Carl's family

Charline Mahy

Carl's mother · Painter · co-creator of the Truc-Troc

"My father passed on his creativity to me, my mother the taste for culture," Carl De Moncharline told Le Soir in 2003. Charline Mahy, a painter, imagined with sculptor Mon De Rijck the very first Truc-Troc, presented as a world first at Château Malou in 1975.

Mon De Rijck

Mon De Rijck, Carl's father · Sculptor · co-creator of the Truc-Troc

Mon De Rijck, a sculptor, imagined with painter Charline Mahy the very first Truc-Troc, presented as a world first at Château Malou in 1975. Carl was born De Rijck; followed by the media from his first public actions, he chose a name that tells his origins: De Moncharline, the contraction of his dad's first name, Mon, and his mum's, Charline - literally, Carl comes "from Mum and Dad". "I owe them everything: my father passed on his creativity, my mother the taste for culture," he sums up. The Truc-Troc, relaunched at Bozar from 2004, extends the idea his parents imagined in 1975.

Joan De Rijck

Carl's sister · Stylist, fashion designer & costume maker

After a year at the Antwerp Academy, followed by a three-year course in fashion design at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels and two years at the Nebeling Academy in Brussels, Joan De Rijck was hired by several Belgian companies as a stylist: trend research, model design, colour-range research and production follow-up. In 1998, she won the ModoBruxellae stylists' track 'public prize'. She developed her own label 'joan de rijk', a collection of knitted accessories for women, men and children. In 2015, she opened Les Brusseloises, a boutique dedicated to Belgian design, together with her brother Carl De Moncharline, in the Sablon district of Brussels.

Maud De Rijck

Carl's sister · Architect & jewellery maker

Based in Brussels, Maud De Rijck is an architect and jewellery maker. Trained in architecture at La Cambre and in jewellery at the RHoK Academie under Peter Vermandere, she creates contemporary jewellery where the body, the senses and matter engage in dialogue - in collections such as "Too sensitive" or her bracelets dedicated to women Nobel laureates. The daughter of painter Charline Mahy and sculptor Mon De Rijck, she carries on the family's artistic legacy in her own way.

Kim De Rijck

Carl's sister · Architect & jewellery designer

Kim De Rijck describes herself as an "architect of jewellery". Trained in architecture at La Cambre, she ran an architecture practice for twenty years, then an urban planning consultancy for twelve years, before returning to a childhood passion: creating jewellery. The daughter of sculptor Mon De Rijck and painter Charline Mahy, "immersed in a world of artists, aboard a barge", she now creates bespoke jewellery and collections where 3D modelled design meets artisanal, local and eco-responsible craftsmanship. In 2024, she received the "certified artisan" recognition awarded by the FPS Economy, which guarantees the authenticity of her activity and the manual nature of her work.

Jean Mahy

Carl's grandfather · Archaeologist and art historian · "Monsieur Randonnée" on RTBF

Charline Mahy's father. An archaeologist and art historian by training, a tool exporter for a living, a surveyor of Belgium by vocation. RTBF turned him into "Monsieur Randonnée", the guide who, in "Sous les pavés, la plage", led viewers along routes nobody had seen before him. "He has two hats, one for exporting, one for rambling," wrote Pourquoi Pas ? in 1979.