Saskia Van der Gucht (1988) lives and works in Antwerp
artistic research
Co-founded art collective Spring Pears, 2024 - present
Eachseed, 2025 - present
ongoing collaborative research with Leonie Persyn
‘On sand: unpacking preciousness’, 2023 - 2024
at AdMa & SLARG - Sint Lucas Antwerpen Research Group
‘Jewellery Matter Time: Hard Data, Soft Stories’, 2022 - 2023
‘Jewellery Matter Time: True Cost of a Jewel’, 2020 - 2022
Precious Dialogue - research platform Sint Lucas Antwerpen
- collaborations with Irma Földényi
teaching and organizing
master class ‘curious collaborations and collective clarity’, 2025
MA Visual Arts - Sint Lucas Antwerpen
BIP Glass, Craft & Sustainability with Rero Glass Studio, 2024 - 2025
a collaboration with Minerva Groningen, EKA Tallinn and HFK Bremen
master coach, 2024 - 2025
MA Jewellery - Sint Lucas Antwerpen
lecturer, 2020 - present
elective theory course: art & design in the anthropocene
MA Visual Arts - Sint Lucas Antwerpen
external jury member, 2023
MA Jewellery Department - Royal Academy of Art Antwerpen
coördinator, 2018 - 2019
BA and MA program
St Lucas School of Arts, Department of Jewellery Design
studio teacher, 2017 - 2022
BA Studio sieraad - Sint Lucas Antwerpen
St Lucas School of Arts, Department of Jewellery Design
recent and upcoming lectures
‘A Care-full Debriefing with the Spring Pears’
SLARG research week - Sint Lucas Antwerpen, 20th October 2025
‘On sand: unpacking preciousness’ - Brussels Jewellery Week, 2024
‘Hard Data, Soft Stories’ - Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, 2024
‘Jewellery Matter Time: True Cost of a Jewel’ - Studio Talks at Museum Arnhem, 2022
publications
‘The sound was unlike anything I’d ever heard before’
fragment of a fictional story, contribution for ‘Forever is such a small word’
Adma Typp research publication 2026
‘Assembly of Threads’, 2025
self published artist publication with the Spring Pears
‘Jewellery, Matter, Time - A Road through Social Contexts, Searching for the True Cost of a Jewel’
Saskia Van der Gucht & Irma Foldenyi, interviewed by Petra van Brabandt, 2021 Fall Issue vol.28 no.3
Forum+ Journal for research and arts
selection of group exhibitions and residencies
Traces - Dingen die niet verkopen - Antwerp, Belgium, 2026
duo exhibition with Amber De Saeger
We paused before a House that seemed | A Swelling of the Ground - Arttelex, Antwerp, Belgium, 2025
second showing of duo exhibition with Elise Hoebeke
Postal Service publication with the Spring Pears collective, 2025
self-organised print residency at Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Mostra Movimento film screening - Cooperativa Mula - Lisbon, Portugal, 2025
We paused before a House that seemed | A Swelling of the Ground - private space, Munich, Germany, 2025
self organised duo exhibition with Elise Hoebeke
Movimento 10th edition - residency and public film screening in Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal, 2024
We Who Are About To - Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium, 2024
graduation show Advanced Master in Research in Art & Design at Sint Lucas Antwerpen
matter on its dance through time - Fred & Ferry Gallery - Antwerp, Belgium, 2023
Sandscapes - Morpho - Antwerp, Belgium, 2023
with Irma Földényi, Eline De Clercq and Virág Szálas-Motesiczky
Conversation table on sand - Showroom Sint Lucas - Antwerp, Belgium, 2022
with Irma Földényi
Dag Sint-Jansplein - Salon Si en La - Antwerp, Belgium, 2020
Shelf Publishing - Troebel Neyntje en M HKA - Antwerp, Belgium, 2019
Van A tot Z. Kom dat Zine - Permeke Bibliotheek - Antwerp, Belgium, 2018
Biënnale van de Banale Dragers - Troebel Neyntje - Antwerp, Belgium, 2017
BORG 2016 - Arop - Antwerp, Belgium, 2016
Around the corner - Cc Zwaneberg - Heist-Op-Den-Berg, Belgium, 2016
Sieraad Art Fair - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015
Komaan - Happening & Publication - Factor 44 - Antwerp, Belgium, 2015
Daybreak - Hubei Museum of Art - Wuhan, China, 2015
De Gemene Deler - Hole Of The Fox - Antwerp, Belgium, 2015
Magma Crowded - Magma - Antwerp, Belgium, 2014
education
2023 - 2024 Advanced Master in Research and Design
Sint Lucas Antwerpen, KdG School of Arts
2017 - 2020 Graduate Teacher Training - HBO5
AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts Antwerp
2010 - 2017 jeweller & goldsmithing eveningclasses
Syntra AB - Antwerp
2008 - 2014 MA/BA Visual Arts - Jewellery Design | Silversmithing
Sint Lucas Antwerpen, KdG School of Arts