Born in 1989, Nel Verbeke has been living and working in Brussels as a conceptual designer and artist dedicated to the emotional potential of design. Nel Verbeke studied Concept Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (NL), following an education in Fine Arts at Luca School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium.

Throughout her conceptual design practice, Nel Verbeke searches and formulates new arrangements of our material and immaterial surroundings. Her  works and collections are alternative compositions of time, space, motion and acts. Departing from an in-depth research, in which she looks back as well as ahead and critically reflects on the current zeitgeist, she arrives at situations and objects that both question and transform our relationship to ourselves and to what surrounds us.

Nel Verbeke materialises her concepts with refined and timeless creations that should be understood as proto-instruments: thoughtful and delicate tools that provoke dedicated acts and, as such, represent proposals for future rituals. Her works remind us of the passage of time, create spaces for introspection and contemplation and invite us to stand still and embrace the emotional ambivalence of our existence rather than to resist it.