Youqine Lefèvre (1993, CN) is a Belgian lens-based artist of Asian descent currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. Her artistic practice combines photography, archival material, moving image, research and text, and explores the relationship between the intimate and the political.

Through individual narratives, both her own and those of others, she seeks to locate the personal within a wider collective framework, tracing how family structures, memory, and emotional bonds are formed, strained, and transformed under conditions of political and social pressure. With a strong interest in sociology, her work brings a critical yet deeply sensitive lens to these questions, attending to what is often left unspoken in the spaces between the individual and the world they inhabit.

Her work has been exhibited at FOMU (Antwerp, BE), The Photographers’ Gallery (London, UK), the Centre de la Photographie Genève (Geneva, CH), Photo Elysée (Lausanne, CH), and Photoforum PasquArt (Biel/Bienne, CH). She published her first photobook with The Eriskay Connection (NL, 2022), which was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Award 2022.

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Education


2018-2020    Master in Visual Arts / Photography, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, BE
2014-2016    Higher education in photography, School of Applied Arts (CEPV), Vevey, first prize, CH
2011-2014     Bachelor in Visual Arts / Photography, School of Graphic Research (ERG), Brussels, BE


Solo exhibitions

2026 L’image Satellite, Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre, Nice, FR, upcoming
2022 L’image sans nom, Liège, BE
2017 Prix Focale — Ville de Nyon, Galerie-Librairie Focale, Nyon, CH


Selected group shows

2026 Miroir, Miroir, Biennale de l’Image Possible (BIP), Liège, BE, upcoming
2026 Family Matters, FOMU, Antwerp, BE
2025 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Danish Cultural Center, Beijing, CN
2024 Pop Up, Contretype, Brussels, BE
2024 When Images Take Care, Centre de la Photographie de Genève, Geneva, CH
2024 Meditations on Love, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, UK
2023 Young Artists Prize of the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Brussels, BE
2023 22nd Biennal Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, BR
2022 Festival de l’Image de Stavelot, Stavelot, BE
2022 Les femmes s’exposent, Houlgate, FR
2022 European Trails, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg, DE
2021 Talent Wall, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven, NL
2021 Le Fusée de la Motographie 2.0., Antwerp, BE
2021 .tiff #9, FOMU, Antwerp, BE
2020 reGeneration4, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, CH
2020 Looking for Serendipity, curated by Iris Sikking, KASK, Ghent, BE
2018 Childhood, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, PL
2018    Bourse du Talent, Maison de la Photographie de Lille, Lille, FR
2018    Propositions d'artistes, Contretype, Brussels, BE
2017     Bourse du Talent, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, FR
2017     Bourse du Talent, 7th Dali International Photography Exhibition, Dali, CN
2017     VFG young talents, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, DE
2017     Des mondes meilleurs, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Espace Nonante-Neuf, Arles, FR
2017     VFG young talents, Uno Art Space, Stuttgart, DE
2016     VFG young talents, l'ELAC at l'ECAl, Renens, CH
2016     SELECTION|AUSWAHL, Photoforum PasquArt, Bienne/Biel, CH
2016     VFG young talents, Oslo 8, Basel, CH
2016     VFG young talents, Photobastei, Zürich, CH
2016     Des mondes meilleurs, Festival Images, CEPV, Vevey, CH
2016     Festival Voies Off, Les rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR


Awards & grants

2026 Satellite Prize, L’image Satellite, FR
2026 SOFAM grant, BE
2025 Creation support grant, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, BE
2025 Grant for an international artistic residency, Wallonia-Brussels International, BE
2025 C/O Berlin Talent Award, nominated, DE
2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Exhibition, winner, UK
2023 Young Artists Prize of the Parliament of Wallonia-Brussels Federation, finalist, BE
2023 Fintro Prize, Film and Photography category, finalist, BE
2023 Grant for an international artistic residency, Wallonia-Brussels International, BE
2022 Women Photographers Grant, Phmuseum, special mention, IT
2022 Paris Photo - Aperture PhotoBook Awards, First PhotoBook, shortlisted, US
2022 Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, special mention, CH
2021 LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY BOOK AWARD ARLES, shortlisted, FR
2021 Publication support grant, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, BE
2021 MACK First Book Award, shortlisted, UK
2021 Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Newcomer category, nominated, DE
2020 Documentary Photography grant, SOFAM, laureate, BE
2020 .tiff, FOMU, selected, BE
2020 Horlait-Dapsens Prize, KASK / School of Arts Ghent, laureate, BE
2020 Kassel Dummy Award, third prize, DE
2020 reGeneration4, Musée de l’Elysée, selected, CH
2019 Pitch your photo project, De Donkere Kamer #19, first prize, BE
2017    Propositions d'artistes, Contretype, selected, BE
2017     Prix Focale - Ville de Nyon, laureate, CH
2017     Bourse du Talent #70 Portrait, laureate, FR
2016     Prix PhotoforumPasquArt, SELECTION|AUSWAHL, laureate, CH
2016     VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis, finalist, CH
2016     Festival Voies Off, selected, FR


Books

2022 The Land of Promises, The Eriskay Connection


Residencies

2027 Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR, upcoming
2026 Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, SG
2025 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JP
2023 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JP


Collections

Musée de la Photographie (library), Charleroi, BE
FOMU, Antwerp, BE
The Photographers’ Gallery (library), London, UK
Rossicontemporary, Brussels, BE
Institut pour la Photographie (library), Lille, FR
MACK (library), London, UK
Photo Élysée, Lausanne, CH
City of Nyon, CH

 
Selected publications

M le Monde
British Journal of Photography
Trigger magazine
Médor magazine
REVUE MACARONI
VICE
i-D
Konbini
L'oeil de la photographie
Fisheye Magazine