Bernadette Mergaerts

Bernadette Mergaerts (BE) is a photographer/geographer who successively worked at Apple Computer, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and as the personal photographer and chief of protocol of former Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. She is based in Brussels but works half of her time in Greece, Spain and France. Mergaerts combines commissioned visual communication projects with her activities as a visual artist and her work as lecturer. She loves to create in close collaboration with writers, musicians and dancers. She is a ‘walker’ and avoids using cars. Mergaerts exhibited her work in Brussels, Paris, Corfu, Palma de Mallorca, Paxos, Roubaix and Montreuil, and was part of a group exhibition in Arles in 2019.