Nel Verbeke (Brussels) is a concept designer / artist dedicated to the emotional potential of design.
Departing from an in-depth research, in which she looks back as well as ahead and critically reflects on the current zeitgeist, she arrives at situations and objects that both question and transform our relationship to ourselves and to what surrounds us. She materialises her concepts with refined and timeless creations that should be understood as proto-instruments: thoughtful and delicate tools that provoke dedicated acts and, as such, represent proposals for future rituals. Her works remind us of the passage of time, create spaces for introspection and contemplation and invite us to stand still and embrace the emotional ambivalence of our existence rather than to resist it.
Within her practice, Nel Verbeke collaborates with other designers and slow crafters. She considers the processes of creation as moments where tradition and innovation meet and become part of meaningful designs, responding to the needs and urgencies of our contemporary (co-)existence.
Nel Verbeke shows her work in collaboration with Dutch Invertuals, BRUT collective and as a participant of group exhibitions.
Nel Verbeke studied Concept Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (NL), following an education in Fine Arts at Luca School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium.
GALLERIES
Represented by Emma Scully Gallery (US), Studio Oliver Gustav (DK), Objet D’art (JPN), Tools Gallery (FR), Artecetera (BE)
