Sébastien Hendrickx is a Belgian the­a­tre maker, dra­ma­turg, wri­ter, tea­cher and acti­vist. His work moves bet­ween per­for­man­ce, eco­lo­gy and soci­al chan­ge. At times the­se worlds blend in har­mo­ny, at other times they clash, and it is pre­ci­se­ly in tho­se fric­ti­ons that he see­ks artis­tic and socie­tal renewal.

After stu­dying Theatre Studies at Ghent University and Multimedia Arts at LUCA School of Arts, he wor­ked as a dra­ma­turg for com­pa­nies such as KVS, Toneelhuis and NTGent, col­la­bo­ra­ting with artists inclu­ding Benjamin Verdonck, Jozef Wouters, Thomas Bellinck, Heike Langsdorf, Ula Sickle, Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost, Luanda Casella and Alexander Vantournhout.

Hendrickx also esta­blis­hed himself as an art cri­tic, wri­ting for Etcetera, rekto:verso and De Witte Raaf. His essays ear­ned him the Marie Kleine Gartman Pen (2014) and the Basic Young Art Critic Prize (2016). Since 2013, he has been tea­ching at the dra­ma depart­ment of KASK School of Arts in Ghent, whe­re he chal­len­ges stu­dents to con­nect artis­tic prac­ti­ce with the rea­li­ties of soci­e­ty. His cur­rent research pro­ject (2022 – 2026) explo­res cos­mo­grams and eco­sy­s­tem-orien­ted storytelling.

As an acti­vist, he was a spo­kesper­son for Extinction Rebellion Belgium (2019 – 2022), ini­ti­a­ted Le Parlement Citoyen (2020) and co-foun­ded the Degrowth Propaganda Squad, a col­lec­ti­ve advo­ca­ting for post-growth futures.

Since 2019, Hendrickx has been devel­o­ping his own artis­tic tra­jec­to­ry. In The Good Life (2021), he asked what it means to live well in times of cri­sis. Moddertong (2022 – 2024) port­ray­ed a com­mu­ni­ty strug­gling through heat­wa­ves, balan­cing tra­ge­dy with come­dy. His most recent work, Palace of Justice (2025), reflects on power, the jus­ti­ce sys­tem and the sym­bo­lic weight of Brussels’ Palace of Justice.

Alongside his per­for­man­ces, he orga­ni­zes wri­ting rooms, silent walks and cos­mo­gram ses­si­ons, cre­a­ting spa­ces whe­re artists, sci­en­tists and citi­zens ima­gi­ne new ways of thin­king and living together.