artist, curatorial & editorial direction @differentclass.be
Works and lives in Ghent, Belgium
herlinderaeman@gmail.com
Herlinde Raeman (°1982, Eeklo) is an artist working primarily with analogue photography and text. Her practice approaches everyday life as a critical site of feminist reflection, exploring motherhood and relational modes of artistic production, and paying particular attention to underrepresented contexts.
Her work is embedded in sustained collaborations with people from her immediate environment, and she positions her collaborators as co-authors, developing projects shaped by time, care, mutual openness and shared responsibility. Through deliberately intimate dialogue, they develop projects that blur the boundaries between the personal and the political, the domestic and the public, positioning lived experience as both material and method.
Opus One (Breedbeeld) selected her collaborative graduation project, the mom/artist notebook, pt. I, for an exhibition at Cultuurcentrum Hasselt (BE) in 2024. In 2025, the project was selected for the Feminist Art Prize at IKOB, Eupen (BE), and received second prize. The book dummy of the same project was selected for the VAiF 2025 exhibition in Thessaloniki (GR).
Let us see you again — a collaboration with Lobna Morsi — was developed under the mentorship of photographer Vincen Beeckman as part of Breedbeeld’s Blueprints programme. Following its inaugural showing at nw in Aalst in June 2025, the latest iteration of the project was on view at Ontsteking in Ghent from June 19 to 21, 2026.
current & upcoming
Workshop: Queer Ancestry - Devotion, summer school 2026
Workshop: Sister Library - Monsoon school 2026
Masterclass: CRITICAE On Documentary Photography with Aaron Schuman - PhMuseum, October 2026 - May 2027
Book: the mom/artist notebook, pt. I - Art Paper Editions/Asiro éditions, to be released Fall 2026
past
Exhibition: Dit is alles, Academie voor Beeldende Kunst group show - De Onsteking (Ghent), 19 - 21 June 2026
Exhibition: Dit is alles, Academie voor Beeldende Kunst group show - De Onsteking (Ghent), 19 - 21 June 2026
Masterclass: Survival strategies: how to cultivate opportunity, with Gem Fletcher - Fotofilmic, January 2026
Exhibition: VAiF25 group show - Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 November - 21 December 2025
Exhibition: Full House group show - Elmo (Ghent), 03 October 2025 - 04 January 2026
Fair: Mentormentor photobook fair - Kunsthal (Gent), 7 November 2025
Exhibition: First Contact Print group show - Analoog Studio Arnhem (NL), 01 November 1 - 13 December 2025
Exhibition: The Feminist Art Prize group show - Ikob (Eupen), 13 April - 24 August 2025
Artist talk: with Lara Gasparotto at The Feminist Art Prize group show - Ikob (Eupen), 24 August
Exhibition: Zomersalon group show - Kunsthal (Gent), 4 July - 31 August 2025
Exhibition: Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten group show - old library Zuid (Ghent), 13 - 22 June 2025
Exhibition: Blueprints (with Lobna Morsi) group show - nw (Aalst), 27 June - 6 July 2025
Masterclass: Breedbeeld Blueprints with Vincen Beeckman, Rotor/nw Aalst, May 2024 - June 2025
Exhibition: Breedbeeld opus one 23 group show - CC Hasselt (Hasselt), 10 March - 19 May 2024
Workshop: Analogue photobook making with Thomasz Laczny (@movinganimal) - L'Enfant Sauvage (Brussels), February 2024
Artist talk: with Sofie Crabbé - M Leuven (Leuven), 6 January 2024
Exhibition: Buy Local 3 group show, Zomersalon - Kunsthal (Ghent), July-August 2023
Masterclass: Mentormentor with Vincen Beeckman, August 2023
Exhibition: RearView group show, graduation show at Parlor (Ghent), June 2023
Publication: Junkdump Magazine NYC, Spring 2023
Exhibition: Buy Local 2 group show, Zomersalon - Kunsthal (Ghent), Summer 2022
Exhibition + book: The ABC of Subbacultcha group show - S.M.A.K. (Ghent), May 2022
Exhibition: Subbacultcha community exhibition (Antwerp Art Weekend) group show - De Studio (Antwerp), May 2021
Education: Art Photography at Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent (2019-2026)
awards & grants
SOFAM mini grant 2026
Development grant Flemish Government 2025-2026
2nd Prize, Feminist Art Prize 2025