Andy Warhol probably couldn’t skateboard, and René Magritte died well before the sport became popular—but their artworks sure look good on the bottom of a deck.

You can check them out via The Skateroom, a Brussels-based “social enterprise” that partners with artists and estates to offer custom boards bearing their work. Other artists who have adapted their designs to a deck include Walead Beshty, JR, Albert Oehlen, and Judy Chicago.

The boards range in price from roughly $165 to $850, and the proceeds go to a good cause: the company donates 25 percent of the profit from every sale or five percent of the turnover—whichever number is greater—to social skating projects for at-risk youth and other nonprofits. 

Over the past six years, the company has raised more than $800,000 for projects around the globe, including New York City’s AIDS memorial; Judy Chicago’s feminist art organization Through the Flower; and Escola Vidigal, a Vik Muniz-founded school for art and technology in Rio de Janeiro.

A triptych of Jean-Michel-Basquiat “skull” decks. Courtesy of The Skateroom. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

Charles-Antoine Bodson founded The Skateroom in 2014. Prior to that, he operated his own gallery in Brussels, where he showed such artists as photographer Rafael Herman and sculptor Benjamin Sabatier. Ultimately, however, he felt unsatisfied. Then he met Oliver Percovich, the founder of a skating and education program in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa called Skateistan. That changed everything.

“I was selling works to very rich people, and it just didn’t excite or fulfill me anymore,” Bodson told Artspace. “I said, ‘I quit. I want to be the producer of skateboard decks, in order to support the Skateistan project.” 

Courtesy of The Skateroom. © Rhianon Bader, Afghanistan.

Since then, the Bodson’s own company has worked with Skateistan a number of times, including in 2015, when The Skateroom joined forces with Paul McCarthy to produce a 35-edition suite of decks meant to raise money for a new school in Johannesburg, South Africa. The boards raised $200,000, enough to finance the entire project. 

The McCarthy initiative helped put The Skateroom on the map, and the company has since scored a number of similarly impressive collaborations. Ai Weiwei and Shepard Fairey created a series of anti-Trump skateboard artworks in 2017, for instance, while earlier this year, Jenny Holzer unveiled an impeachment-themed deck made of marble and wood.

Take a look at The Skateroom’s current editions, including designs by Raymond Pettibon, Yoshitomo Nara and Kelley Walker, here. Orders need to be placed by December 15th in order to ensure delivery for the holidays.