Philosophy:
Pascale De Backer is an artist, designer, interior architect, art museum guide and a maker of dreams. She creates poetic designs between art and functionality. Her aim is to give design not only a functional purpose, but also a conceptual dimension, giving people a new perspective on design that stimulates reflection on meaning and content. She creates objects, spaces, and installations where one can disconnect from the world around and enter an experience where nature, light, material, and sound can stimulate and expand the soul.
"For me design is poetry: I create objects that radiate poetry and illuminate the soul. I want to create icons that are rare, powerful, and meaningful. Creations that are not only objects to be seen, but that reveal a deeper essence. My objects have to surprise the world: one has to wonder first, like a child who for the first time sees the Moon. I want people to think about the meaning... I want to break with convention and approach design from an unexpected point of view..."
She creates new dimensions, so life can be seen and experienced from another perspective, opening the mind and leading us towards new dreams.
Selected Exhibitions, Museum Collections Awards & Collaborations
2024 Permanent Collection, Salone Satellite (1998-2024),
Arts Pavilion, Cultural District, Hong Kong, China 2023 Light Book: International Heritage, Design Museum Ghent, Belgium 2021 Crush, Design Museum Brussels, Belgium 2021 Milan Design Week, 1000 Vases, Superstudio Più, Via Tortona 27 2019 Museum CID Grand-Hornu, Design On Air, Hornu, Belgium 2019 Arte Laguna Prize, First Selection, Art Design Category, Venice, Italy 2018 Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands 2018 Permanent Collection, The Plastic Design Collection,
Design Museum Brussels, Belgium 2018 Milan Design Week, Future is Nhow, Nhow Design Hotel,
Via Tortona 35, Milan, Italy 2017 Nhow Hotel, I Did It!, Art & Design exhibition, Via Tortona 35, Milan 2017 Solo Exhibition, De Vuyst Art Gallery, Lokeren, Belgium 2017 Permanent Collection, Design Museum Ghent, Belgium 2017 Copyright Bookshop, Antwerp & Ghent, Belgium 2017 MintShop Design Gallery, London, UK 2017 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite,
The Best 20 Years of New Creativity, Milan, Italy 2017 Milan Design Week, Meet My Project, Next Agency, Milan, Italy 2016 Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium 2016 La Biennale di Venezia, Global Art Affairs Foundation,
Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy 2015 Shortlisted Happy Led Life Award, International Design Biennale,
Gwangju, Korea
2015 Month Of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 Jovoto, Outstanding Product Design and Interior Design
2014 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Honorable Mention, Paris, France
2014 Gelinkt, Design Museum Ghent, Belgium
2013 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy 2013 Paris Design Week, Maison et Objet, Paris, France
2013 Paris Design Week, Meet My Project, Paris, France
201 1 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy
201 1 Milan Design Week, Avverati, A Dream Come True, Cosmit, Citroën,
Via Montenapoleone, Milan, Italy
201 1 Permanent Collection Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy 201 1 DMY International Design Festival, Berlin, Germany
201 1 Venice Design Week, Venice, Italy
2009 CHANEL, Paris, France 2009 Milan Design Week, Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy
2009 100% Design, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2009 International Photography Award, Honorable Mention, New York, US
2008 Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium
2007 Media Art Festival, Friesland, The Netherlands
2007 Solo Exhibition, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2007 Design Expo, Wg Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Design Expo, Shanghai Design Factory, China
2006 3d Price, Urban Eyrie Architecture Award, A Haven in The City,
World Architecture News, Royal Academy of Arts London, UK
2005 Beurs Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Paris Design Week, Maison et Objet, Paris, France
2004 Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Belgium
2004 1st Price, Design With Plastic, Fechiplast, Brussels, Belgium
Pascalina Design Studio
Designer: Pascale De Backer
Nationality: Belgium
Email: info@pascalina.be
Study:
2026 - 2028 Master’s in Art Therapy, (in progress), Metàfora, Barcelona 2025 - 2026 Postgraduate in Art Therapy & Community Art, Metàfora,
Barcelona, Spain 2022 Analyzing Children’s Drawings, Belgium 2021 Sotheby’s Institute of Art: Global Art & Finance, London, UK 2004 - 2007 Bachelor’s in Design & Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000 - 2004 Bachelor’s in Interior and Furniture Design,
Lucas Faydherbe, Mechelen, Belgium 1997-2000 Audiovisual Arts, De Kunsthumaniora, Antwerp, Belgium
1994 - 1997 Secondary Education (ASO), Antwerp, Belgium
Internships:
2006 Denis Santachiara, Design Studio, Milan, Italy
2005 Webarchitects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Christophe Decarpentrie, Interior Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
2004 Jef Boden, Architect & Engineer, Kalmthout, Belgium
2003 Gert Willemen, Interior Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium
Professional:
-DESIGNER I 2008 - Present
Design of contemporary objects
-ART MUSEUM GUIDE & ART WORKSHOP DESIGNER I 2018 - Present
Guided tours and educational art workshops in Dutch and English for:
2019 - 2020 Belfius Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium 2019 - 2020 CIVA, Architecture Foundation, Brussels, Belgium 2019 - 2020 MIMA Museum, Brussels, Belgium 2019 - 2020 Arkadia, Brussels, Belgium 2018 - 2020 Kanal - Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium 2018 - 2020 Fondation Folon, La Hulpe, Belgium
-INTERIOR ARCHITECT I 2008 - Present
Private design and interior projects:
Design and total renovations of houses, lofts, penthouses, apartments, offices, hotels, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, children’s rooms, lighting concepts, and bespoke furniture. From concept to realization.
-FREELANCE DESIGN & INTERIOR ARCHITECT FOR:
2023 - 2024 DBS Equestrian, (now Intibio) - Design of Horse Supplements 2016 - 2017 Pedini, Interior Architecture, Italy 2012 - 2014 Vooruitzicht, Interior Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 CrepainBinst Architecture, Lighting Design, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 PUUR Interior Architecture, Antwerp, Belgium