Studied Art History and Archeology, University Gent, and Social and Cultural Anthropology, University Leuven.

Specialized in Textile Restoration, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) Brussels.

Wrote doctoral thesis: Tapestry in Belgium after 1945, University Brussels.

Worked as a textile conservator in Chicago, Washington, New York, the city of Oudenaarde, and the Ethnographic Museum and Historical Museums of Antwerp.

Taught for the Textile Institute for Crafts Antwerp (TIKA), Academy of Visual Arts Anderlecht, Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, University of Amsterdam.

Served as Curator of Textiles and Tapestries for the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels and at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Directed the umbrella service of Collection Policy / Preservation and Management for Museums and Heritage for the City of Antwerp. Acted as Curator of the City Hall and the historical collection Vleeshuis. Oversaw the municipal museum storage and relocation of the MAS collections (Museum aan de Stroom).

Acted as the Scientific Director of Collections at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA).

As a conservator, curator, and director, I conducted research, made exhibitions, published, gave lectures, and organized conferences.

Creating with textiles has always been important to me. Out of passion, I made abstract compositions and interior textiles with old and new fabrics, with textile samples and remnants. That is how I came to form Memory Textiles.

I am available for temporary projects and exhibitions, research, and advice regarding museums, public cultural heritage, and private collections (textiles or other), and for conservation and management and storage practice.