Wim Cuyvers

Wim Cuyvers is an architect, artist and essayist. As a researcher of informal public space, he realised several installations in public spaces over the past decades. As an affiliated artist, he published the artist publications L’Autre (2020), DE-AD (2022) and RES NULLIUS (2025) with MASEREEL. Since 2009, he has worked as a forestier on and at Le Montavoies in the French Jura.

At the invitation of RHIZOMA, Wim Cuyvers created a semi-permanent, site-specific installation. On a triangular plot between a new district and wooded strips, Wim Cuyvers installed a temporary wooden structure: Dug-Outs – Primitive Hut. Made from locally felled pine and roofed with reclaimed slates, the work explores the idea of ‘primitive huts’ in architectural history.

The structure features two rows of six benches with partitions and a sloping roof, each offering a unique frame of people waiting. It’s not meant for shelter, but to display thinking and observation, with the natural warping of the untreated wood part of its expression.

After RHIZOMA 2025, Dug-Outs – Primitive Hut will remain publicly accessible and part of the streetscape.

A related project that arose from RHIZOMA as well was the release of the new publication RES NULLIUS (2025), for which Cuyvers also produced an edition in MASEREEL’s studio.

Dug-Outs – Primitieve Hut (2025)
Architectural installation, wood, slates
12.70 x 3.6 x 3 m