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Lieze Vanlerberghe
Temporary Installations // Interior Design

KASK School of Arts Ghent

Graduates: 2022

Specialisms: Interior Design

My location: Ghent, Belgium

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KASK School of Arts Ghent

Lieze Vanlerberghe

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First Name: Lieze

Last Name: Vanlerberghe

University / College: KASK School of Arts Ghent

Course / Program: Temporary Installations // Interior Design

Graduates: 2022

Specialisms: Interior Design

My Location: Ghent, Belgium

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About

Dear My name is Lieze Vanlerberghe and I’m agraduate Interior Design and temporary Installation at the KASK & conservatorium, School of Arts Ghent. I’ve always had a big interest in the world of architectural design. Since I was little I went to the art academy every Saturday to let my creativity go its way. This was the moment where my artistic background became the main part of my life. I began studying Architectural and Interior Art in Bruges in High School. When I had to choose which topic I wanted to study for university, I didn’t have to think long. I wanted to study Interior design and become an interior architect.

A parasitic blue life taking over Estonia's dark history. I remember Estonia during my Erasmus as a place where people were building a completely new life. However, the scars left by the Soviet Union are still visible. I stumbled upon this impressive site, in the middle of nature, about 40 km from Tallinn. Only 50 years ago, Rummu Prison was a former labor camp where limestone was hewn from the ground. In 1991, when the Soviet fell, the quarry was abandoned, and the locks were opened. The quarry filled up with water, too soon to save all the materials present. It seems that the prison was abandoned abruptly from one day to the next. The feeling you get at the site is indescribable. When I returned in the winter months, the fierceness of it all hit me. Everything was snowy and looked cold and quiet. Suddenly, history emerged almost literally. That experience inspired me enormously. My eye fell on a typical communist building that stood right on the edge of the lake. I tried to create a new life that runs through the heavy foundations of the prison. An ingenious staircase system that moves very fragile through the openings. Just as I experienced, the country is on the rise. In this way, I did not want the "new life" to touch the heavy walls that symbolize dark history. Throughout the walk, you experience the surroundings from different perspectives. This project is very personal and emotional. After all, I was happy to pay a last tribute to Estonia.