Lemmens Art Conservation offers specialized services in conservation and restoration of plastics, versatile materials that have become essential in modern and contemporary art. Our approach combines technical-scientific expertise and artistic sensitivity to preserve artworks composed, for example, of polyurethane foam, rubber, polyester resin, PMMA or plasticized PVC:

• In-depth examination of the work and assessment of its conservation condition
• Development of a treatment protocol adapted to the specific needs of the work
• Implementation of preventive conservation protocols

Thanks to our expertise, we contribute to the safeguarding of plastic works while respecting their integrity, meaning, values and the artist's intention. Each intervention is rigorously documented and based on up-to-date research. We collaborate with museums, collectors and institutions internationally.

Our condition reports are formal digital documents that provide a comprehensive record of an artwork’s state of conservation at a specific point in time. Each report captures a detailed technical description of the object, noting any observed damage, signs of deterioration, and evidence of prior conservation or restoration treatments. To support these observations, we include quality photographic documentation and diagrams for greater visual clarity. The reports also outline recommended treatments and preventive conservation measures, covering aspects such as handling, transport, storage, and exhibition, to ensure the long-term preservation of the artwork. Condition reports serve multiple critical functions:

• Establishing a baseline before and after conservation or restoration, exhibition, loan, or transport.
• Assisting in damage assessment, liability negotiations, and insurance procedures.
• Developing future conservation or restoration strategies and ensuring traceability of changes over time.

The team also acts as a courier for loans and works on exhibition projects.

With over 30 years of experience and hundreds of paintings restored for the high-end art market and leading museums, the painting restoration department is the core of the studio.

• Expertise on modern and contemporary materials
• Solutions for complex and experimental cases
• Respect for fundamental principles: integrity, stability, reversibility

Our team meets the challenges of new materials, techniques, and supports, maintaining a high level of quality and innovation in restoration.

Paper and photography are fragile media, especially in modern and contemporary art. Our specialized team takes on this challenge with passion, combining traditional technique and experimental methodology.

• Restoration of graphic works on paper, cardboard, papier-mâché
• Conservation and restoration of photographs, all materials and techniques

We offer effective and innovative solutions for the preservation of these works, taking into account their great material diversity.

Contemporary sculpture uses a wide variety of materials: stone, bronze, wood, plastics, glass, ceramics, textiles, papers, alloys, organic materials, ephemeral media…

• Restoration of sculptures in an adapted workshop or on-site interventions
• Ability to adapt and respond in an inventive and creative manner
• Mobile team for on-site interventions

Our team is able to undertake the most complex restoration projects thanks to its expertise and specialized equipment.

The conservation-restoration of media/technological arts regularly confronts the restorer with unprecedented new challenges: analog or digital works, mechanical or electronic, objects, machines, software, mixed materials…

• Management of technological obsolescence and original components
• Documentation, conservation, emulation, migration of works
• Preservation of the authenticity and integrity of time-based works

Thanks to its dedicated department and a network of specialized experts, the studio assists with the storage, restoration, and documentation of media/technological works.

Graduated in painting restoration from UB | Universidad de Barcelona (Spain), Nicolas specialized in modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. He began his career as a restorer in 1989 at Studio Jesús Marull in Barcelona. He then participated in creating the conservation-restoration departments of IVAM | Institut Valencià d'Art Modern and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. In 1997, he moved to Brussels and founded the first studio specialized in contemporary art in Belgium. From 1997 to 2000, he worked as a restorer at the Museum of Modern Art of Belgium. Today, Nicolas also regularly intervenes in writing condition reports before purchasing artworks on behalf of major private collections.

Francesca graduated from the Dresden University of Fine Arts, specialising in the conservation and restoration of paintings. She has worked with institutions including BOZAR, KIK-IRPA, SRAL in Maastricht, and the Old National Gallery in Berlin, where she contributed to the restoration of Caspar David Friedrich’s Monk by the Sea and Abbey in the Oakwood (2013–2016), resulting in several publications. In 2016, she joined the Nicolas Lemmens Studio and founded the Condition Reports & Preventive Conservation department, which she continues to lead. Her team focuses on condition assessments, selecting conservation materials, developing packing and transport solutions, and evaluating storage and exhibition environments. Francesca regularly prepares condition reports for acquisitions, sales, international loans, and exhibitions, and acts as a courier for artworks. When possible, she restores modern and contemporary paintings and collaborates on multidisciplinary projects, maintaining a balance between preventive and active conservation practices.

Marina obtained her first Bachelor's degree in Painting Restoration from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Her final thesis focused on the conservation of adhesive tape. In 2012, thanks to the Erasmus program, she studied for a year at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she began to approach the world of paper and photography restoration; at the end of this experience, she decided to deepen these subjects within the framework of a five-year Master's degree in Cultural Heritage Restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In 2018, she graduated. Her final thesis focused on the restoration and mounting of large-format cinema posters; this thesis was immediately the subject of an official publication. In parallel, she conducted research on a coating process that avoids the use of humidity, heat and pressure. This process, already used for smaller pieces, was also successful for giant artworks. During her studies, Marina participated in workshops, seminars and internships. Particularly noteworthy is the internship at ICCROM, which includes the SOIMA course in Accra (Ghana) on the conservation of audiovisual material, and a work collaboration at IRP (Instituto Universitario de Restauración del Patrimonio) in Valencia. The internship at the National Central Library of Florence was also very interesting. Marina restored the flooded books related to the Florence floods of 1966. Finally, in 2019, she began her collaboration with Nicolas Lemmens Studio, satisfying her passion for contemporary art, working with a multidisciplinary and highly qualified team.

Inge graduated in easel painting restoration from IFAPME (Belgium). She studied art at Saint-Luc Brussels and has been immersed in the art world for many years. Inge notably worked for six years in the public auction house Pierre Bergé et Associés (Brussels). For many years, Inge has specialized in the restoration of materialist paintings. She is also in charge of maintaining outdoor sculptures.

Graduated in conservation and restoration of artworks from Centro de Estudios de Restauración de Obras de Arte (CEROA) in Madrid (Spain) and graduated in Art History from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She specialized in painting restoration on different supports (canvas, wood, copper and mural painting). For several years, she worked in her "Recuper Arte" studio in Madrid for private clients, foundations (Fundación de Arte Coca-Cola), art galleries and auction houses (Castellana Subastas, Subastas Goya). Among her works, we particularly note interventions on works by Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Maurice Utrillo and Spanish artists such as Oscar Domínguez, Joaquim Sunyer, Antoni Clavé, Luis Feito or Antonio Saura. She also has experience with national public museums in Spain, such as the Museo Naval de Madrid or the Museo del Ejército. Passionate about art and restoration since always, and after collaborating with some art galleries in Brussels (Dvir Gallery, E²/Sterput), she joined Nicolas Lemmens' team in March 2019.

Graduated with a Master II in conservation-restoration of contemporary artworks from ESA Saint-Luc Liège (Belgium), Aurélie is specialized in plastics, glass and ceramics. She devoted her thesis and publications to the issue of PMMA (Plexiglas) gluing. After her studies, she started as a freelancer within institutions and private collections in France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Since 2014, she has been in charge of the study and conservation-restoration of plastic works at Lemmens Art Conservation studio. From polyester resin to elastomers, through polyurethane foams, she meets the challenges posed by the diversity of these materials. She also participates in multidisciplinary projects in the service of composite works treatment.

Graduated from ENSAV La Cambre in Conservation-Restoration of Paintings, Régis Decroos is specialized in the conservation of contemporary works integrating technology: light art, kinetic art and computer-based media. With experience at Galerie Almine Rech, the Boghossian Foundation, KANAL – Centre Pompidou and Hizkia, he combines material, electronic and computer expertise with a preventive and analytical approach to new media. He develops the Media/Technological Arts department of Studio Lemmens.

Graduated in management secretariat and trained in business management at Solvay PME in Brussels, Cécile Flamand gained her experience in the cultural and artistic world where she has been working since 2005. For more than seven years, Cécile was in charge of administration and production for the dance company of Claudio Bernardo, dancer and choreographer. In October 2016, she joined the Nicolas Lemmens Studio team.

Laura graduated in 2009 from Palazzo Spinelli in Florence as a technician specializing in the restoration of paintings on canvas and panel. She also worked in the Dambra Restauri studio in Florence. Subsequently in Turin, she obtained a master's degree in conservation and restoration of cultural heritage with a specialization in stone materials and stone derivatives. She also wrote a thesis on the reassembly using pins of a marble sculpture representing Venus. In Belgium, she completed an internship at IRPA in the stone materials laboratory, during which she participated in the important restoration project of the choir of the Grand Sablon church. Subsequently, she collaborated with various Belgian companies on various construction sites and independently handled the restoration of the statue collection of the Annevoie Gardens and the war memorials of the First and Second World War located on the Grand Place of Courtrai. Laura is passionate about funerary art, art authentication, and construction site organization.

Graduated from ENSAV | La Cambre in paper restoration, Valérie completed her training with internships in European museum restoration workshops (including the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the British Museum in London). For several years, she collaborated on research projects with the IRPA | Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique laboratory in Brussels. She has been working in Belgium and France for institutions, museums, FRAC | Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, and private collections since 1997. She is specialized in graphic art, paper objects, cardboard and papier-mâché.

Jolien obtained her master's degree in conservation and restoration of paintings from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2018. From her third year of bachelor's degree, she began studying and restoring contemporary paintings. During her studies, she attended a summer training at Palazzo Spinelli in Florence, Italy, for the restoration of paintings on canvas and panel. After her studies, she gained multidisciplinary experience for five years by participating in the restoration of various historical interiors in Belgium. Thus, she notably contributed to the conservation and restoration of marouflages, paintings and polychrome finishes at the Antwerp City Hall. In addition, she has experience in preventive conservation of artworks thanks to her internship in the depot of Museum M in Leuven, as well as the recording, conservation and transport of various heritage collections. Due to her passion for contemporary and modern art, and the associated challenges, she joined Nicolas Lemmens' studio.

Graduated in photography restoration from IFROA | Institut de Formation des Restaurateurs des Œuvres d'Art – Paris, (France). After working as a photographer at C2RMF | Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France at the Louvre Museum, Annie is dedicated to photography restoration. Since 1994, she has been practicing in France and Belgium for contemporary art museums (including the Museum of Modern Art of Saint-Etienne, the Abattoirs in Toulouse, the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, Musée Nicéphore-Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône), several FRAC | Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, the FNAC | Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the MEP | Maison Européenne de la Photographie and private collections.