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Garden Chapel, or ‘Chapel for the ingredient’ is a proposition for a chapel like outdoor kitchen and residency.

The assignment was given as a part of the first-year bachelor programme Interior Design at LUCA School of arts. The intention was to conceptualize a temporary (artistic) residence that included within it a specific functionality usable by the resident. The context of the assigned site, the gardens of an old repurposed furniture factory within ghent’s Brugse Poort Neighborhood, allowed for an unconstricted volume to take shape. Within the volume, a kitchen is placed which gives the volume purpose as a place where ingredients grown in the surrounding gardens can be processed and presented by a chef in residence.
During the long search for the correct volume, a division which created a light-shaft presented itself within the middle of the volume. The central dividing wall, which seperates outside- and inside-space, creates the posibility to house both a chimney for the woodfire stove and simultaniously functions as a scenographic element. As the sun changes position, the way the kitchen surface is lit by the shaft’s guided sunlight changes gradually, iluminating the work-surface more as needed.

9 MITO01

TYPE:OBJECT

2026

MITO01, is an ongoing project exploring modular candlestick design and tablesetting.

MITO came out of a remark made by my partner, about how whenever common dining candles are lit, they have the same length, but look best when they eventually melt down to different heights.
The goal with MITO is to create a modular system of clustered O-shapes which form the foundation for cylinders of different heights. These cylinders in term carry the candles.
The modular nature of MITO allows the surrounding diners the ability to move around the cilinders, creating different compositions resulting in the object not just being a static centrepiece on a table, but an object that enables play.
The clustered o-ring that make up the foundation of MITO are a mirror of how cells duplicate themselves in a process called mitosis. These clustered ‘cells’ of metal open up possibility for extending the foundation into large surfaces. Larger foundations in turn present the possibility to form a scenographic tablesettings, or allow for new functionalities other than the bearing of candles.

8 DING Scenography

TYPE:MODEL

2026

DING Scenography, is a scenography and series of Plinths designed to facilitate the showing of an object range from the collection, within the context of Design Museum Ghent.

The assignment was given as a part of the 2nd year bachelor programme Interior Design at LUCA School of arts. The intented goal for the assignment was to create a scenography for, the soon to be completed, Ghent Design Museum that facilitated the showing of a series of design objects that were chosen within the theme of ‘Bending/Folding’.
The resulting scenography consists of a series of plinths in which shapes have been extracted from the objects shown chosen to be displayed. Entering the space, the visitors are met with a large bench which was placed to create a visual barrier, as well as a place where visitors can swap their footwear for rubber boots, required to enter the exhibition space. The space visitors enter once they step over the large grates is covered in sawdust.
Visually the sawdust references the production method of the wooden plinths, and evokes an olfactory experience that links to a craftsman’s workshop. Secondarily, the visitors leave trails in the sawdust, allowing other visitors to follow in previous visitors footsteps, or choose to literally walk outside of the trodden paths.
These paths also form an interesting indicator for museum staff, as it allows them to see which objects draw the most attention from visitors, how visitors choose to walk through the space, and if there are specific trends in visitor movement that otherwise remain unnoticed.
The overall end result of the somewhat challenging project is an interesting inquiry into unorthodox museum scenography, and how experiential scenography can be integrated into display-based exhibitions.
The project allowed me to become familiar with CNC lasercutting equipment, and it’s possibilities/restrictions, as this was the main method of production for the resulting scale-model.

7 JUDD Table

TYPE:OBJECT

2025

JUDD Table, is a personal project looking into CNC-assisted furniture production.

The coffee table, which references the personal furniture of artist Donald Judd. The goal of the project was to introduce myself to CNC-assisted woodworking, and restrict myself to
not using any hardware in the structure of the table. The negative spaces under the table’s surface create interesting shadows which change throughout the day, which make the minimal
piece feel alive and dynamic.
The resulting table, in polish birch plywood was consequentally oiled and currently sits as the main focus of my personal living room.

6 KOER Seating

TYPE: Furniture

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Modular seating for KOER, is an intervention using readily available materials to create a scalable seating solution.

The assignment was given as a part of the 2nd year bachelor programme Interior Design at LUCA School of arts. The assignment came at the request of Ghent based cultural space ‘de koer’.
During an intensive on-site week an effort was made to give new life to unused scaffolding materials to create a scalable seating unit, as a demand for such a commodity is high within the setting of de koer.An effort was made to keep the construction of the structure within the basic know-how of most volunteers that work at the cultural centre, and thus employs simple scaffoding connections and basic woodworked surfaces to create it’s structure and accompanying surfaces.
The project was completed in collaberation with fellow students; Amanda Porters, Merel Strobbe and Juta Donckers.

5 CLIP / 60 Minute Object

TYPE:OBJECT

2024

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CLIP / 60 minute object is an object created within the restriction of a 60 minute timeframe.

Clip was created within the context of a short-form design assignment in during the first year of the LUCA school of arts bachelor programme and uses at-hand, recycled materials from the LUCA workshop bins to create a small colourful object. Employing cut-down orange acrylic and a set of nuts and bolts to create a clamp for displaying photos or other printware.

4 Uppercut

TYPE:VIDEOGRAPHY

2026

This videography project was done at the request of UPPERCUT Gallery founder Scott Lippens, for the Exhibition EDGES featuring both solo and collaberative works from Bram Vanderbeke and Wendy Andreu.
The show was on view from 22nd of January till the 28th of February 2026 rodolphe janssen in Brussels, Belgium.
The videography, editing and sound was done in collaberation with Ferre van Bogaert, Amanda Porters and Andres Claeys.

3 FLINT STOOLS / MOON / PROPS

TYPE:FURNITURE / MANUFACTURING

2026

FLINT is a set of stools, currently a work-in-progress, produced out of bent solid steel rods which are then welded together and textured by hand, giving the pair it’s texture which reminds one of pre-historic flint arrowheads.

MOON is a piece of sheet metal repurposed from an industrial shelving unit, hammered and polished to create a texture that catches light. The purpose of the object is was to serve as a central backdrop piece during a dance performance performed at NTGent.

PROP is a miniature billboard manufactured out of sheet metal, after which it was aged and weathered. The prop was created for a miniature film-set for a short student film, to be shown at Ghent Film Festival.

INFO

WOLF HEMMEN
Born 1998, in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands.

My childhood was mostly spent growing up in the working-class neighborhood of ‘de Oosterpark’, where i was often found bent over a piece of paper with a pen in hand drawing. Through my parents and the parents of middle-school friends’ I was surrounded by creatives of all disciplines, or playing in the background during openings at local Groningen galleries. Influenced by the professions of my parents friends I went on to study multi-media Design at Noorderpoort College. Here i had a focus on scenography and photography, and interned at Rutger Prins his studio REGIME where I worked on promotional material and album covers for musicians.
In 2021 i completed a bachelor in Fine arts at Academie Minerva during which my choice of medium lay in installation, multi-media and video. Here a strong focus on the relation between space, object and person started to take shape. This focus I still carry with me to this day.
Following my time at Academie Minerva I sought familiarity in the hospitality industry, in which my parents were both active during my younger years. Quickly i moved from Groningen to Berlin, Germany where I cut my teeth at several high-end restaurants. During my time in Berlin in became acquainted with a wide range of contemporary design and became fascinated with how specifically interior design shaped experiences within the context of restaurants which lead me to leave my career as a chef and continue studying at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium.

EDUCATION:

BACHELOR INTERIOR DESIGN // LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS 2024 -

BACEHLOR OF FINE ARTS // ACADEMIE MINERVA 2017 - 2021

MBO MULTIMEDIA VORMGEVING // NOORDERPOORT COLLEGE 2014 - 2017

PUBLICATIONS / EXHIBITIONS:

OFFDAY - EXHIBITION // WEP GRONINGEN - 2017

OOGTV - INTERVIEW // RE;POST EXHIBITION - 2020

KUNSTHUIS SYB - RESIDENCY - 2020

DETOUR - EXHIBITION // WOLKENFABRIEK GRONINGEN - 2021