RIET VAN LYSEBETTENS 
Riet is a 26-year-old graphic designer, currently completing a master’s in Graphic Design at KASK. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts, specializing in printmaking, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Education (Biology and Art Education).

Her work often takes the form of publications, where material, texture, and rhythm play a central role. Sometimes a theme guides the process, but just as often the paper or technique itself determines the direction. 



CONTACT

rietvanlysebettens@gmail.com
Instagram
CV 


Education

Master of Arts (MA) in 
Visual Arts – Specialization in Graphic Design
KASK & Conservatorium 
School of Arts Ghent
2025 – 2026

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 
Visual Arts – Graphic Design
(Printmaking) 
KASK & Conservatorium 
School of Arts Ghent
2022 – 2025

Educational Bachelor (BA) in Secondary Education – Subjects: Biology, Visual Arts Education, Artevelde University of 
Applied Sciences
2019 – 2022

Skills

Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator

Screen printing
Lithography
Monotype printing
Etching
Bookbinding

Photography
Drawing & sketching
Visual storytelling & composition
Classroom management & didactics

Leadership & Extracurricular Activities

Student Representative, School of Arts Council
2023 – 2025

Culture Ambassador, Student Services Artevelde University of Applied Sciences
2020 – 2022

Student Representative, Visual Arts Department Council, Artevelde University of Applied Sciences
2019 – 2022
Exhibitions

MAP#191: Frilly Blouse Syndrome
Glazen Gang (Bijlokesite, Gent)
March – April 2026 

Group Exhibition: Printmaking Zwarte Zaal (Bijlokesite, Gent)
March 2025

Match Made in Heaven
Het Tekenkabinet (Bijlokesite, Gent)
February 2025

Printmaking Showcase
Zwarte Zaal (Bijlokesite, Gent)
March 2024

Press

‘Tussen schoonheid en onrust’, De Geus,
by Heleen De Grande
2025

Certificates & Training

Completion of DKO (part-time art education): Lower, Middle & Higher Levels:

Visual Arts, SABK Zottegem,
2006 – 2017
Cello, KUNSTacademie Wetteren
2009 – 2018


Animator Certificate,
Flemish Government

Animator at:
Kazou 2016 – 2021
Intersoc 2019 – 2021


Partial Certificate in Basic Cooking, Adult Education KISP (Gent)
2018 – 2019

Partial Certificate in Basic Photography A, Adult Education KISP (Gent)
2019

Employment
Job Student
Gent Jazz (Bijlokesite) Backstage artist & VIP support
2024 – 2025

Job Student
Mastel/Masté (Gent) 
Barista, cashier, 
culinary support
2021 – 2022

Job 
Albert Heijn (Ghelamco Arena) Retail Associate
2018 – 2019

Graphic Design   Borgerhoff & Lamberigts
Intern           2025


Education Intern

DvM Humaniora (Aalst) Arteveldehogeschool (Gent) Pirlewiet vzw Freinetmiddenschool (Gent)
2022

Sint-Paulusinstituut (Herzele)
2021

Mariagaard (Wetteren)
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WORK 


                             
                     


            

1.Cover Design for De Geus
    
This cover was selected through the open call Steek je nek uit by Het Geuzenhuis. The jury praised the collage of watercolours for its artistic value, poetic strength, and gentle approach to activism. The work avoids loud statements, instead balancing quietly between beauty and unease, shaped by careful observation of the world around us.
2025



2. Publications
 A selection of self-made publications, ranging from drawing-based booklets to text-driven works and hybrids of both. Each piece is entirely crafted by hand—writing, illustrating, designing, printing, and binding. Highlights include a reinterpretation of Machiavelli’s Il Principe, reshaped into poems addressed to Belgium’s Crown Princess Elisabeth, written in Dutch, French, or German depending on the chapter.
2024–2025


3. Exhibitions & Presentations Works presented during group exhibitions and presentations on the Bijloke site in Gent. These images document how publications, prints, and installations take on new lives in a shared space with viewers.
2024–2025

4. Cliona patera
 A publication inspired by the Neptune Cup from the GUM collection, created for the course Artscience, taught by Joost Rekveld. The project unfolds in four parts, reflecting on the idea of ‘truth’ in science. One of its sections gives the cup itself a voice through a fictional monologue, blurring the line between fact and imagination.
2025
                                                           

5. Zines for the Kunstenbibliotheek FestivalThree zines, each 20 pages, created within a single week for the Zine Festival at the Kunstenbibliotheek (Bijloke). Each zine reimagines a film—The Colour of Pomegranates, The Taste of Tea, and La Grande Bellezza—through drawings, rhythm, and handmade structures.
2025
 



6. Studio Practises
A glimpse into different working processes: etching with an Axidraw, printing monotypes from inked stones, laser-cutting acrylic mirrors, and preparing lithographic stones. The practise combines traditional techniques with experimental methods, always rooted in material exploration.
2025
                
7. Digital PostersA series of posters combining photography and digitised watercolours. Images and design come together in layered compositions that merge personal perspective with graphic precision.
2024–2025


8. Walk Away
Fragments from the publication Walk Away, a work about women caught in situations that confine them, yet striving to move forward. Through text and image, the book explores resilience, tension, and the desire for change.
2024







9. Works in Various TechniquesPieces created in a wide range of methods: airbrush, monotypes with printing ink, oil paint, wet-on-wet ink, drypoint and woodcut. These works highlight the diversity of graphic experiments and the continuous search for texture and rhythm.
2024–2025

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