Fraukje Engels (1984) is a visual and audiovisual artist.
Driven by drawing – specifically with charcoal -, sculpting and music, Fraukje completes a musical training (9 years), a bachelor’s/master’s program in visual arts (5 years) and a postgraduate degree in audiovisual arts (2 years).
After 4 years of artistic guidance by Ingrid Ledent, Fred Bervoets, Edwin Carels and Anouk De Clercq she continues to dedicate her attention to the artistic development of audiovisual work.
With the work TRAJECT, giving the viewer the illusion of freedom within her artistic universe, she won the Horlait-Dapsens Award.
By focusing on the study of audio and visual artistic creation,
by exhibiting and performing for a crowd,
by discussing with artists and co-workers in the artistic field
Fraukje is supported by a broad discourse from which she distills her own works.
Her works and projects have been shown in, among others; Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Mexico and China. Several works reside in museum and private collections. For example, 15 works were purchased by Guanlan Biennial, China.
Curriculum
2015 – 2025 Annual art residencies and exhibition, International Art – present Centre Kråkeslottet Senja / Tåkeslottet, Sagstua – Oslo, Norway,
2020 – 2025 FUTURPLAN(te)S, Hol/Vide, Rec0rdeR and BRAMENJAM – present ‘Artiste Invitée’, annual, 1st and 2nd bachelor, ENSAV La Cambre,
‘Artiste Invité 2022’ in collaboration with Benjamin Verdonck.
2020 -2021 Assistent, ENSAV La Cambre,
Bruxelles, Relief print.
2020 – 2021 Overseas season, Relief print, University Shenzhen China, Guest lecturer, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
2017 – 2018 Overseas season, Relief print, University Shenzhen China, Guest lecturer, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
2020 – 2023 Composition classes taught by Hans Cornelis and Noah Senden.
2020 – 2023 Ensemble classes taught by Marc Van Royen.
2016 – 2023 Cello taught by Hadewijch Devillé and Peter Devos, First higher degree.
2016 Diploma Equivalent Master of Arts Pedagogy, high distinction, Antwerp, 29 June 2016.
2014 – present Creative Director for Wood to Play: guiding, designing and sculpting of in situ playground projects.
2013 Birth of Fernanda Devillé
2011 Birth of Mona Devillé
2008 – 2010; KASK Gent
MASTERS DEGREE IN AUDIOVISUAL ARTS.
Cum laude
Promoters: Edwin Carels and Anouk De Clercq
2007 – 2008: Journey through Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. 13 months.
2007 Winner of the Horlait-Dapsens Award with 25 wooden panels with suggestion lithographs.
2005 – 2007: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
MASTERS DEGREE IN FINE ARTS Magna cum laude
Promoter: Ingrid Ledent
2002 – 2005: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
BACHELORS DEGREE IN FINE ARTS
Teachers: Fred Bervoets, Pat Harris and Bruno Van Dijck
1993 – 2002 : Higher degree musical education.
1999 – 2002 : Model drawing.
1996 – 2002 : General secondary education
Exhibitions and projects
now
Irishoeve Kapellen is a protected nature park and arts platform. Roosbeef, Charlotte Koopman, Bei Wen Tan, Joachim Badenhorst, Bart Van Dijck, John Birdsong, Tom Pintens, Gerhard Herman, Compagnie Frieda, Esther Lambrechts, Ben Iriks, Mauro Pawlowski, Jan Jan Van Essche, Johanna Van Overmeire and many others performed in Irishoeve. I co-founded and co-manage Irishoeve and Irishoeve vzw (together with Samuel Verdonck, Nikè Moens, Kirsten Pieters, Wannes Cré, Valentine Kempynck and Benjamin Verdonck). 1 June 2016 to now.
The Fredriksen Commission: Not. Exhibition in collaboration with Kypros, Georg Blichfeldt on art, cargo and capitalism, charcoal on panel, ArtiJuli, Int. Arts Center Kråkeslottet, Bøvær, Norway, July 1-31, 2021.
Next stop horizon, hugh drawing on wooden panel, owned by arts centre Kråkeslottet, in space: The tower, Senja, Norway, from winter 2020.
Art residency with family and Pål Moddi, at Georg Blichfeldt, Kråkeslottet; Bøvær; Senja; Norway, 2 January to10 February 2022.
Art residency around charcoal drawings at Georg Blichfeldt, Sagstua by Oslo, Norway, 11 December 2024 to 2 January 2025.
The Fredriksen Commission: Not. Exhibition in collaboration with Kypros, Georg Blichfeldt on art, cargo and capitalism, charcoal on panel, Int. Arts Center Artijuli, Sagstua by Oslo, Norway, july, 2024.
JordsmonnGrond, Performance: Printing my body with the new clay, Sagstua by Oslo, Norway, 18 August 2024.
Concertpicknick, music composition, organisation and performance with Wietse Beels and Hibernia primary school, Antwerp, Irishoeve, 2 July 2024.
Concert with Sere, composition I derived from an image, composed and performed by and for violin and cello, via Anne Van Laar and Peter Devos, Godinne. 2 August 2023.
Choir with and by Joachim Badenhorst and Indre Jurgeleviciute, Borgerhout, 28 October 2023.
Winter Jam by, with and at Hans Beckers, Beaver. 9 December 2023.
Concert with Sere, composition I derived from an image, composed and performed by and for cello, via Anne Van Laar and Peter Devos, Maredsous, August 21 to August 26, 2021.
Billboards Antwerpen op affiche in Antwerpen in combinatie met performance, Haven van Antwerpen, FE, Pointpointpopionit. Rond rondes en tijd.
Domein Fontein, Walk in the Park met expositie houtskooltekeningen in het houtatelier.
Zeilenexpositie op de gazon, zie Google maps, Irishoeve.
Herstel, random herstel, performance met Esther Lambrechts en Hans Beckers met uitgehouwen, gebrande logboat, met drijvend zeilwerk van 14 op 3,5 meter.
Perforeren boomhut Benjamin Verdonck, Irishoeve. Link met compositie.
Perfomance met Benjamin Verdonck; Gigi en cello improvisatie. ENSAV La Cambre.
Art residency Kapellen. Organisatie van kunstenresidenties gekoppeld aan kunsten- en theaterfestival. Samenwerking onder Irishoeve vzw met Benjamin Verdonck en Wannes Cré, Domein Irishoeve, Kapellen. 2021.
Mona en de kinderen, Een kind: een houten sculptuur van 3m70 hoog en 8m10 lang ontspant zich in het gras. Bezoekers kunnen in haar kruipen en doorheen haar ogen kijken. Deuzeldlaan Schoten. 23 septembre 2019.
‘Mona en de kinderen’, houten sculptuur van 8m lang en 3m hoog, Dennenhof, Schilde, uitvoering met Wood to Play.
Duifsculptuur in Gent, De Teunisbloem via Wood to Play.
Onboards Antwerpen met composite in beeld Sere. Opname op cello door Peter Devos.
Academie Antwerpen Overseas season, 2 jaren?, studenten van Shenzhen art university.
Performance met mijn moeder over het vacuum in degeneratie, stagnatie en regeneratie. Dit gerelateerd aan vrouwelijkheid en macht, kwetsbaarheid en indringen. Klank: Tomas De Smet en Harald Bauweraerts. Performance met Mieke Lecleir, Valentine Kempynck, Jorunn Bauweraerts, Nikè Moens en 10 kinderen. Expo, HET BOS, Antwerpen, 4 november 2018. <Horisontalen, performance in het Bos, Antwerpen, rond het vervilten van mijn moeder met vrouwen en kinderen ter voorbereiding van expositie Horisontalen in Noorwegen. Grafische partituur gestuurd via boren met muziek door Thomas De Smet en Harald Bauweraerts.
\_/ Performance around my mother, felting and the vacuum into degeneration, stagnation and regeneration. This related to the feminine and power, fragility and penetration. Sound by Tomas De Smet and Harald Bauweraerts, Performance with Mieke Lecleir, Valentine Kempynck, Jorunn Bauweraerts, Nikè Moens and ten children. Expo, HET BOS, Antwerp, November 4, 2018.
Art Residency Kråkeslottet, during six weeks to prepare for the summer exhibition; Imagesounds, residency together with Maja Daniels, Juan Pablo De Lucca and Louis Jucker, for Bryggeloftet, Artijuli International Arts Festival, Bøvær, Norway, December 13, 2018 – January 23, 2019.
Someday fish will fly, Performance together with Johanna Van Overmeir. Sound with Lac De Laet and Sam Van Camp, Open Studio’s 2018, Antwerp, September 2, 2018.
Performance Belgian home and garden, projection on snowhills, Bøvær, Norway, Januari 20, 2019.
I presented the work Herstal in witch pictures from the pre-Arabic Spring period were shown. This from several middle-east countries (Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Libanon and Turkey). So a perforated image that is turned into sound by a small musicbox and 4 books were laying on a standing desk. The work searches for the recovering(reparation) of images. Boothuis Brauhaus, SAS 10, Herentals, 11 mei 2019 – 26 mei 2019.
Exhibition Muziekbom/Ballistic music about the perception of reality, Traces, ghostimages and in-betweens, Group exhibition with vzw The Pop Singers Breasts Were Not Real, Valentine Kempynck, Johanna Van Overmeir, Serge A. A. A. Proth, vzw Untitled and vzw Yellow Art , Boothuis Brauhaus, SAS 10, Herentals, May 11, 2019 – May 26, 2019.
Performance Pre-Imagesounds with Harald Bauweraerts, Finissage, Traces, ghostimages and in-betweens, Group exhibition, Boothuis Brauhaus, SAS 10, Herentals, May 26, 2019.
Irishoeve, Artists collaboration and co-working domain in Kapellen, co-founded with Jasper Devillé, Wannes Cré, Kirsten Pieters, Valentine Kempynck, Benjamin Verdonck, Nikè Moens and Samuel Verdonck. Irishoeve vzw is founded by Wannes Cré, Benjamin Verdonck, Samuel Verdonck and me, It emerges from De Vanger vzw, Deurne, March 7, 2017, Kapellen, June 6, 2016.
😉 Dennis Tyfus asks for my horse with cart in exchange for an exhibition space within his exhibition, Antwerp – Kapellen, September 17, 2016.
Richard, perforated drawing with live soundscapes by Harald Bauweraerts on hurdy-gurdy, Masters Printmaking Komask, Winter Garden, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, April 24 – May 6, 2018.
Performance Entropie: destruction, stagnation, rebirth: perforating and playing by means of a music box with an image from Aleppo, Syria, Het Bos, Antwerp, November 23, 2017.
Ballistics, Video in collaboration with composer Juan Pablo De Lucca and Leif Magne Tangen, Senja, Norway and Kapellen, Belgium,
January 12, 2019 – January 30, 2019.
Heisen Dybde; Jasper in sail, Permanently exhibited, Charcoal on two wooden panels into the space; Heisen, Int. Arts Center Kråkeslottet, Bøvær, Norway, from December 23, 2019.
Currently moved to Tåkeslottet Sagstua, near Oslo, from date
Horisontalen, permanently presented triptych of 6m by means of perforations and charcoal into the space; Horisonten. Because of the perforations, the northern light plays through, Int. Arts Center Kråkeslottet, Norway, Purchased by ArtiJuli on 10 January 2019.
Imagesounds Reworking the Machine, Video performance with composer and pianist Juan Pablo De Lucca. Video: Jonathan Bjerstedt, ArtiJuli International Art Festival 2019, Bøvær, Norway, July 13 – July 20, 2019.
Opening performance of Imagesounds with pianist Eirik Vildgren, ArtiJuli, Int. Arts Center Kråkeslottet, Bøvær, Norway. June 30, 2019.
Imagesounds, Exhibition about algorithms, structures and randomisation built by three diptychs of charcoal drawings on wooden panels. A built-in cello transforms an image into sound via perforations and the analoge play mechanism. in Bryggeloftet and Horisonten, Int. Arts Center Kråkeslottet, Bøvær, Norway, July 1-31, 2019.
Performance Imagesounds: Reworking the machine, Framed by ‘Imagesounds exhibition’. During the performance, the musician converses with the machine. Int. Arts Center Kråkeslottet, Bøvær, Norway, July 13, 2019.
Vanitas und Mimosa, performance movie, coördination: Johanna Van Overmeir, audiovisuals: Vertigo, cello: Benjamin Glorieux, performance: Fraukje Engels, Niort, France.
Screenshake, independent art game festival, curator: design and realisation of the art space: hugh wooden concentric circles, Het Bos, Antwerp, January 6th, 2015 – January 8th, 2015
Screenshake, independent art game festival, curator: design and realisation of the art space: different wooden shapes with oiled paper and light, Het Bos, Antwerp, 19th, 2016 – February 21st, 2016
Pixelmuur: design and realisation of wooden drawing installation, Free to Play, Design centre, Antwerp, May 17th 2014 – June 15th 2014
Stagnation, Interactive installation with webcams for an animated wooden jackal with two projectors and the choice between gold and the disruptive video montage with soundscapes, Masters, Exhibition Kask Gent, De Bijloke.
ZoneZona two interactive sound imaging installations in consultation with Serge Verstockt, ChampdAction, De Singel, Antwerpen, Academiestraat, KASK, Ghent, 2009.
Trajectory, 25 wooden panels with suggestion drawings, Fifth International Print Biennial, Guanlan, China, mei 2015.
Egyptian Space Shuttle: suggestion drawings on photo, Passionate Files: MOEDERboek: Happy Birthday Dear Academie, Wintertuin, Royal Academy of Antwerp, May 20th, 2014 – May 28th, 2014
Pixelmuur, design and realisation of wooden drawing installation, International Film Festival Rotterdam, via Edwin Carels, Rotterdam City Theatre, January 21st, 2014 – February 1st, 2014.
Kumesa intercultural city and art project, Bijenkorf, Antwerp, October 5th, 2013.
#167 birthworks in #167 rooms, birthworks are 167 pictures with drawings, silk, wool and perforations to 167 friends and family, from June 29th, 2013
Ladder, Permanent large wooden sculpture above the entrance door of the concert space, Het Bos, Antwerp, from January 9th, 2015.
Kunsten noord; Open noord, Fabriek Noord, intercultural project with geometric wooden installation and projection, Antwerp, June 16th, 2013
Kumesa intercultural city and art project, Kievitsnest, Antwerp, May 18th, 2013 – May 19th, 2013
Lebanese woman walking down the hill, performance, aula Pand, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp October 22nd, 2012.
Shenzhen expects you, Overseas season, curation of an exhibition for bachelor students from China, Wintertuin, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, November 2017.
Shenzhen expects you 2, Overseas season, curation of an exhibition for bachelor students from China, in collaboration with Peter Bosteels, Temple, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, February 2018.
Shenzhen expects you 3, Overseas season, curation of an exhibition for bachelor students from China, in collaboration with Lieselotte Van Daele, Courtyard, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 4 May 2018.
Shenzhen expects you 4, Overseas season, curation of an exhibition for bachelor students from China, In collaboration with Valentine Kempynck; Courtyard, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 27 June 2018.
Perforation Syria, Aleppo, Performance, Dieperik auditorium, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, April 2014.
Wine wench and trajectory, Expositie, Lithographic printmaking, via Ingrid Ledent, Talinn, 2010.
Trajectory, Exhibition, Lithographic Conference, via Ingrid Ledent, Stockholm, 2011.
Trajectory, Tamarind Gallery, Exhibition via Ingrid Ledent, Tamarind institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2012.
II European Lithography Days, printmaking beyond the borders, Grafphic Arts Belgium, Kunstpavillon: wooden panels with suggestion drawings, München, Germany. August 28th. – September 2nd, 2012.
II European Lithography Days, printmaking beyond the borders, Graphic art fair:Trajectory, Kunstlerhaus, München, September 1st, – September 2nd, 2012.
Artisjok: drawings, Design centre De Winkelhaak, Antwerp, August 31st, 2012 – September 7th, 2012.
Lithographic art studio work, residency, Studio Ingrid Ledent, Ekeren, July 24th, 2012 – September 24th, 2012.
Lithographic art studio work, residency, Studio Ingrid Ledent, Ekeren. July 6th, 2011 – September 6th, 2011.
Lithographic art studio work, residency, Studio Ingrid Ledent, Ekeren. July 6th, 2010 – September 25th, 2010.
Embrasse, Visuals with charcoal about prostitution for Leen Braspenning, theater production, 2010 and 2011.
Fin, animated short film, film festival, Kapellen, 2007 en 2011
Sixth International Lithographic Symposium: Trajectory, Tidaholm, Zweden, July 25th, 2010 – August 8th, 2010.
Komask portret, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp (KMSK), laureate, July 9th, 2010 – July 17th, 2010.
KASKweek masterproject: Image sound installation, promoters Edwin Carels and Anouk De Clercq, Bijloke, Ghent, June 2010.
Grafiek+, Trajectory, Heilig Graf, Turnhout, February 6th 2009 – February 22nd, 2009.
Out of Control: Trajectory, exhibition of 25 wooden panels with suggestion drawings, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2008.
Made in Antwerp: exposition 3 drawings, Tallinn, Estland, 2008.
Trajectory, Kunst aan Huis: exhibition 10 wooden panels with suggestion drawings, The Hague, the Netherlands, 2008.
Trajectory, Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen, publication 317, September 2007.
Laureate Horlait-Dapense prize, 2007.
Selected Masters: exhibition of 25 wooden panels with suggestion drawings and sound image projection, hall, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 2007.
Graduation Projects: exhibition of 25 wooden panels with suggestion drawings and sound image projection, printmaking, Spanjaardsteeg, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, via Ingrid Ledent, 2007.
End-of-year exhibition, Fine Arts, Borgerhout via Sig Beunen, June 2007.
Trajectory suggestion, lithographs on C-prints, residency, Frans Masereel Centre, November 2006.
Inside the van, Via panam today: Travelling exhibition at the rate of marathons from Alaska to Ushuaia, 1 june 2016 – 31 March 2018.
Stage, Art education and exhibition with children of detainees, Antwerp prison, April and May 2005.
Model drawings, Komask L. Theo van Looij, Wintertuin the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, laureate, 2004.
Flying the arrow, exhibition: First connection of the day, photographs, compositions and drawings, via Jan Crab, Wintertuin the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Mai 2004.
Costume as Spatial Object: installation on destruction and decay: pigeons ate the sculpture, via Nina Onzia, Loft office, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, June 2006.
Quest, shards exhibition in the basement of the Venusstraat building, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, June 2005.
Try Out, Art and music festival Antwerp, organisation and exposition, spring 2006.
Try Out, Art and music festival Antwerp, organisation, spring 2005.
Try Out, Art and music festival Ghent, organisation, winter 2004.