To mark the 75th anniversary of the Belgian nuclear research centre SCK CEN in 2027, I was granted exceptional access to the site in Mol. Over the past two years, I captured its buildings, researchers, and fascinating moments. Assisted by photographer Wouter Bollaerts, I explored this extraordinary, and a for many hidden world.

The result is not an encyclopedic overview of a research centre, but rather a personal photographic journey of discovery. These images will be presented in a photo book and an exhibition of this work.

The photo book will be published in April 2027 by SCK CENand Pelckmans. The exhibition opens on 9 April 2027 at Tabloo, the visitor centre in Dessel, Belgium. More details to follow!

In the 19th century, Genk — at that time still spelled Genck — was a vast Campine (Kempisch) farming village in Belgium. Several hamlets, scattered amidst wide-open landscapes, soggy marshlands, countless reflective ponds and expansive heathlands, were surrounding the small village centre.

Between 1840 and 1940, hundreds of landscape painters visited this Campine village. They transformed Genk into an artists' village par excellence. Consequently, in 2016, Genk was admitted into euroArt, the European network of historic artists' colonies.

The unique history of Genk as an artists' haven stands central into the mission of the Emile Van Dorenmuseum. Alongside the life and work of Emile Van Doren, the museum researches, collects, preserves, and presents the connection between visual artists and the Genk landscape, spanning the period from 1840 to 1940 ànd today...

It is in this context that I was invited as an artist-in-residence at the Emile Van Dorenmuseum. The coming year, I will regularly stay and work there. Through my photography, I examine how the contemporary landscape relates to the past, and how photography and painting can converge.

An exhibition featuring paintings from the 1840–1920 period is on display until 17 January 2027 at both the Emile Van Dorenmuseum in Genk and the Jakob Smitsmuseum in Mol. The artists' colonies of Genk, Kalmthout, Mol, and Wechelderzande are represented.

The Van GoghHuis Zundert is delighted to announce the recent acquisition of a rare example of Vincent’s ceramic painter's models. It concerns a nineteenth-century English pitcher in Japonisme style, 24 cm high, which was recently discovered in Canada by art historian Alexandra van Dongen. The purchase was made possible by the Vincent van GoghHuis Art Fund.
I was commissioned to reconstruct and photograph a still life featuring this jug.

In her book Dichter bij Vincent. Alledaagse voorwerpen in het werk van Vincent van Gogh. (Closer to Vincent: Everyday Utensils in the Work of Vincent van Gogh) 2022, art historian and curator of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Alexandra van Dongen wrote about the painter's models used by Zundert's world-famous artist.
 

Alexandra van Dongen will give a lecture at the Van GoghHuis on Thursday, 29 October at 8 p.m. about this English jug by Vincent van Gogh and other tangible objects in his paintings. This will be followed by a guided tour of the new exhibition 'The Many Faces of Van Gogh'. The pitcher will be on display, and my framed photograph can be viewed in the shop. This print is available as a limited and signed edition with a certificate of authenticity.

The exhibition 'The Many Faces of Vincent' runs from 1 November 2026 to 3 March 2028.