CORE Festival
Curatorial partner for digital art on the NABO stage
PLUS-ONE Projects collaborated with CORE Festival (by Tomorrowland and Live Nation) as the curatorial partner for digital art on the NABO by Bonsai stage, positioned at the heart of the festival. Together with A.P./Studio and the festival team, we shape a curated open‑air digital art line‑up and a central installation that functions as both visual landmark and gathering point for visitors.
Our role spaned advisory, curation, and artist + production management, working closely with artists; Walter Wathieu, Victor Verhelst, Nicholas William Johnson, Tabor Robak and Jonas Lund, as well as collaborating galleries like Super Dakota and production partners Prismax and Pixelscreen.
The 360‑degree LED wall surrounding the NABO stage became an immersive canvas where digital artworks, music and architecture merged into a single experience.
In this collaboration, PLUS-ONE operated as a hub for digital and emerging technologies, storytelling and art‑architectural integrations, aligning visual communication with the wider narrative of CORE Festival. We helped Tomorrowland integrate curated digital art into its festival story, creating a space where cutting‑edge visuals, sound and audience encounter reinforce one another rather than compete.
Artists
Walter Wathieu
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Thomas De Ben (b. 1988) is a Belgian curator and cultural strategist based in Antwerp and Ghent.
With a background in visual arts and a sharp eye for contemporary culture, Thomas navigates the evolving landscape between art, technology, and design. As co-founder of PLUS-ONE Projects and A.P./Studio in Antwerp, he explores new curatorial formats that rethink the conventional gallery model... interdisciplinary, hybrid, and future-facing.
Thomas’ practice is driven by a desire to articulate new frameworks for artistic production and presentation. Rooted in both artistic experimentation and cultural strategy, his approach is content-led and collaborative, always responsive to the urgencies of the time. Rather than reinforcing fixed categories, he seeks out friction zones, spaces where artistic, technological, and cultural languages meet and generate new narratives.
Over the past fifteen years, Thomas has worked with a wide range of national and international artists, institutions, galleries, brands, and cultural clients to develop innovative projects across media and disciplines. His strength lies in shaping meaningful trajectories: from concept development and visual strategy to the creation of platforms that support artistic research and experimentation.
Victor Verhelst
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Charlotte Jonckheer (b. 1988) is a Belgian designer and artist based in Antwerp.
Her practice comprises objects for the interior, design concepts, and material research, resulting in functional and autonomous work with a strong focus on materiality - particularly through the use of paper.
By exploring paper’s lifecycle, she investigates its potential both as physical substance and metaphor. In 2018, she developed her own material - the ‘Chaud Paper Composite’- a combination of paper waste, sourced from a local printshop, and stone dust. This composite became the basis for a range of works created out of an intuitive and iterative research process. Through the reuse of her own material waste, her approach aligns with principles of circularity, underscoring paper’s dual role: as physical substance and indicator of time.
Charlotte’s pieces are made in small editions or as unique works, ranging from self-initiated objects to site-specific commissions. Rooted in a deep appreciation for materiality and craftsmanship, her projects, which bridge various disciplines, are realized in close collaboration with craftsmen, engineers, and manufacturers.
Her work has been exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts (Lille), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), and Design Museum Gent, and featured at major design events. She was a finalist for Vitrine pour un designer (2016) and won a Wallpaper* Design Award in 2021. In 2022, she realized a textile and light installation for De Sibbe (an artwork commissioned by Atelier MA+P for Emmaüs).
In 2018, she co-founded BRUT, a collective of Belgian designers that won the Henry van de Velde Gold Award for Young Talent (2019). Together, they exhibited at Bozar Brussels, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Design Museum Gent, and Salone del Mobile.
Nicholas William Jonhson
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Tabor Robak
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Jonas Lund
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