Bert Serneels

Bert Serneels is an interdisciplinary maker and designer with a toolbox composed from artistic research and personal professional development. During his master Interior Architecture (Antwerp 1999) he explored the boundaries of his discipline by searching for stories between people, objects and spaces. This approach, which he calls narrative design, is his spark for scenography. From this fascination he started his career as technical designer here at OBV in 2002, where he translates scenographic concepts into final productions. He combines this job with interior projects, later with teaching the course Temporary Installations at KASK (Gent, 2012), as a production designer for film sets (Silent Campine 2017, Logger 2022) and again as a student in the Master in Theatre, a post-experience study programme for professionals at the Toneelacademie Maastricht (2018/21). In his research Bert focuses on volatility in public space, as in the soundwalk untraced lines and relative publication (essay after soundwalk, 2020) and in the website dwell-on.com (2021). As a scenographer he uses this artistic research and toolbox for designing narrative spaces and places.