ANTOINE HORENBEEK

I Can’t Tell You What I Am Right Now
New Kingdom (المدينة الفاضلة)
Off The Map
Brésil, l’Aube
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Architectures & Commissions

About

Antoine Horenbeek (b.1993, BE) is a Brussels-based photographer and architect. From a young age, he has been interested in many practices in the visual arts. After studying architecture at La Cambre in Brussels, he decided to work as an architect and as a photographer.

This duality between photography and architecture allows him to treat his subjects in a more interdisciplinary and unique way. His photographs are related to architecture, town planning, social and urban issues, housing and right to the city. The projects he works on address the issue of slums and their non-recognition as part of the so-called “formal” city (Intimate Favela, 2018), the intimacy and aesthetics of popular architecture, the relations between public and private space and urbanism in Brazil (Brésil, L’Aube, 2015-2018) or even the informal architecture of the homeless and their ability to create new forms of housing (Off The Map, 2020-2022). This alternative vision of architecture and the city is reflected in all of his projects. His work is mainly documentary and political.

Since 2015, he has collaborated with architecture and urban planning offices, artist collectives, NGO's and medias. His work has been the subject of numerous publications and several exhibitions in Belgium, France, Italy and Brazil.

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Intimate Favela, Maison Stepman, Brussels (BE).

Group Exhibitions

2025 Intelligens.Natural.Artificial.Collective, Venice Biennale (IT)
2025 Diriyah Art Futures, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (IT)
2024 Postcards, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome (IT)
2023 Pink Screens Festival, Brusels (BE)
2023 Unexposed, PhotoTwens 2023, Leuven (BE)
2023 Molenwest Photo, Molenbeek (BE)
2023 Académie Constantin Meunier, Brussels (BE)
2023 Désirés, 110 Galerie X Lusted Men, Paris (FR)
2022 Mirror, Studio Baxton & B.A.G, Brussels (BE)
2022 Lusted Men, Le La Voir au Public, Lyon (FR)
2022 Lusted Men, Fey Festival, Villecien (FR)
2022 Académie Constantin Meunier, Brussels (BE)
2022 KAC, Maison Stepman, Brussels (BE)
2021 Festival System D, KVS, Brussels (BE)
2021 Urban Zoom, Halles Saint-Gery, Brussels (BE)
2021 Who owns the city?, Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)
2021 Académie Constantin Meunier, Brussels (BE)
2020 Casa Carioca, Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2020 Mexico, Heritage Days at Maison Stepman, Brussels (BE)

Collections

Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (BR).

Publications

2025    Diriyah Art Futures, Art Tribune (IT).
2025    The Light Footprint, Saudi Gazette (SA).
2025    Saudi architecture at Venice Biennale panel, Arab News (SA).
2025    Horenbeek's photographic work exhibited in Venice, WBA (BE).
2025   DAF to Host Panel and Exhibition in Venice, SABN (SA).
2024    Diriyah Art Futures, Il Giornale dell’Architettura (IT).
2024   A Riad inaugura il Diriyah Art Futures, Archiportale (IT).
2024 Diriyah Art Futures, Archdaily (CH).
2024 Il futuro ha solide radici, Promised Lands (IT).
2024   Schiattarella Associati's Digital Art Center, Designboom.
2024   Diriyah Art Futures Center, Archicasting (CA).
2024   A new art hub in Riyadh, World Architecture Community.
2024 Diriyah Art Futures, Divisare (IT).
2024 Il primo hub del contemporaneo, Archilovers (IT).
2024   Diriyah Art Futures Contemporary Art Hub, Milimet Design.
2024 The Gulf’s first contemporary art hub, Åvontuura (CA).
2024 Lusted Men Book, Éditions Hoëbeke (FR).
2024 Postcards, Exhibition Catalog, LoosenArt (IT).
2023 A Kingdom on the Verge, Issue n°6, Handbali Magazine (ES).
2023    States, Issue n°3, Noia Magazine (UK/IT).
2023 Au Coeur de Molenbeek, BVAH n°6, Urban Brussels (BE).
2022 Marges et Marginalités au Brésil, Editions de l’ULB (BE).
2022 Reassemblage, Issue n°2, Noia Magazine (UK/IT).
2022 Antoine Horenbeek Recounts Countries, C41 Magazine (IT).
2021 Casa Carioca, Museu de Arte do Rio (BR).
2020 Looking for a Favela Tour?, The Rio Times (BR).
2019    Horenbeek Captures Architecture Of The People, Ignant (D).
2019 Architettura e Fotografia, Elle Decor Italia (IT).
2019 Intimate Favela, RioOnWatch (BR).
2019 Fotógrafo Belga Retrata Vida Intima em Favelas, RDBN (BR).
2019 O Intimo das Favelas, Voz das Comunidades (BR).
2019 Brésil, l’Aube, WeAndTheColor (D)
2019 Arquitectura de las Personas, Mundo Flaneur.
2019 Brésil, l’Aube, AWorkstation (US).
2018 The Role of the Peripheries in Democracy, Periferia (BR)
2018 MTST Occupies Elite Beach in Rio, RioOnWatch (BR).
2018 Living and Working in Tokyo, ArcSharing (FR).
2018 Rediscover Rio’s Oldest Favela, RioOnWatch (BR).
2018    Museu da Maré Celebrates 12 Years, RioOnWatch (BR).
2017 Innovative City Harbour, 1010 architecture & urbanism (BE).

Grants

2025 Wallonie-Bruxelles International (BE).
2024 Impulsion, Commission communautaire française (BE).
2023 Culture Moves Europe, Goethe-Institut/European Commission (EU).
2023 Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures (BE).
2023 Secteur des Arts plastiques de la Province de Hainaut (BE).
2018 Wallonie-Bruxelles International (BE).

Workshops & lectures

2023 Molenwest, Photography Workshops, Molenbeek (BE).
2022 TYN - Talented Youth Network, Lecture, Brussels (BE).

Contact

antoine@horenbeek.be

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Wallonie-Bruxelles Architecture

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Clients & Collaborations

1010 Architecture & Urbanism
AC Plus architecture
Catalytic Communities
Molenbeek-St-Jean
D’Ici et d’Ailleurs
Etudes et Recherches Urbaines
Foyer Schaerbeekois
Homegrade.brussels
Le Logement Molenbeekois
Mediane
Olivia Gustot Architecte
Presses Universitaires Bruxelles
RioOnWatch
Schiattarella Associati
Size+
SM Educação
Studio Jonas Hejduk
Tetra Kayzer Associés
The Rio Times
Ubex
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Urban Architectes
Urban.brussels

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