Personal work
2023-2025
Routes
During her exploration of KU Leuven, Borghouts'eye was particularly caught by corridors, stairs, and doors. Prior to the exhibition Routes…
2024
Au Borinage
The Borinage, South-West of Mons in Belgium, was one of the most inspiring regions that Karin Borghouts visited as part…
2020-2027
Homescapes
This photographic project started in the spring of 2020, the year of the corona. For this photographic project Karin Borghouts…
2011-2021
Paris Impasse
Paris has about 600 cul de sacs, cités, villas and squares: streets that end in a dead end. Cul-de-sacs. Within…
2017-2022
A Painter's House
After his death, the house of the painter Marten Melsen (1870-1947) was inhabited by his unmarried daughters and son. The…
2012
The House - Het huis
A fire destroys the family home of photographer Karin Borghouts. The event causes a shock and a wake of all…
2019
Vincent Was Here
After photographing the Van Gogh reproduction in her parents' burnt-out house, Karin Borghouts became aware of her youthful memories of…
2020-2021
De laatste reis / The Final Journey
The home, the place where we can safely retreat. It is also the place where our identity becomes visible. Interiors…
2009-2019
Interludium
Interludium (Interlude) is a visual research into exhibition spaces and museums. Can we see the museum as a metaphor for…
2012-2014
Construction sites
Karin Borghouts was selected as a city photographer of Antwerp, Belgium from March 2012 until March 2014, an inititative of…
2009-2017
Reliquiae
Karin Borghouts photographed animal models, replicas, casts and specimens from different university collections. Borghouts was struck by the formal beauty…
2008-2019
L'esprit de l'espace
Karin Borghouts is fascinated by places. Her keen, analytical eye allows her to touch the sensitivities in the environment, interiors…
2005
Saga - Japan
Karin Borghouts was invited to photograph in Japan in December 2005 at the invitation of the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee,…
2002-2011
Rooilijn
Rooilijn: Dutch for the boundary line between private space and the public road. Karin Borghouts photographs places in our urbanised…
2001-2009
The Show
A picture of an exhibition room with empty showcases. The exhibited objects are gone and this gives the picture a…
2001-2005
Through the Looking Glass
Karin Borghouts’ photos portray things that touch both the real and the imaginary. Reality is not a given but in…
2001
Large household waste
One of the starting series of Karin borghouts. Large household waste waiting to be collected formed the subject of this…