Cultural work
2025-2026
Exhibitions KU Leuven 600 years
Over the past six centuries, the University of Leuven in Belgium has amassed a rich architectural heritage. To mark its…
2023-2025
Book KU Leuven 600 years
In 2025, KU Leuven will celebrate its 600th anniversary. Belgium's oldest university looks back on a rich past with a…
2024-2025
Architect Laurent-Benoît Dewey
Karin Borghouts has photographed 17 buildings by architect Laurent-Benoît Dewey (1731-1812) in and around Brussels and in Wallonia Belgium.…
2024
Kerk Ruisbroek - Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
The long-awaited renovation work has begun. It will transform the Ruisbroek church in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw for the future. This was a…
2024
Leopoldskazerne Gent
After several busy years of conversion works, the disused military barracks, which later housed artists' studios and HISK, has been…
2024
Churches - Vlaams Bouwmeester
On 30 January 2024, Team Vlaams Bouwmeester presented the book "Herscheppen. Ontwerpend onderzoek voor het Projectbureau Herbestemming Kerken 2016-2021".For several…
2024
Fin-de-Siècle Museum
On 8 January 2024, the Fin-de-Siècle Museum closed its doors. Located in the heart of Brussels, this museum is part…
2023
Fierensblokken Antwerp
The Fierens blocks on the corner of Nationalestraat and Kronenburgstraat in Antwerp Belgium have almost been demolished. After years of…
2023
Atlas Van Gogh in Brabant
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) spent half his life in Brabant, in the Netherlands. A significant part of his oeuvre was…
2023
Pillows Hotel Amsterdam
Pillows Grand Boutique Hotel Maurits at the Park is a 5-star hotel located on the Mauritskade in Amsterdam. The building,…
2020-2022
KMSKA - the new museum
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp in Belgium (KMSKA) was closed for major renovation and reopened on September 24th,…
2011-2020
KMSKA - construction site
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen) is closed for major renovation. The work…
2022
Singer Museum Laren
The new Nardinc wing of the Singer Museum in Laren, the Netherlands, is intended to house the art collection of…
2022
Campus Cadix
Photography for Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten. The project for the new Cadix school campus on the Eilandje in Antwerp Belgium is…
2022
Parkzicht 2 - HAMA
The Parkzicht 2 flat block designed by HAMA Architecten has a central yet quiet location on the park, the Scheldt…
2022
De Reusch water tower
Photography for Dedrie ArchitectenThe national monumental water tower in Schimmert The Netherlands was built in 1926-1927 and designed in Amsterdam…
2022
Senate The Hague by HCVA
The temporary home of the Upper House and Council of State accomodation of the Senate, The Hague (NL), designed by…
2022
Delen Private Bank
Delen Private Bank celebrates its 85th anniversary with a passion for art. In cooperation with 3 Antwerp galleries, 100 Belgian…
2022
Vogelenzang Ghent - HAMA
12 social housing units, Vogelenzang, Ghent (B) by HAMA architectenarchitectural competition – 1st prizePhotography © Karin BorghoutsPost production Wouter Bollaerts
2021
Social Housing HAMA
A social housing project of 50 units in Willebroek, Belgium for HAMA architecten. The design won a 1st prize in…
2021
Town Hall Tilburg
Photography of exterior and interior of the Townhall in Tilburg, the Netherlands, for Dedrie Architecten (NL). Artwork in the municipality…
2010-2022
Royal Greenhouses Laeken Belgium
At the time of their construction (1874-1905) the Royal Greenhouses at Laeken (Brussels) were quite exceptional owing to their scale,…
2020
De Bijloke
The Bijloke Music Centre is a cultural institution for classical music, jazz and contemporary arts, within the Bijloke site in…
2021
Boekentoren Gent
Karin Borghouts was invited to photograph the beautifully renovated and still empty interiors of De Boekentoren (book tower) in Ghent.…
2021
Harbour Building ANTWERP
Photography for Sergison Bates architects. The site is part of the Cadix regeneration area in the former dockland district of…
2020-2021
The Final Journey. De laatste reis.
The home, the place where we can safely retreat. It is also the place where our identity becomes visible. Interiors…
2020
CODA
Coda is a palliative center in Wuustwezel, Belgium designed by noAarchitecten. Started in 2013 as a Pilot Project Care by…
2019
Fire Station Wilrijk by HCVA
Karin Borghouts photographed then new fire station Wilrijk for Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten.More information (Dutch). Look at Divisare
2019
Gruuthusemuseum Brugge
After a 5 year renovation and refurbishment period, the Gruuthusemuseum in Bruges is now open. Besides works on the interior,…
2019
HCVA architecten - Museum De Lakenhal Leiden
Museum De Lakenhal is Leiden’s municipal museum for art, applied art and history and since its inception in 1874 it…
2016-2019
Museum De Lakenhal Leiden
Between 2016 and 2019, Karin Borghouts followed the rebuilding process at Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden (NL) with her camera.…
2019
Het Predikheren Mechelen
The Predikheren Mechelen. Transformation of a Monastery Ruin into a City Library.Het Predikheren Mechelen. Herbestemming van een kloosterruïne tot stadsbibliotheek…
2019
Museum Dr. Guislain
Museum Dr. Guislain is a museum on the history of psychiatry founded in 1986 and based in Ghent Belgium. The…
2018-2019
RTT buildings in Belgium
In fall 2018 Karin Borghouts and Filip Dujardin were commissioned by Proximus to photograph a number of former RTT buildings…
2018
Cadix architectural project by HCVA
Karin Borghouts photographed a social housing complex designed by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architects. North of the centre of Antwerp lies…
2018
Mechelen, in the footsteps of Margareta
The City of Mechelen Belgium commissioned Karin Borghouts to photograph over 40 historical buildings and places with origins in the…
2018
Interbellum house Huib Hoste in Knokke
The house De Beir is a modernist building designed by the Belgian architect Huib Hoste in 1924. It is situated…
2018
Ruysdael & Saenredam in Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar
In Alkmaar, the Netherlands, the 500-year anniversary of the great or St Lawrence Church will be celebrated in 2018. The…
2017
Prison in protected landscape
Commissioned by AR-TUR, Centre for Architecture, Karin Borghouts depicts the prisons of Merksplas and Hoogstraten. Merksplas is the oldest prison…
2017
B30 The Hague - KAAN Architecten
The governmental building B30 in The Hague was first conceived by Daniël Knuttel in 1917, and now became the new…
2017
De Blokskens - HCV Architecten
Commissioned assignment social housing project “De Blokskens” in Zandhoven Belgium for Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven Architecten. “Aan de rand van Zandhoven…
2015-2016
Antwerpen, stad verbeeld
Antwerpen, stad verbeeld (‘Antwerp, A City Depicted’) forms a diptych with Antwerpen, verloren stad (‘Antwerp, Lost City’). Where the first…
2011-2025
The Royal Palace Brussels
Karin Borghouts is photographing in the Royal Palace in the center of Brussels Belgium since 2011. These photographs are exclusively…
2016
Ghent Floralies
The Ghent Floralies (Floraliën Gent) is a unique exhibition of flowers and plants in historical city locations in Ghent Belgium.…
2015
Historische Huizen Gent
Karin Borghouts photographed exteriors and interiors of 7 Historische Huizen (historical houses) in Ghent Belgium. A commissioned assignment by the…
2012-2015
Boekentoren
De Boekentoren (Book Tower) in Ghent Belgium is an architectural masterpiece (1936-1942) by the Belgian architect Henry Van de Velde…
2014
Churches of Ghent
Karin Borghouts has photographed 46 churches in Ghent (B); a commissioned assignment of STAM, citymuseum Ghent, BE. Solo exhibition in…
2014
Bruges - Kantje boord
A commissioned assignment of Museum Bruges. Lace in past and present through the lens of Karin Borghouts Snapshot is a…
2012-2014
Stadsfotograaf Antwerpen City photographer
Karin Borghouts was selected as a city photographer of Antwerp, Belgium from March 2012 until March 2014, an inititative of…
2013
Antwerp city architect
Stadsbouwmeester (City Architect) of Antwerp, Kristiaan Borret, commissioned Karin Borghouts to photograph buildings and sites under construction in Antwerp during…
2013
Bindingen
Portraits and stories of foreign people living in Antwerp BE. ‘Bindingen’ is a project of some teachers of Stedelijk Centrum…
2012-2013
Ghent Vooruit 100
Vooruit Arts Center is a historic complex in the Belgian city of Ghent, Belgium. Vooruit was originally the festival and…
2012-2013
Museum to scale
Museum to scale features more of hundred exhibition rooms at a scale of 1/7. The exhibition gives an overview of…
2011-2012
cc Hasselt
Cultuurcentrum Hasselt Belgium celibrates 40 year in 2012 and commissioned Karin Borghouts to photograph activities and architecture in the building…
2011
MAS citymuseum Antwerp
MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp (BE) asked Karin Borghouts to make six new city portraits for the box ‘Antwerp…
2010-2012
Middelheimmuseum
The Middelheim Museum is a unique sculptures and monumental art park near the Antwerp town edge (BE). Karin Borghouts photographed…
2007
Zoo beeldig
A commissioned assignment of Erfgoedcel Antwerpen in collaboration with KMDA (The Antwerp Royal Society for Zoology), 2007. The book Zoo…
2006-2007
Verbeeld verleden
‘Portrayed Past’ was one of the two last exhibitions in the Volkskundemuseum (Museum of Regional Ethnology) Antwerp before the museum…
2006
Living
Karin Borghouts has photographed the living rooms of families from different ethnic backgrounds living in Brussels. ‘Living’ offers the visitor…
2005
Saga Japan
Karin Borghouts was invited to photograph in Japan in December 2005 at the invitation of the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee,…