Louis Vanhaverbeke
Director
Louis Vanhaverbeke (Ghent, 1988, he/him) has a keen interest in the clash of lifestyles and subcultures. He thinks of music not only as a way to express himself, but also as a means in his search for identity. As a teenager he switched back and forth between rapper attitude and wannabe rock star. By remixing different ambitions, he developed a very particular vocabulary: freestyle, hard to classify, but very intelligible.
Louis Vanhaverbeke graduated in 2010 from the atelier Mixed Media of Sint-Lucas Ghent (now LUCA), and in 2014 from SNDO, Amsterdam. He mainly creates performances and installations. Objects are crucial in his research. Plastic things, drum computers, little chariots and all sorts of other colourful gear are used to assemble his very agile performances (from The Car Piece over Kokito to The Bike Piece and Kokokito). Furthermore, he examines which kinds of spoken word may help him unfold complex ways of thinking. Through slamming, scatting and rhyming, he attempts to question his spot in the world.
In 2010, Louis participated in the Mayday Mayday Festival as a student. This encounter with CAMPO resulted in the creation of Kokokito, which earned him the Circuit X Award at TAZ#2015. He toured internationally with the warmly received MULTIVERSE (2016) and Mikado Remix (2018). In May 2026, his latest solo performance, Tractor Rapsodie, premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts. In this production (LOD Muziektheater), the boundaries between agriculture, music, and performance blur as he searches for solid ground and reconnection following a period of reflection on the land.
