Bauke Driessens (° 2002) is a visual artist from Leuven. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at Sint-Lucas Antwerp and completed her Master’s degree at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. Her artistic practice departs from the perspective of painting, through which she explores the interplay between presence and absence.

Objects and shadows serve as a guiding thread in her work, revealing and recording traces of people, moments, and everyday life. Where shadows begin to transform into material objects, she creates illusions in which absence feels present, subtly challenging perception. Through this, she tells a story of holding on and letting go, of constructing and deconstructing.

On monochrome surfaces, subtle nuances emerge—reflecting notions of the domestic and what it can mean in terms of warmth and coldness. Her work consistently seeks contemplation and connection, bridging the individual and the universal, the past and the present, while uncovering hidden meanings and associations within objects and spaces.