Axelle Lenaerts (°1995, BE) is a visual artist and filmmaker who explores the world poetically. Translating emotions and stories into images, the artist combines alternating and mixing, the media, film, photography, drawings, and text.
In 2019, Axelle Lenaerts graduated from her Master’s in Fine Arts (Media art) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. During her studies, she took additional courses in photography, cinematography, and bookbinding. Since graduating, Axelle Lenaerts has been working on a mid-length documentary called Do You Hear the Wind in the Pine Trees?, which should be finalised in early 2024. Currently, Axelle Lenaerts is pursuing a postgraduate program at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) 2022–2023 in Brussels (BE).
The artist has been a resident at Frans Masereel Centrum (BE), and at Nishiaizu International Art Village (JP). Her work has been exhibited at /THE PLATFORM (Antwerp, BE), Pilar (Brussels, BE), Cinema Urbana (Antwerp, BE) and MAP (Ghent, BE), amongst others. In 2019, her short film Okeri won the Horlait-Dapsens Foundation prize and obtained an honourable mention from VAF wildcards for documentary. In May 2023, her first solo exhibition Say Yes to Heaven, Say Yes to Me was held in Antwerp’s /THE PLATFORM gallery.
