Nina-Joy Thielemans

Bio

Nina-Joy Thielemans (1997) shapes her artistic practice through sculpture, scenography and sound to give tangible form or structure to impressions, thoughts and ways of being. Departing from questions around ecological awareness, pollution and our relation with everyday objects, she collaborates with carefully chosen environments and materials through which observation and interaction can create insights, lived experiences, and works. Her visual language focuses on (the illusion of) timeless, monumental or eternal forms, whereas her sound works function as improvised scores.

Education and residencies

BA , sculpture and mixed-media, Luca school of arts Ghent, 2020

Summer school on Water, Relationality and Ethics, University of Antwerp, ES, 2025

Residence, Lizières, Épaux-Bézu, FR, 2022

After summer school, Campo, Ghent, BE, 2020

Group shows and Duo shows

2025

Group exhibition, Genèse d’un repas, Lichtekooi Antwerp, BE.

2023

Vroege vogel feest, VillaDelfia, Antwerp, BE,

Something about a double-edged sword, MORPHO, Antwerp, BE

2022

Resonance, CASSTL, Antwerp, BE

Happening II, le 777 official, Antwerp, BE

2021

a drawing: a secret, Projektraum 145, Berlin, DE

Maybe its finished, Arttelex, Antwerp, BE

Tarot editions, 019, Ghent, BE

2020

Lemme, Medusa, Brussels, BE

2019

Biennale van België III, Floraliënhal, Ghent, BE

Pastiche, BLANCO, Ghent, BE

KONVOOI kunstenfestival, Bruges, BE

FABRIK festival, Leuven, BE

2017

Jeans om te zien, Kop vzw, Antwerp, BE

Sound shows, performances and lectures

Collective attuning exercise, UA, Antwerpen, BE, 2025

Fishing for sound, Archipel, Antwerpen, BE, 2025

Particals album release, De Nor, Antwerp, BE 2025

Het begin van het einde, Onderstroom, Antwerp, BE 2023

Shots at luca school of arts, Ghent, BE, 2019

European Media Art Festival No.32, Osnabrück, DE, 2019

Index: work titles and background info

Manuport

2025 - 2026
A series of sculptures and photographic works emerging
through dialogue with the Schelde, where Margueriedok
forms its living foundation.
©Fabien Silvestre Suzor

Baking of the Manuport works in a pitfire, 2025

Manuport is a series of sculptures and photographic works emerging through dialogue with the Schelde, where Margueriedok forms its living foundation. The series borrows an archaeological term for unworked objects, stones, shells, or pieces of wood, that early humans collected for their aesthetic, symbolic, or suggestive resemblance to familiar forms. From an affinity with this early, sensory aesthetic, the works emerge from direct experiences of the dock, learning from its behavior: tides, found objects, sounds, Nereis, flora, and slib interpreted as the language of the site. By attuning to the site's cycles, processes, and pollution, forms are created that are intimately tied to the here and now, Antwerp, and life along the river.

Collecting wild clay or slib from the Margueriedok, 2025.

The tone of form: Ikebana

2025
A design with stones, metal pins and flowers, accompanied by an instructional poem.

Elif Özbay: Something About a Double Edged Sword

Elif Özbay: Something About a Double Edged Sword

01.07.2023
Scenography and sculptural collaboration between Elif Satanaya Özbay and Nina-Joy Thielemans.
Creating sculptures and curating design objects.
Performed at : MORPHO
© Tomasz Skibicki

The heat of the memory keeps the moment alive

2019
Wooden construction, plaster, insulation wool.
Creating a space for reliving a memory.
210 x 100 x 93 cm
© Lotta Kestens

Visual research leading to The heat of the memory keeps the moment alive.

Particals: LP Garzweiler

2024 - 25
Sonic and visual exploration of the Garzweiler site in Germany, with Justine grillet and
Karina Zharmukhambetova.
https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/album/garzweiler

Works and studies from the same period as lamppost

ninajoythielemans1@gmail.com