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, authorship, and relational modes of artistic production, and paying particular attention to underrepresented contexts.
Informed by her role as editor-in-chief of Different Class, her work is embedded in sustained collaborations with people from that immediate environment. Raeman positions her collaborators as co-authors, developing projects shaped by time, care, mutual openness and shared responsibility. Through deliberately intimate and dialogical processes, 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 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).
She is currently developing Let us see you again, a collaborative project with Lobna Morsi, mentored by photographer Vincen Beeckman within the Blueprints programme (Breedbeeld). The first iteration of the project was exhibited at nw in Aalst in June 2025.
current & upcoming
Exhibition: Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten group show - De Onsteking (Ghent), 19 - 21 June 2026
Fair: Les Rencontres d’Arles 2026 with Kunstenpunt & Mentormentor, 06 - 10 July 2026
past
Traject: 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 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
Traject: 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: opus one 23 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
Education: Art Photography at Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent
Graduation project, June 2023: ‘the mom/artist notebook, pt.1’, In between caring and creating, images and reflections of artists who are also mothers
Mentor: Tali Hinkis
Collaborators: Meg Remy, Jennifer Hazel, Lulu Hazel Turnbull, Lou Vanrafelghem, Dlisah Lapidus, Clyde, Temple, Marcello, Fifi, Nick, Jaco and Christa
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
awards & grants
SOFAM mini grant 2026
Development grant Flemish Government 2025-2026
2nd Prize, Feminist Art Prize 2025