The CHE Agents are professionals, experts in the creative and cultural field. ‘CHE’ stands for Creative Hub Euregio, a trans-regional and cross-border network of creative professionals and initiatives actively working in the cultural, artistic or political scenes, within the Meuse-Rhine Euregio. In Maastricht, our colleague Ronja Terwindt, represent the Che agents, but who are the CHE agents across the Euregio, and what expertise do they have? Let’s discover them together.
BENJAMIN FLEIG / CHE AGENT – EASTBELGIUM
Benjamin Fleig is an ex-artist, gallery owner, cultural manager, shaper, presenter and speaker.
Benjamin Fleig started off as a cameraman in Babelsberg – Eurotrash, film and TV business -, shifted to documentary (‘still doing this as an old flame never dies’), and then became a media artist and started teaching media studies.
He built up, and currently managed, PAN kunstforum niederrhein, develops and produces international art projects as a freelance curator for museums, galleries, art festivals, cultural associations, works on socio-cultural projects which are focused on city development, and promotes creative initiatives.
He is also a gallery owner, art consultant, and the founder AHE – Atelierhaus Eupen.
PABLO HANNON / CHE AGENT – HASSELT & GENK BELGIUM
Pablo Hannon is a multidisciplinary designer with a practice in graphic, illustrative and interior design. Educator, designer and artist, he connects practice and play to work with a desire to collaborate, an urge to share and to have a positive impact in Society.
Creating a free zone for students and seniors, locals and internationals, a basecamp to start interactions with the city and its inhabitants and researching its possible improvements, Pablo Hannon developed The School in Hasselt in 2017. The School is an ‘urban-city experiment’ – a non-profit post-academic and ongoing multidisciplinary organisation, that examines social improvements in the city and in education. Within The School his role is that of a moderator, project developer and strategist.
Pablo also guides bachelor and master students in 4 academies: PXL-MAD (Interactive design), LUCA Genk (Photography), ZUYD MAMDT (photography and illustration), and ZUYD MAFAD (Intercultural Media, Artistic Matters).
JULIE HANIQUE / CHE AGENT – LIÈGE BELGIUM
Julie Hanique studied Art History in Liege and has been extremely active in the cultural field and associations working in this city for 20 years.
Julie Hanique is the coordinator of the Comptoir des Ressources Créatives (CRC). The CRC is a platform of tools for and by creators, which provides work spaces and relies on field experience to pool resources and energies in order to build collective, mutual or cooperative solutions that respect the uniqueness of each individual. It promotes shared knowledge and enables networking among creators from all disciplines.
Julie Hanique, also a member of the Superior Council of Culture for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, is especially interested in supporting collective projects focused on connecting people, and ideas, working in different fields and regions.
JO DELANNOY / CHE AGENT – LIÈGE BELGIUM
Jo Delannoy is a screenprinter and illustrator based in Liege. In 2019, he was awarded a Master degree in Illustration and Engraving at the Fine Arts of Liege. Developing his artistic practice, he regularly participates in both personal and collective exhibitions, or makers market. He also works as on various commissions, among which posters for festivals, theaters, cultural institutions.
Jo Delannoy is a project manager for the Comptoir des Ressources Créatives (CRC).
PATRICIA YASMINE GRAF / CHE AGENT – AACHEN GERMANY
Since 2015 Patricia is one of the official CHE agents of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion.
Patricia Yasmine Graf is a freelance product and jewellery designer from Aachen, Germany.
Having graduated in 2001 from Design Academy Maastricht, in the Netherlands, she founded her own brand PYG® for bags, furniture and accessories in 2003, which has a worldwide distribution network.
In 2005, Patricia Yasmine Graf co-founded the Euregional Creative Network designmetropole aachen, with the objective of making Aachen an attractive area, while building awareness within the local population, industry and politics of the strong and not-to-be-ignored design potential in the region. She is also one of three founders and visionaries of HOTEL TOTAL – a creative and social concept and network conversion research project, which was part of the programme CreateMedia.NRW (2016).
Since 2011, Patricia Yasmine Graf has had various university teaching positions for design and engineering courses at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen.
FABIAN SEIBERT / CHE AGENT – AACHEN GERMANY
Having graduated in product and jewellery design at the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Fabian Seibert is one of the founders of designmetropole aachen and an artist, the CEO and Founder of Hello design tour, since 2016.
He is also the owner of Sülzkottlett since 2005, where he deals with brand, concept, design, and product development for different labels. He applies his expertise to web concepts, textiles, user products, and user products as a guerilla marketing specialist.
As a product and jewellery designer, Fabian Seibert runs his own latex fashion company TARZA & JANE.
