Magalie Delbeke is a Belgian textile designer, artist, and teacher whose practice unfolds through hands-on research, installation, and performance. Working across analogue and digital textile processes, she explores how textiles can shape lived experiences of body, space, and the environments we inhabit. Rather than treating textiles as surfaces, she approaches them as spatial and relational structures that reconnect people, materials, and place.
Alongside her artistic practice, Magalie worked as a textile and fashion designer and material engineer in the interior and fashion industries. This experience continues to inform her work, questioning boundaries across production methods, craft knowledge, and textile-specific ecological challenges. Research develops alongside her ever-continuing dialogue with artists, students, communities, and industry professionals.
Throughout several years Magalie Delbeke has been teaching in different departments at KASK School of Arts in Ghent (BE): Textile Design, Interior Design, and Autonomous Design Department. She currently teaches at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (BE) and at KABK. Here she’s part of the Textile and Fashion Department teaching knitting since 2025 and is a Commons teacher as of 2026.