Tessa Von Tattoo

Tessa Von Tattoo is a small, solo-run tattoo studio in Gent, Belgium, specializing in horror and dark fantasy tattoos. Tessa has been tattooing since 2017, drawing on a lifelong fascination with video games, metal music, and disturbing movies. Before picking up a tattoo machine, she studied languages and literature at university, completing a thesis on horror authors H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Algernon Blackwood, alongside horror video games—an academic background that continues to shape the dark, literary, and mythological themes running through her work.

The studio itself reflects this sensibility, filled with curiosities, skulls, taxidermy, and sinister literature that set the tone for the tattooing experience. Tessa works alone, offering both tattoos and illustrations, and regularly shares flash designs on Instagram. She also creates non-tattoo-related drawings, with plans to eventually release them in print form. Appointment books open periodically, with booking details and updates posted directly through the studio's own channels, making Tessa Von Tattoo a distinctive destination in Gent for anyone drawn to dark fantasy and horror-inspired tattoo artistry.