Ief Spincemaille creates sculptures that can be used, worn, interacted with and experienced. They function as systems of exchange between humans, space, and objects.

Spincemaille activates his work outside traditional exhibition contexts, such as schools, neighbourhoods, prisons, factories, and other social spaces, seeking lively interaction with audiences and confronting art with worlds and people often far removed from it. As relations are essential to this work, bringing together different worlds and people enriches the relations, the meanings that emerge from them, and ultimately the work of art itself.

Spincemaille’s work operates at the crossroads of people, technology, and nature. It redirects our attention toward human interaction, analogue technologies, and the sublime in nature.

This website showcases viewing instruments that directly engage with perception and light, and sculptures that function as mediators and directly visualize the relations they produce between object, viewer, and context.
 
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Wiels (Belgium), Kasteel van Gaasbeek (Belgium), Guangzhou Biennale (China), Biennale des Arts Numériques (France), Nova Biennial (Brazil), Ars Electronica (Austria and Tokyo), Boxes Art Museum (China), OK Center (Linz), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam), Felix De Boeck Museum (Belgium), Opéra de Paris (France), and the Festival de Marseille (France), among others.

His atelier is based in Leuven (Ateliers Minnoye).

In 2010, Kurt D'Haeseleer and Spincemaille founded Werktank, an organization dedicated to new and old media art.  www.werktank.org