| Biography |
Elien Haentjens is trained as an Art Historian at the University of Leuven, where she specialized in Modern and Contemporary Art, before completing her education as a journalist at Vlekho in Brussels. Since 2006, she has worked as a freelance journalist specializing in art, lifestyle and especially design, for Belgian magazines and newspapers, including Ik ga Bouwen/Je vais Construire, Trends and De Standaard. Since 2012, she has also curated and organized exhibitions, mainly in Brazil, to promote the diversity, creativity and quality of Belgian design, and to stimulate valuable cross-cultural relationships. As an art historian, journalist and curator she is always looking for the story and creative, passionate people behind the object. Most artists and designers have a personal story to tell, and a personal goal to reach in their efforts to create a better world. At the same time, seeing something beautiful also gives her energy, and makes her calm at the same time.
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