostend
2014 screening, MILAAP, Cinéprivé, Ghent
2013 premiere MILAAP at 'de Centrale' Ghent, Europalia India
RESIDENCIES / PROJECTS /
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2024 January – May, Initiator of the film therapeutic program Moving Silence: How film (camera) can have a therapeutic effect on people in the asylum procedure, as part of the training to become an art therapist, in collaboration with S.M.A.K. and Fedasil Ghent
2015 artist in Residence Isola Comacina, Italy, selected / funded by Arts and Heritage Services, Flemish government, https://www.artinresidence.it/.properties/isola-comacina/
SCHOLARSHIPS /
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2012 selection MILAAP by Bart Becks, for AngelTv (crowdfunding), with the support of the Belgian national television VRT and CANVAS.
2010 - 2011 private coaching by Jeannice Adriaansens, Scenario writer, supported by VAF
2010 financial support by VAF (Flemish audio visual fund) scriptwriting, project 'De dood van Fritz' (The Death of Fritz)
EXHIBITIONS /
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​2025 solo Exhibition, l'autre Corps de l'Autre, Detergent/Emergent, Veurne
2023 group Exhibition, zomersalon 2023: BUY LOCAL, Ghent
2023 group Exhibition, symposium 'Reparative Research' LUCA, Ghent
2021 performance in collaboration with Klaas Vanhee, Allan Told Me Birds Sing Louder Than They Used To, Kunstkoers, Ghent
2021 group Exhibition, zomersalon 2021:BUY LOCAL,
2021 group Exhibition, ghentWindow-project, Binnenstebuiten, Brugse Poort Ghent
2020 group Exhibition, zomersalon 2020:BUY LOCAL, Ghent
2019 group Exhibition Taart in de brievenbus, Mariakerke Ghent, https://www.instagram.com/taartindebrievenbus/?hl=nl
2019 group Exhibition BLANCO, Naomi Invites to exhibit a work that can be, Ghent
2018 group Exhibition YUGEN, Ghent, curator Jan Hoet Junior
2016 group Exhibition, War Party, Museum Night Fever, The Royal Military Museum, Brussels https://klm-mra.be/D7t/en/content/war-party-museum- night-fever-military-museum http://www.museumnightfever.be/
2015 group Exhibition BACK/STAY, 10 years after graduation, curator Jeroen Laureyns, HUSET, Ghent
2006 group Exhibition Young Artists (selected by) Hans Martens
2006 group Exhibition 'Identiteitsbom', ABBV Jongeren, Kortrijk
2005 group Exhibition Gallery Jan Colle, Ghent
2005 group Exhibition Coming People, S.M.A.K, Ghent, https://smak.be/en/exhibition/8246
2004 group Exhibition Graphics, Gemeente Heist Op Den Berg
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BUBLICATIONS / RELEASES /
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2025 Illustrations for the book Stille confetti, text by Carolien Frijns, published by Krummholz bv (ISBN 978-9083555904)
2022 Contribution in Artuarium: The Grammar of Art School, edited by Nancy Vansieleghem & Volkmar Mühleis, published by Grafische Cel (Ghent), ISBN 978-9492574206.
2021 L’IDEE – imagine the future, EPO Publishers, January 2021. Contribution to the publication My Dear, initiative of the Frans Masereelfonds, in collaboration with the artists’ collective Pierre Muylle, Alain Platel, Gerda Dendooven, Ben Benaouisse, Lisaboa Houbrechts, and Mario Debaene. ISBN: 978‑94‑6267‑329‑8
2017 Breedhoek. M‑decreet: inclusief of exclusief? (docufilm, 2017), co‑director with Nancy Vansieleghem, LUCA School of Arts. A 23‑minute documentary exploring perspectives on the Belgian M‑Decree and inclusive education, commissioned by the Kinderrechtencommissariaat and NVSG.
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LECTURES /
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2024 2nd December, Guest lecture with Griet Teck at RITCS: The use of film (camera) as a therapeutic tool in the context of dying and grief, See more
2024 27th November, Guest Lecture, Extract from Moving Silence: How film (camera) can be supportive (therapeutic) for people who have fled, International Conference on Culture & Mental Health: Refugees, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, See more.
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