MONARCQ is an independent creative practice founded by Mathieux Ngoie Kapaj and Helene Maes, shaping places, brands and cultural worlds with Presence.

Working across strategy, concept and creative direction, we originate ideas and bring together the disciplines and partners needed to give them form.

Our practice moves between self-initiated work and selected commissions. We create our own projects, objects and cultural works, while partnering with brands, hospitality, destinations and cultural institutions on ideas that benefit from our way of thinking.

We are not bound to a single medium. An idea may take shape through an experience, object, space, music, film, fashion or other forms of cultural expression.

At the centre of our thinking is Presence, the quality that allows certain places, objects and ideas to become more than their function and remain with people over time.

We believe Presence begins with clarity of intent and becomes powerful when culture, environment, identity, behaviour, craft and experience reinforce one another.

Our ambition is to conceive and bring into the world ideas with the potential to create lasting cultural, social and economic value.