BeCraft at Art Brussels 2025

Artist list

Cru Atelier, Joséphine Hazard, Patrick Jadot, Louise Limontas, Annick Tapernoux

To illustrate the relevance of the utilitarian as a catalyst of emotions but also a vector of meaning, BeCraft called on five member artists from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. On furniture designed for the occasion by Cru Atelier, they set out the table of craftsmanship, pointing out a reality and reminding us of the inescapable, in the manner of ancient still lifes. Unlike the days when it would have been fashionable to ask why so much luxury, it’s now urgent to ask why so much obsolescence and inanimate creations. Bringing an extra soul, focusing on the creative gesture and the creative nature - this is where artisan artists have a role to play.

By referencing this almost Déjeuner sur l’herbe, the designers are boldly inscribing themselves in history, inviting us to savor art, whatever it may be, as it should be savored. Taste it with the eyes, the touch and the mouth - visualize the prestigious gesture of the goldsmith with Annick Tapernoux; embrace the richness of old and new textile techniques condensed on Louise Limontas’ tablecloth, imagined for the event; with your fingertips, touch the rough texture of a zoomorphic vase by Joséphine Hazard; bring to your mouth the creamy softness of Patrick Jadot’s porcelain.

A feast of nature where utilitarian objects and works of art merge through the simple act of creation.

Since 1981, BeCraft has been the sole representative of contemporary applied arts in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The active work carried out by its team to promote Walloon and Brussels artists, perpetuate know-how through the transmission of knowledge and raise public awareness of the reality of contemporary applied arts is therefore fundamental.


OPENING DAY | 11.00 – 21.00 h.
Thursday 24.04.25
Preview | 11.00 – 16.00 h.
Opening | 16.00 – 21.00 h.

PUBLIC DAYS | 11.00 – 19.00 h.
Friday 25.04.25
Saturday 26.04.25
Sunday 27.04.25


About Cru Atelier
The professional careers of Cru Atelier (Sarah El Yousefy and Nina Ouchinsky) led them to become aware of the considerable impact of the construction sector on the environment. Faced with this realization, the collective embarked on a search for sustainable and responsible solutions. It was with this in mind that they discovered raw earth construction, and more specifically the rammed earth technique - an ancestral method with numerous environmental virtues. In particular, this technique makes it possible to recycle earth from excavations on Brussels construction sites, which is often regarded as waste, but which can find a second life in a circular approach.

About Joséphine Hazard
Joséphine Hazard draws her inspiration from the natural environment, and in particular from living forms. Having grown up in the French Pyrenees, she has developed a keen eye for observing a teeming ecosystem, in which every organism plays an essential role. This wealth of motifs and colors nourishes her plastic research, which she translates into biomorphic silhouettes - imaginary forms characterized by their emptiness.

About Patrick Jadot
How to translate the warmth of a bowl in the palm of your hands. The feel of fingers on a cup. The feel of a material. The transmission of a rhythm. A comforting curve. All the while leaving room for the personality of the material and the potter’s gestures. Patrick Jadot works in series with the same function, freeing himself from technical constraints and leaving room only for emotion and gesture. His main working tool remains the potter’s wheel, although many manipulations are carried out at a later date.

About Louise Limontas
With a background in textile design, Louise Limontas’ work is a research based on the misuse of materials and various craft and industrial techniques. Her work focuses on the body and the home through textiles, revealing the intimacy that unites them.
Using different motifs and materials, she creates surfaces, volumes, garment-objects or object-parures whose status and use become blurred and less identifiable. From this framework came the desire to integrate a participatory dimension, where exchange and sharing with others nourish her work. Through encounters, Louise Limontas interweaves fragments of stories and lived sensations, weaving together present and past, body and space, inert matter and its relationship to the living.

About Annick Tapernoux
Since childhood, Annick Tapernoux has nurtured a fascination for vanished civilizations. This sensitive view of objects and their narrative potential fully infuses her work: each piece she creates seems to emerge from a reinvented past, like a precious relic or a peaceful relic. Sentinels of an inner world, her objects and jewelry carry within them a form of serenity. Working mainly in silver, which she patiently hammers by hand, she shapes simple, uncluttered, almost timeless forms. The gesture is intuitive and tactile, in a delicate tension between the primitive and the contemporary. Metal becomes a surface, a vibrant material, an invitation to contemplation.