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

Objects and shadows serve as a guiding thread in their work, revealing and recording traces of people, moments, and everyday life. Where shadows begin to transform into material objects, they create illusions in which absence feels present, subtly challenging perception. Through this, they tell 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. Their 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.