This was conceived of as a contemporaneous reflection on the role the 'studio' in art and a tribute to the history of famous artist studio's in Antwerp of which van Dyck's and Peter-Paul Rubens are the most prominent examples.
She fulfilled this aim by setting up a series of exceptional projects that were carried out in defunct office spaces throughout the city of Antwerp.
[4] These culminated and merged in 'Laboratorium', a large-scale interdisciplinary exhibition-project "in which the scientific laboratory and the artist's studio were explored on the basis of the various concepts and disciplines".
[5] It brought together the work of sixty-six artists and scientists devoted to research and experimentation and was co-curated by Barbara Vanderlinden and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
These and other questions were the beginning of an interdisciplinary project starting from the 'workplace' where artists and scientist experiment and work freely.