About
Artist Statement
Sookie Brarou (BE, 1994) is a Brussels-based artist and engineer whose practice spans collage, light and architecture.
Her collage work explores the poetics of image-making through the manipulation of both digital and analog photography. Attentive to scale, colour and composition, she assembles minimal yet evocative images that open up dreamlike, introspective spaces.
Her experience in lighting design influences both her visual work and architectural collaborations. She has taught lighting design as a guest lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and continues to lead independent projects that explore the emotional and spatial potential of light.
In 2025, she joined the team of Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, contributing her architectural expertise to the museum’s evolving development.
Recent projects include the co-creation of a storybook with Belgian author Oriane Philippe and the founding of the Brussels Collage Collective, a platform dedicated to promoting contemporary collage and supporting collage artists in Belgium and beyond.
About
Timeline
2017
Master’s Degree in Architectural Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
2018
Collective exhibition <Art Lover Ground> at Arteria BCN, Barcelona, Spain.
Collective exhibition <Next Generation, Please! > at Bozar, Brussels, Belgium.
Album cover project <Fine Wind Clear Morning> for G.Sav.
Award of the Best Artist of the Year at <2018 GAMMA Young Artist Competition: Global Landscape of Sustainable Art> Tokyo, Japan.
Publication in <Thalia Magazine>, September/October 2018 issue.
Collective exhibition <Monitor Fest> at Athena Factory> Heraklion, Greece.
Postcards project for the promotion of <Monitor Fest> at Athena Factory Heraklion, Greece.
Collective exhibition <International Invited Exhibition> at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
Publication in <Access Magazine Korea>, 2018 Gamma Young Artist Competition special issue.
2019
Honorable Mention Award in the Digital and Photography category at <Fusion Art 2nd Annual Women Artists Art Exhibition>.
Collective exhibition of the <VeniceLands Art Prize> finalists, Treviso, Italy.
Collective exhibition <We Art Ixelles> Brussels, Belgium.
Finalists’ collective exhibition at <Visual Art Open 2019 Awards> Chester, UK.
Partnership with <OneFrame> Brussels, Belgium.
2020
Solo exhibition at <Happy Days Ixelles> Brussels, Belgium.
Collective exhibition at <Concept Store Gallery> La Baule, France.
Collective exhibition at <Concept Store Gallery> Paris, France.
Solo online exhibition at <Obition> Seoul, South Korea.
2021
Collective exhibition at <Balthasar> Brussels, Belgium.
Wintergloed, Bruges Light Festival with <ACTLD> Bruges, Belgium.
2022
Collective exhibition at <The Nine> Brussels, Belgium.
Lighting design for Unholy Light 2022 at <M Museum> Leuven, Belgium.
2023
Collective exhibition <Femme Fame> Brussels, Belgium.
Participation in the creators’ market <Lumière & Paillettes> Brussels, Belgium.
2024
Participation in the creators’ market of <Gram Galerie> Braine-Le-Comte, Belgium.
Participation in the creators’ market of <L’Usine> Brussels, Belgium.
Collage workshop at <Amiko> Brussels, Belgium.
2025
Book illustration project <Riquiqui et La Couverture> in collaboration with Oriane Philippe.
Founding of <Brussels Collage Collective>.