Martine Df

architect MartineDF is a creator and visionary.

Martine strongly believes Art with a heart and soul is an instrument for an ambitious and infinite quest in finding ways to unfold, to reveal, and discover a little glimpse into life, the ‘real world’.

It’s a tool for scratching the surface, and peeling off layers to find the ‘absolute truth’, bit by bit. Art piece by art piece.

About 85% of the works that is shown here on SaatchiArt is done in hospital. As a result of her most intensive soul-searching periods, this, during her Saturn Return phase and the 7 year loop to close that cycle.

Martine’s work revolves around truth-seeking. Her imaginative and inquisitive mind is layered with existentialism and perception.
She is fascinated by sensory and cognitive perception, and how we perceive the visible and invisible world around us. The way we perceive is processed by the sensory input and by what we know, both resulting in how we interpret or believe is truth. She challenges these two processes through imagination and curiosity with the language of her background in the Arts and Science. Reality becomes somewhat transformed and distorted. Her visual work is characterised by a style that is colourful and vibrant, balanced by the gr...

2017-2019: CVO VOLT, Leuven (BE): Diploma in Photography
1997-2002 Campus Sint-Lucas Brussel (KU Leuven) (BE): Masters of Architecture

Exhibition | Solo
2018/2019 ‘Distortion | photographic stories’; Exporuimte Tweebronnen, Leuven (BE)
2011 ‘Lines of Wisdom’ and ‘Bark Shapes’; Rucker’s Hill café; Northcote, Melbourne (AU)

Exhibition | Group
2024 Carte Blanche; SLAC, Leuven (BE)
2023 paintings, collages, installations and graphic design; exhibition: Process, Dirk Bouts, OPENdeur; SLAC, Leuven (BE)
2022 paintings, films and photograph; exhibition: Process, Ensemble, OPENdeur; SLAC, Leuven (BE)
2021 shortfilm for the installation at ]SLAC vitrine, in context of KNAL! festival; Leuven (BE)
2021 online IG drawing challenge in October 2021 #aPaperaDay21, A Paper / A Day, Kunstwerkt (BE)
2021 paintings; exhibition: Oogst; SLAC, Leuven (BE)
2020/2021 paintings and mixed media; exhibition: Ecology after/beyond; SLAC / Academie Beeldende & Audiovisuele Kunst, Leuven (BE)
2019/2020 installation, film and photographs; paintings and sculpture; exhibitions: Oogst, Wanneer je het aanduidt is het weg, Proces; SLAC / Academie Beeldende & Audiovisuele Kunst, Leuven (BE)
2019 portfolio ‘Metatron’s cube’ – installation of photographs, sculptures and drawing; exhibitions: Buitenbeeld, Toonmoment Fotografie; CVO VOLT, Leuven (BE)
2018/2019 installation, film and photographs; paintin...