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The work of Pieter Geenen addresses questions about the landscape, geo-political and geo-social realities. He is interested in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape, and how man relates to the landscape. Within this context he has made works about the division of Cyprus (nostalgia, 2009), the border region of Congo-Rwanda, (scènes troublées, 2009), the refugee island of Lampedusa, (nocturne (lampedusa – fort europa), 2006), the Three Gorges Dam in China, (atlantis, 2008). Working with video, audio and photography, Geenen explores the boundaries of what is visible and audible. In resistance to a demystification of things and as an anti-image of traditional media Geenen explores the subtleness of things, focusing on what is hidden and slow. The spectator needs to complete the blurred gestalt, decode the spatial ambiguities, assume presences and see through all omissions and shortenings.

The work of Pieter Geenen has been shown at a.o. the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, EMAF (Osnabrück), Images Festival (Toronto), Argos Centre for Art & Media (Brussels), Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, and at the Liège Biennial (BE) and the Venice Biennial (IT).

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2012

Museum van Elsene, Brussels (Belgium)

2011

BE-PART, Waregem (Belgium)

2010

Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp (Belgium)

2009

'Atlantis', Bogardenkapel, Bruges (Belgium)
CC Strombeek/De Garage, Grimbergen/Mechelen (Belgium)

2007

'Videovenster', Visualantics, Antwerp (Belgium)
'Gaze', fst forward, Antwerp (Belgium)

2005

'Transmedia', Beursschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium)

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Group exhibitions

2012

'Parallel Worlds', Manifesta 9 Parallel Events, CIAP, Hasselt (Belgium)
'Les Confessions', Lieux-Communs Platform for Contemporary Art, Eglise Saint-Loup, Namur (Belgium)
'Horizon 3: Feak - Tussen herinnering en voorstelling', De Bond, Bruges (Belgium)

2011

'Freestate - Splendid Isolation (Young Belgian Art)', Vrijstaat O., Ostend (Belgium)
'Mekhitar Garabedian - Pieter Geenen - Slavs and Tatars: Le Mont Analogue', BE-PART, Waregem (Belgium)

2009

'duo exhibition with Johan Grimonprez', BKSM, Strombeek/Mechelen (Belgium)
Synoptic Visionaudial Art Meeting, Pécs (Hungaria)
Media City International Festival of Film & Video Art, Windsor (Canada)
'Biotopia', European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (Germany)
'How to Look at Things', Courtisane Festival, Ghent (Belgium)
'Horizon', Azad Art Gallery, Teheran (Iran)
'All Art Now', 1st International Video Art Festival, Damascus (Syria)

2008

'Blind Date. Sound & Vision in Private', Actionfields Temporary Art Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
'Glocal Affairs. Where Are You', Maastricht (The Netherlands)
'Parkstad Limburgprijs' - Stadsgalerij, Heerlen (The Netherlands)
'No Place - like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe' - Argos, Brussels (Belgium)
'Blurring the Terrain or Landscape as a Verb' - International Shorts Program, 21st Images Festival, Toronto (Canada)
'An evening with Auguste Orts #1' - Beursschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium)
'Prix Médiatine' - La Médiatine, Brussels (Belgium)
'Error #8: Project(OR)', errorOne / MAMA: Showroom for media and moving art / Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

2007

'New Collection', Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly / Voorkamer, Lier (Belgium)
'Fortis Young Ones Award', Lineart, Flanders Expo, Ghent (Belgium)
'Error #7: Just a movie for godsake', errorOne, Antwerp (Belgium)
'Encounters', Stadsgalerij, Heerlen (The Netherlands)
'Picture Industries II', Picture Industries, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
'Courtisane', 6th Festival for Short Film, Video and New Media, Ghent (Belgium)
'Kino Eye #7: Evacuation', MuHKA_media, Antwerp (Belgium)
'Vidéothèque Ephémère', Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
'Eclipse - Exploding Cinema', International Film Festival, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

2006

'Wild Vlees', CIAP, Hasselt (Belgium)
'Power Plays', Z33 / PLBK, Hasselt (Belgium)
'Verschijningen', Cultuurcentrum, Hasselt (Belgium)

2005

'Super!', Triënnale voor hedendaagse kunst, mode & design, Hasselt (Belgium)

2004

'De Jongens Van De Buurt', De Velinx, Tongeren (Belgium)