Hanne Schonkeren

Hanne Schonkeren (*1995) obtained a bachelor’s degree in jewelry design and goldsmithing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Later on, she received her master’s degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in art studies and archaeology where she combined goldsmithing and archaeology through the remaking of an early medieval fibula. This thesis was awarded the Thierry Stanley Beherman Prize (2022). Currently, she is working for the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO) on a Ph.D. project that investigates sixteenth-century Antwerp gold and silversmithing through the innovative method of Reconstruction, Replication, and Re-enactment, under the supervision of prof. Pieter Martens (VUB), prof. Tine Meganck (VUB) and prof. Sven Dupré (UU).