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As a Belgian artist, I have been working in Berlin since 1998 after having lived in the Netherlands for twenty years.After completing a visual arts degree (sculpture and installation) in The Hague, I studied education and teaching at the Academy for Visual Arts in Rotterdam and thereafter worked in Rotterdam in adult education.

In 1988, I moved to Berlin.This move has had a major impact on my work: it is reflected in a transition from sculpture to spatial installations.Through diverse courses of further education, studies and experiments, my work has expanded into the fields of photographic, slide, light, and video installations.

In Berlin, I participated in various group projects, organized numerous projects in the public space, and participated regularly in “Art in Public Space” competitions. The Berlinische Galerie (Museum for Modern Art and Photography in Berlin) has bought several works.
Along with these activities, I have been working for five years as a Guest Professor at the Berlin Universität der Künste.
Between 1999-2002 Guest Professor at the HISK, Antwerp In this same period, I produced my first video works.
My videowork can be seen as a perception of/ reaction to/ spaces, light, time and movement. Meditative, slow, poetic works alternate with works in which image and sound are transformed into dynamic choreographies through the use—and misuse—of montage techniques.The works are, for preference, shown as large- scale projections or distributed among a variety of monitors.They respond to the viewer and to the space in which they are shown.

My passion for space and architecture that characterises my installations and videowork is implemented the last years in art-in-public-space-projects. In the most of these realised interventions, light and movement play a predominant role.
In other proposals I worked with artificial light and reflections (by means of glassplates and natural light) Displays with poetic text , used in public spaces, are another center of focus, as well as videostills that are translated in monumental series of pictures.The merge with existing architecture, the response on existing or yet to be constructed spaces , the reaction with respect to the content of buildings, have priority in all my work and proposals.