Ief Spincemaille
Spincemaille’s artistic journey traverses visual arts, design and performance and a diverse range of working contexts.
He works in bicycle factories, prisons, residential complexes, … .
Exploring the boundaries of his field of work (that of the arts), he plays with its existing frameworks and shapes. Not just out of joy of playing a formalistic game, but out of necessity for new forms that better respond to his imagination.
His projects always arise from a childish wonder for simple phenomena. Things that are so close and familiar that they remain invisible.
Ief Spincemaille obtained his master in philosophy at the university of Leuven and studied jazz, modern music and music and technology at L’aula de musica, Barcelona.
After finishing his studies he made his first work as an autodidact in 2006: ‘Is The Great Bear a Lonely Bear’. Since then he is active as an independent set designer and visual artist.
His work has been shown at a.o. the Dutch Film Festival (Utrecht), at the Ferme Des Buissons (Paris), L’Opera (Paris), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam), Festival d’Avignon, Felix De Boeck Museum, Artifact Leuven, STRP festival (Eindhoven), …
His installation “There is the sun” (2013) was honored in 2014 with an Honorary Mention by the jury “Interactive Art” of Ars Electronica (Linz).
From 2014 to 2016, Ief was appointed as the official city artist of Leuven.
Ief is the technical advisor of Werktank.
