about Tieke

Tieke Scheerlinck is a visual artist, an activist, a teacher, a student, a mom.

She started a bachelor’s degree in jewellery at Sint-Lucas Antwerp in 2016 and became a mother for the first time during her studies. Feeling powerless about what was happening in the world and unable to take to the barricades due to her new motherhood, she developed her artistic language through images of resistance and resilience.
Meanwhile, in 2025, she started a master’s degree in visual arts in a socio-political context, with the aim of connecting people through ‘positive artivism’, where political polarization had driven them apart.

She starts from encounters and interviews with people, in order to make a personal little story tangible and universal. Themes that sometimes remain abstract due to dehumanised reporting in the media, such as people fleeing and trauma – both collective and individual – are addressed.
Her work is about connecting people with each other and connecting with yourself.

She describes her work as visual art in the language of jewellery. For her, that language is about contact with the body, value, sparkle, or the jewellery itself.

The materials and forms emerge gradually, so that the final work can be wearable jewellery as well as objects, photographs, videos and installations, made from precious and non-precious metals, precious and semi-precious stones, wood, seeds, wool…

Because the earth’s resources are not inexhaustible, as much attention is paid to finding recycled or natural materials as to the creative process.

As a result of this sustainable focus on raw materials in her work, she started the course ‘recuperatheek’ at Sint-Lucas Antwerp.
It is a shop within the school where students can find recycled raw materials in exchange for their participation.
She teaches them different techniques to recycle waste into new materials themselves.

Becoming a mother for the second time coincided with a divorce and the start of renovating a house on her own, which meant she had to juggle many things at once.

Fortunately, seeing the beauty in things is her greatest talent.

exhibitions
dec. 2023 – Dingen die niet verkopen verkopen u dingen
Antwerp, BE 07/12/2023 – 24/12/2023
sep. – oct. 2023 – Re:ACTION
Budapest Jewellery Week, Budapest, HU 22/09/2023 – 06/10/2023
may 2023 – Quality 
Holownia, Legnica , PL 
mar. 2023 – 13
St Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, BE
feb. – mar. 2023 – ICONIC, the carnival of arts
Arte Design Venezia, Venice, IT 04/02/2023 – 12/03/2023 
jan. 2023 – On full fire 
Rivierenhof, Antwerp, BE 26/01/2023 – 05/02/2023 
jul. – oct. 2022 – SMCK On Reel 
Munich Jewellery Week, Munich, DE
Grassi Museum Leipzig, DE 20/10/2023 – 23/10/2023
Museum of History of Ukraine, Kyiv, UA
National Museum of Lithuania, Vilnius Biennale 2022, LT
Romanian Jewellery Week, Bucharest, RO 08/10/2022 – 09/10/2022 
apr. 2022 – Be.NEXT
Brussels Jewellery Week, Brussels, BE 29/04/2022 – 01/05/2022
apr. – dec. 2022 – Work in progress
DIVA Pop-Up, Antwerp, BE 
sep. 2021 – Cold sweat 
Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennal, Lisbon, PT
sep. 2021 – START 
St Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, BE 
jul. 2021 – Onboards Biennale 
billboards in the city of Antwerp, BE 
apr. – dec. 2021-  Still Human 
Galeria Sztuki, Legnica, PL
GoldExpo, Warsaw, PL
Gallery N, Jablonec, CZ 
2017 – 2018 – From Walter to 
Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp, BE
DIVA Home of diamonds, Antwerp, BE
Sieraad Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL