Cultural work

  • 2024

    Kerk Ruisbroek - Sint-Pieters-Leeuw

    The long-awaited renovation work has begun. It will transform the Ruisbroek church in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw for the future. This was a…

  • 2024

    Leopoldskazerne Gent

    After several busy years of conversion works, the disused military barracks, which later housed artists' studios and HISK, has been…

  • 2024

    Churches - Vlaams Bouwmeester

    On 30 January 2024, Team Vlaams Bouwmeester presented the book "Herscheppen. Ontwerpend onderzoek voor het Projectbureau Herbestemming Kerken 2016-2021".For several…

  • 2024

    Fin-de-Siècle Museum

    On 8 January 2024, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum closed its doors. Located in the heart of Brussels, this museum is part…

  • 2023

    Fierensblokken Antwerp

    The Fierens blocks on the corner of Nationalestraat and Kronenburgstraat in Antwerp Belgium have almost been demolished. After years of…

  • 2023

    Atlas Van Gogh in Brabant

    Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) spent half his life in Brabant, in the Netherlands. A significant part of his oeuvre was…

  • 2023

    Pillows Hotel Amsterdam

    Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park is a 5-star hotel located on the Mauritskade in Amsterdam. The building,…

  • 2020-2022

    The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp - the new museum

    The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp in Belgium (KMSKA)was closed for major renovation and reopened on September 24th, 2022.…

  • 2011-2020

    The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp - construction site

    The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen) is closed for major renovation. The work…

  • 2022

    Singer Museum Laren

    The new Nardinc wing of the Singer Museum in Laren, the Netherlands, is intended to house the art collection of…

  • 2022

    Campus Cadix

    Photography for Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten. The project for the new Cadix school campus on the Eilandje in Antwerp Belgium is…

  • 2022

    Parkzicht 2 - HAMA

    The Parkzicht 2 flat block designed by HAMA Architecten has a central yet quiet location on the park, the Scheldt…

  • 2022

    De Reusch water tower

    Photography for Dedrie ArchitectenThe national monumental water tower in Schimmert The Netherlands was built in 1926-1927 and designed in Amsterdam…

  • 2022

    Senate The Hague by HCVA

    The temporary home of the Upper House and Council of State accomodation of the Senate, The Hague (NL), designed by…

  • 2022

    Delen Private Bank

    Delen Private Bank celebrates its 85th anniversary with a passion for art. In cooperation with 3 Antwerp galleries, 100 Belgian…

  • 2022

    Vogelenzang Ghent - HAMA

    12 social housing units, Vogelenzang, Ghent (B) by HAMA architectenarchitectural competition – 1st prizePhotography © Karin BorghoutsPost production Wouter Bollaerts

  • 2021

    Social Housing HAMA

    A social housing project of 50 units in Willebroek, Belgium for HAMA architecten. The design won a 1st prize in…

  • 2021

    Town Hall Tilburg

    Photography of exterior and interior of the Townhall in Tilburg, the Netherlands, for Dedrie Architecten (NL). Artwork in the municipality…

  • 2010-2022

    Royal Greenhouses Laeken Belgium

    At the time of their construction (1874-1905) the Royal Greenhouses at Laeken (Brussels) were quite exceptional owing to their scale,…

  • 2020

    De Bijloke

    The Bijloke Music Centre is a cultural institution for classical music, jazz and contemporary arts, within the Bijloke site in…

  • 2021

    Boekentoren Gent

    Karin Borghouts was invited to photograph the beautifully renovated and still empty interiors of De Boekentoren (book tower) in Ghent.…

  • 2021

    Harbour Building ANTWERP

    Photography for Sergison Bates architects. The site is part of the Cadix regeneration area in the former dockland district of…

  • 2020-2021

    The Final Journey. De laatste reis.

    The home, the place where we can safely retreat. It is also the place where our identity becomes visible. Interiors…

  • 2020

    CODA

    Coda is a palliative center in Wuustwezel, Belgium designed by noAarchitecten. Started in 2013 as a Pilot Project Care by…

  • 2019

    Fire Station Wilrijk by HCVA

    Karin Borghouts photographed then new fire station Wilrijk for Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten.More information (Dutch). Look at Divisare

  • 2019

    Gruuthusemuseum Brugge

    After a 5 year renovation and refurbishment period, the Gruuthusemuseum in Bruges is now open. Besides works on the interior,…

  • 2019

    HCVA architecten - Museum De Lakenhal Leiden

    Museum De Lakenhal is Leiden’s municipal museum for art, applied art and history and since its inception in 1874 it…

  • 2016-2019

    Museum De Lakenhal Leiden

    Between 2016 and 2019, Karin Borghouts followed the rebuilding process at Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden (NL) with her camera.…

  • 2019

    Het Predikheren Mechelen

    The Predikheren Mechelen. Transformation of a Monastery Ruin into a City Library.Het Predikheren Mechelen. Herbestemming van een kloosterruïne tot stadsbibliotheek…

  • 2019

    Museum Dr. Guislain

    Museum Dr. Guislain is a museum on the history of psychiatry founded in 1986 and based in Ghent Belgium. The…

  • 2018-2019

    RTT buildings in Belgium

    In fall 2018 Karin Borghouts and Filip Dujardin were commissioned by Proximus to photograph a number of former RTT buildings…

  • 2018

    Cadix architectural project by HCVA

    Karin Borghouts photographed a social housing complex designed by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architects. North of the centre of Antwerp lies…

  • 2018

    Mechelen, in the footsteps of Margareta

    The City of Mechelen Belgium commissioned Karin Borghouts to photograph over 40 historical buildings and places with origins in the…

  • 2018

    Interbellum house Huib Hoste in Knokke

    The house De Beir is a modernist building designed by the Belgian architect Huib Hoste in 1924. It is situated…

  • 2018

    Ruysdael & Saenredam in Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar

    In Alkmaar, the Netherlands, the 500-year anniversary of the great or St Lawrence Church will be celebrated in 2018. The…

  • 2017

    Prison in protected landscape

    Commissioned by AR-TUR, Centre for Architecture, Karin Borghouts depicts the prisons of Merksplas and Hoogstraten. Merksplas is the oldest prison…

  • 2017

    B30 The Hague - KAAN Architecten

    The governmental building B30 in The Hague was first conceived by Daniël Knuttel in 1917, and now became the new…

  • 2017

    De Blokskens - HCV Architecten

    Commissioned assignment social housing project “De Blokskens” in Zandhoven Belgium for Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten. “Aan de rand van Zandhoven…

  • 2015-2016

    Antwerpen, stad verbeeld

    Antwerpen, stad verbeeld (‘Antwerp, A City Depicted’) forms a diptych with Antwerpen, verloren stad (‘Antwerp, Lost City’). Where the first…

  • 2011-2018

    The Royal Palace Brussels

    Karin Borghouts is photographing in the Royal Palace in the center of Brussels Belgium since 2011. These photographs are exclusively…

  • 2016

    Ghent Floralies

    The Ghent Floralies (Floraliën Gent) is a unique exhibition of flowers and plants in historical city locations in Ghent Belgium.…

  • 2015

    Historische Huizen Gent

    Karin Borghouts photographed exteriors and interiors of 7 Historische Huizen (historical houses) in Ghent Belgium. A commissioned assignment by the…

  • 2012-2015

    Boekentoren

    De Boekentoren (Book Tower) in Ghent Belgium is an architectural masterpiece (1936-1942) by the Belgian architect Henry Van de Velde…

  • 2014

    Churches of Ghent

    Karin Borghouts has photographed 46 churches in Ghent (B); a commissioned assignment of STAM, citymuseum Ghent, BE. Solo exhibition in…

  • 2014

    Bruges - Kantje boord

    A commissioned assignment of Museum Bruges. Lace in past and present through the lens of Karin Borghouts Snapshot is a…

  • 2012-2014

    Stadsfotograaf Antwerpen City photographer

    Karin Borghouts was selected as a city photographer of Antwerp, Belgium from March 2012 until March 2014, an inititative of…

  • 2013

    Antwerp city architect

    Stadsbouwmeester (City Architect) of Antwerp, Kristiaan Borret, commissioned Karin Borghouts to photograph buildings and sites under construction in Antwerp during…

  • 2012-2013

    Ghent Vooruit 100

    Vooruit Arts Center is a historic complex in the Belgian city of Ghent, Belgium. Vooruit was originally the festival and…

  • 2013

    Bindingen

    Portraits and stories of foreign people living in Antwerp BE. ‘Bindingen’ is a project of some teachers of Stedelijk Centrum…

  • 2012-2013

    Museum to scale

    Museum to scale features more of hundred exhibition rooms at a scale of 1/7. The exhibition gives an overview of…

  • 2011-2012

    cc Hasselt

    Cultuurcentrum Hasselt Belgium celibrates 40 year in 2012 and commissioned Karin Borghouts to photograph activities and architecture in the building…

  • 2011

    MAS citymuseum Antwerp

    MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp (BE) asked Karin Borghouts to make six new city portraits for the box ‘Antwerp…

  • 2010-2012

    Middelheimmuseum

    The Middelheim Museum is a unique sculptures and monumental art park near the Antwerp town edge (BE). Karin Borghouts photographed…

  • 2007

    Zoo beeldig

    A commissioned assignment of Erfgoedcel Antwerpen in collaboration with KMDA (The Antwerp Royal Society for Zoology), 2007. The book Zoo…

  • 2006-2007

    Verbeeld verleden

    ‘Portrayed Past’ was one of the two last exhibitions in the Volkskundemuseum (Museum of Regional Ethnology) Antwerp before the museum…

  • 2006

    Living

    Karin Borghouts has photographed the living rooms of families from different ethnic backgrounds living in Brussels. ‘Living’ offers the visitor…

  • 2005

    Saga Japan

    Karin Borghouts was invited to photograph in Japan in December 2005 at the invitation of the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee,…