About
Hilde Windels works with flax as both medium and language. From line, fibre and plane, sculptural forms emerge in which the organic and the architectural meet.
The material becomes a means of exploring form, structure and space, on the threshold between the recognisable and the abstract.
- Medium
- Flax
- Born
- 1968, Tielt
- Based in
- Ghent, Belgium
- Active
- 1990 to present
Education
- 1996–98 Master of Fine Arts, Textile Design. Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Brussels
- 1992–94 Teacher training. Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten Sint-Lucas, Ghent
- 1986–90 Applied Arts, Monumental Art and Textiles. Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten Sint-Lucas, Ghent
Teaching
- Teacher of Textile Art, part-time arts education. Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Mol
- Teacher of Textile Art, part-time arts education. Stedelijke Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Harelbeke
Awards and selections
- 1996 Provincial Prize for Visual Arts, non-reproducible art forms, Bruges
- 1991·99 Stimulans, Kortrijk
- 1991 Provincial Prize for Crafts and Industrial Design, Textiles, Bruges
Solo exhibitions
- 2021 Huis Perrekes, Architecture Day, Oosterlo
- 2019 Huis Perrekes, Architecture Day, Oosterlo
- 2013 VLAK, De Molen, Zwevegem. With Kunstwerkplaats De Zandberg, Harelbeke
- 2006 Public Library, Harelbeke
- 2000 Stedelijk Museum Het Begijnhof, Hoogstraten
Group exhibitions
- 2026 De Magazijniers, De Weverij, Evergem
- 2025 Subtiel Textiel, De Weverij, Evergem
- 2025 Flax DNA, Provinciaal Huis, Bruges
- 2011 Transfo, Zwevegem
- 2005 Textile Biennial MeTissages, Industriemuseum, Ghent
- 2003 Galerij Indigo, Damme
- 2000 Gynaika-project, Tielt
- 1996·97 André Demedtshuis, Sint-Baafs-Vijve
- 1996 Kasteel d’Aertrijcke, Torhout
- 1996 Gynaika-project, Harelbeke
- 1992·93 Villa Eksternest, Rumbeke
Applied work, OHA
- 2025 Flax DNA, Provinciaal Huis, Bruges
- 2024 Brussels Makers Market, La Gare Maritime, Brussels
- 2024 Kunstakker, OCO, Oostakker
Collections
- 2005 Inner Circle. Industriemuseum, Ghent. Public collection
- 2019 The Light Revealed. Huis Perrekes, Oosterlo. Private collection