17/03/2026
Marijke De C**k: “Since early childhood I’ve been obsessed by the small, the details. Working first in embroidery, and later in jewellery, taught me that something grand can be built from a single, ordinary component.”
Marijke calls her process “painting with beads.” Thousands of glass beads, each one placed, strung, or hammered by hand, compose a single surface. It’s analogue, slow, and rooted in a craft that goes back centuries. After more than fifteen years designing for Dries Van Noten, specialising in jewellery and embroidery, couture is her daily language. Her own practice takes that language and untethers it from the body, scaling beadwork into autonomous objects.
Alongside her signature wall sculptures, De C**k presents martini tables, standing and hanging sculptures, her most three-dimensional and structural body of work to date, designed to carry weight. Developed together with her husband, architect Rodriguez Debal, the beads themselves have been enlarged through a collaboration with a local glassblower, clustering so densely they appear to sometimes overtake the oak structures beneath.
Feat.
Marijke De C**k
Works Various, 2026
Glass, resin and metal beads hand embroidered, handmade glass elements, mounted on polished aluminium or and oak.
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Cover, slide 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10©️Kate Devine
Slide 4, 5 ©️Eline Willaert
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Exhibition: Meet Me in the Middle
On view: 06.03 — 18.04.26
By appointment: ST VINCENTS — Kleine Markt 13, Antwerp
Featuring: Anne Büscher, Madeline Coven, Marijke De C**k, Kimy Gringoire, Hannah Kuhlmann x Lisa Scherebnenko, Marte Mei, Emily Thurman
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