He graduated in Videoart at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, a Flemish language art school in Brussels, Belgium. His entire career was connected with theater. His first work was as lighting professional was in the play The Cement Garden, in 1983. From then on, over the course of 25 years, he engaged in several collaborations with the theater director Guy Cassiers. These collaborations include: Wasp Factory, Sunken Red, Rage d`Amour and Onegin, among others. In 1994 he founded the Filmfabriek studio alongside Anne Quiryen and Anne Heyman, with activities based on the intersections of digital art and performance. A few years later the artists Wies Hermans, Bram Smeyers, Kurt d’Haeseleer and Ief Spincemaille, joined the group. He gradually migrated from digital art to theater direction, culminating in his directing of Phillip Glass’ opera Kepler, in 2010. He has specialized in directing contemporary operas and performances. He is a performing arts professor at the Toneelacademie Maastricht, in Maastricht, Netherlands.