Julie Janssens

Ph.Pillaerts

From the Kingdom of Artwerp

Born: summer of ‘69

Based in: Antwerp, Belgium

Contact: julie.j1@hotmail.com 

Instagram: @ph.pillaerts

Artistic signature: Let Art Be Your Drug

Artist Statement

Where science dissolves into emotion, my art begins.

With a background in pharmacology, my art explores the boundary between science, emotion, and beauty. In an age of overstimulation and quick fixes, i try to redefine the language of healing.

Each work embodies a reflection on health, consciousness, and the delicate chemistry between body and mind. I always keep an ecological mindset in the background, striving to convey a powerful MESSAGE (a MEntal maSSAGE) through my work.

Through capsules, symbolic materials, and refined design, I transform medicine into metaphor , a visual therapy for the modern world.

Selected Exhibitions

Saint-Martens-Latem (Belgium), Group exhibition

Antwerp City, Group exhibition

Paul Smith Store, Antwerp, Solo presentation (two-month exhibition)

Cadix hospital (Antwerp), with health-futurist Koen Kas

De Koolputten, Waasmunster, Group exhibition

Thomas Gallery, Antwerp, Group exhibition

Kasteel van Schoten, Group exhibition

Royal Pharmacists Association Antwerp, Solo presentation

Publications

• Featured in Sabato (art & lifestyle magazine, Belgium)

Education & Background

• Master in Pharmacology

• Founder and head pharmacist of “Ph. Pillaerts , From the Kingdom of Artwerp”, blending science, design, and emotion

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