Pieter Geenen

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	° 1979 - Hasselt (BE) education 2003 - 2005 Transmedia, International Postgraduate Program in Arts + Media + Design, Sint-Lukas, Brussels (BE) 1999 - 2003 MA Fine Arts, Photography, Media & Design Academie, Genk (BE) solo/duo/trio exhibitions & screenings 2012 *Pieter Geenen* - Museum of Ixelles, Brussels (BE) Media Lane, Art Brussels, Brussels (BE) 2011 *Mekhitar Garabedian - Pieter Geenen - Slavs and Tatars: Le Mont Analogue* - Be-Part Platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem (BE), curator Bram Van Damme 2010 *Land Ahead* - Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE) 2009 *Shot by Both Sides - Pieter Geenen & Johan Grimonprez* - bkSM #8, cc Strombeek / De Garage Mechelen (BE) *Atlantis* - Bogardenkapel, Bruges (BE) 2007 *Videovenster* - Visualantics, Antwerp (BE) *Gaze* - fst forward >>, Antwerp (BE) 2005 *Transmedia* - Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE) selected group exhibitions & screenings 2012 *Parallel Worlds* - Manifesta 9 Parallel Events, CIAP, Hasselt (BE) *Paysages Occupés #1* - Saison Vidéo, Lille (FR) *Les Confessions* - Lieux-Communs Platform for Contemporary Art, Eglise Saint-Loup, Namur (BE) *Horizon 3: F.E.A.K. - Between Memory and Representation* - De Bond, Brugge (BE), curators Bizhan Mouradipour, Pawel Jankowsky, Michel Dewilde *Ghost Town #1* - Saison Vidéo, Lille (FR) *DINAMO Press & Industry Screenings 4* - Spectrum Shorts, International Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL) *Now You See It* - Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok (TH) 2011 *Isfth Outlines* - Streaming Festival, The Hague (NL) *International Selection - Independent Category* - Bandits-Mages Festival, Bourges (FR) *European Competition* - dokumentART European Film Festival for Documentaries, Neubrandenburg (DE) / Szczecin (PL) *Art/Experimental* - Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York (UK) *Looking Outward, Looking Inward. New audiovisual essays from Belgium* - KASKcinema, Ghent (BE) *7 Years of Art'Contest* - Espace Black Box, Brussels (BE) *Soundspace - Neue Positionen #1* - CIAP, Hasselt (BE) *Art'Contest 2011* - Espace Black Box, Brussels (BE) *EX-Now 4* - EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul (KR) *Memory* - Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival, Pärnu (EE) *Expositions* - FIDMarseille International Documentary Film Festival, Galerie Montgrand/Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseille (FR) *FLUXUS Gallery* - FLUXUS International Film Festival on the Internet, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo (BR) *FREESTATE - Splendid Isolation (Young Belgian Art)* - Oosteroever, Ostend (BE) *Shorts Program 6* - Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago (US) *International Program 1* - Media City Film Festival, Windsor (CA) *Guest City Bruxelles / Brussel: Politics of Perception* - VIDEOEX Festival, Zürich (CH), curators Stoffel Debuysere & Maria Palacios Cruz *The Other Side* - Courtisane Festival, Ghent (BE) *Avant Garde Programme II* - Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (HK) *Distant Montage* - Ecole régionale des beaux-arts, Valence (FR), curator Vincent Meessen *Video Hall* - Art Rotterdam, Annie Gentils Gallery, Rotterdam (NL) *Paysages / Films et Vidéos* - FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen (FR) 2010 *Open Archive #2 - Reflections on Contemporary Art, Media Culture and Archiving* - Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE) *IN OUT Festival* - Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL) **videoART & video installation - dokumentART European Film Festival for Documentaries, Szczecin (PL), curator Antoni Karwowski Manières Noires / Black Outs - BAM (Beaux-Arts Mons), Mons (BE) For Real - 28 Utopian Projections in Public Space - Hasselt (BE) & Maastricht (NL), curator Bart van den Boom Views from the Avant-Garde: Sea Scrolls** - New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York (US), curators Mark McElhatten & Gavin Smith Belgium INC* - Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran (IR), curator Michel Dewilde *Mèdit Art* - Mèdit Festival de cinema mediterrani de ciutadella de Menorca, Menorca (ES), curator Alexandra Laudo *The War Will Not Take Place* - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE) *Cross-talks* - Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest (HU) *Crosstalk Festival selection* - One Shot International Short Film Festival, Yerevan (AM) *Living Spaces* - All Art Now International New Media Art Festival, Damascus (SY) *Camera Eye Essence* - April Meetings Festival, Belgrade (RS) *The War Will Not Take Place* - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (ES) *Between You and Me* - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Tabacalera (future Centro Nacional de las Artes Visuales), Madrid (ES) *Night Vision - An evening on... illuminating darkness* - Courtisane Festival, Ghent (BE), curator Stoffel Debuysere *The Other Side of the Border* - Courtisane Festival, Ghent (BE) *Europe's Antivirus System - In/visibilities of Borders and Migration in Film* - arttransponder, Berlin (DE) *(Out of) Control* - 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liège (BE) *Blind Date II. Sound and Vision in Private* - Sportimonium, Hofstade (BE), curators Vincent Verbist & Pieter Vermeulen 2009 *La guerre n'aura pas lieu* - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) *Experimental Base* - Streaming Festival, 4th International Festival for Audio Visual Art, The Hague(NL) *TIME is a book* - TIME Festival, Ghent (BE), curators Dirk Braeckman & Els Dietvorst *Kino-Pravda* - Frisian International Media Art Competition, Northern Film Festival, Leeuwarden (NL) *Imagine an (Im)Possible Future* - VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona (ES) *An evening with Auguste Orts #6: Some particular things (in a landscape)* - Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE) *Cross-talks 1* - Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest (HU) *The Spirit That Guides Us* - Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago (US) *Instabil* - Synoptic Visionaudial Art Meeting, Pécs (HU), curators Péter Lovas & Szolga Hajnal *De jongens werden vrouwen en mannen* - De Velinx, Tongeren (BE), curator Dan Holsbeek *Urbania I: Cityminds* - Apollo Arthotel, Bruges (BE), curator Sarah Huyghe *Last Day of Magic* - ScalaMata Gallery, Détournement Venice 2009, 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice (IT), curator Jan Van Woensel *International Program II* - Media City International Festival of Film & Video Art, Windsor (CA) *Biotopia* - European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück (DE) *How to Look at Things* - Courtisane Festival, Ghent (BE) *Horizon* - Azad Art Gallery, Tehran (IR), curator Michel Dewilde *All Art Now* - 1st International Video Art Festival, Damascus (SY) 2008 *Blind Date. Sound and Vision in Private* - Actionfields Temporary Art Gallery, Brussels (BE) *Glocal Affairs. Where Are You* - Maastricht (NL), curator Jean Boumans *Parkstad Limburgprijs* - Stadsgalerij, Heerlen (NL) *No Place - Like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe* - Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE), curator Paul Willemsen *Blurring the Terrain or Landscape as a Verb* - International Shorts Program, Images Festival, Toronto (CA) *An evening with Auguste Orts #1* - Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE) *Prix Médiatine* - La Médiatine, Brussels (BE) *Error #8: Project(OR)* - errorOne / MAMA: showroom for media and moving art, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL) 2007 *Input/Output* - De Bond, Bruges (BE) *New Collection* - Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly / Voorkamer, Lier (BE) *Fortis Young Ones Award* - Lineart, Ghent (BE) *Re:collections, Acquisitions 2005-2007 - Open Archive #1* - Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE) *Error #7: Just a Movie for Godsake* - errorOne, Antwerp (BE) *Encounters* - Stadsgalerij, Heerlen (NL), curator Femke Lutgerink *Picture Industries II* - Picture Industries, Utrecht (NL) *Black Box* - Courtisane Festival, Ghent (BE) *Kino Eye #7: Evacuation* - MuHKA_media, Antwerp (BE), curators Edwin Carels & Herman Asselberghs *Vidéothèque Ephémère* - Videoformes, Manifestation Internationale Art Vidéo et Nouveaux Médias, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) *Eclipse - Exploding Cinema* - International Film Festival, Rotterdam (NL), curator Edwin Carels 2006 *Sehnsucht inc.* - Alden Biesen, Bilzen (BE) *Wild vlees* - CIAP, Hasselt (BE) *Power Plays - Interior Desires, Exterior Spaces* - Z33 / PLBK, Hasselt (BE), curator Ive Stevenheydens *Verschijningen* - Cultuurcentrum, Hasselt (BE), curator Stef Van Bellingen 2005 *Super!* - 1st Triennial for Arts, Fashion and Design, Hasselt (BE), curator Edith Doove 2004 *De muzen herdacht* - Cultuurcentrum Muze, Heusden-Zolder (BE) *De jongens van de buurt* - De Velinx, Tongeren (BE), curator Dan Holsbeek 2003 *Kernreactor* - Kunstencentrum TOR, Genk (BE) *Out of control* - VUB, Brussels (BE) awards & grants 2012 *Accompaniment Grant* - SMartBE vzw, Brussels (BE), grant 2011 *dokumentART* - European Film Festival for Documentaries, Neubrandenburg (DE) / Szczecin (PL), honourable mention for 'relocation' *Art'Contest 2011* - Art'Contest, Brussels (BE), 1st laureate (prize Fondation Henri Servais) *Development Grant* - Flemish Community, grant *SPES Mécénat* - Belgian Foundation to support creation (BE), grant 2010 *STEP Beyond mobility fund* - European Cultural Foundation & Open Society Institute, grant 2009 *Development Grant* - Flemish Community, grant 2008 *Arnoevoo* - Staf Versluyscentrum , Bredene (BE), nominee *Development Grant* - Flemish Community, grant *Rodenbach Fonds Award* - Rodenbach Fonds (BE), nominee *Parkstad Limburgprijs* - Stadsgalerij, Heerlen (NL), nominee *Prix Médiatine* - La Médiatine, Brussels (BE), nominee *Trajectory Grant 2008-2009* - Flemish Community Commission, Brussels, grant 2007 *Input/Output* - De Bond, Bruges (BE), 1st laureate *Fortis Young Ones Award* - Lineart, Ghent (BE), laureate 2005 *Neo Limbo* - Villa Basta, Houthalen (BE), nominee selected bibliography 2011 *Horen, zien en voelen. 'Soundspace' in CIAP Hasselt* - Indra Devriendt, < H >ART #86, September 29 *Art'Contest, clap septième* - Roger Pierre Turine, La Libre Belgique, September 7 *Freestate in Review* - exhibition catalogue, published by Vrijstaat O. & < H >ART, Oostende *Jong en relevant. 'Splendid Isolation', tweede Freestate in Oostende* - Marc Ruyters, < H >ART #84, July 14 *L'avenir de l'art dans les dunes d'Ostende* - Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, June 28 *De onbereikbare overkant* - Marc Ruyters, < H >ART #79, March 24 *Media Art and Digital Culture in Flanders, Belgium* - published by BAM (Flemish Institute for visual, audiovisual and media art), Ghent 2010 *Pieter Geenen / Ruben Kindermans* - Marc Ruyters, < H >ART #63, March 4 *(Out of) Control* - International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, exhibition catalogue, Liège 2009 *TIME is a Book* - published by TIME Festival, Ghent, ISBN 9789076979991 *Double Talk* - Pieter Van Bogaert, < H >ART #58, November 12 *Pieter Geenen - The Moving Land* - published by bkSM, Strombeek/mechelen, ISBN 9789077193259 *De jongens werden vrouwen en mannen* - exhibition catalogue, published by De Velinx, Tongeren *Synoptic - Visionaudial Art Meeting* - catalogue published by Sosemart, Pécs, ISBN 9789639873056 *Beeldend Essay* - Johan Debruyne, Krant van West-Vlaanderen, January 23 *De Kunstkaravaan* - Klara, radio interview by Greet Samyn, January 10 2008 *Glocal Affairs. Where Are You* - exhibition catalogue, Roermond, ISBN 9789081166744 *In Transit. 5 jaar visuele kunsten in Brussel* - published by Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Brussels, ISBN 9789075915006 *Parkstad Limburgprijs 2008* - exhibition catalogue, Heerlen 2007 *Lineart 26* - art fair catalogue, Ghent *Power Plays - Interior Desires, Exterior Spaces / Artists Collected / Platform Limburg Beeldende Kunsten 2006* - published by Platform Limburg Beeldende Kunsten, Hasselt, ISBN 9789074605311 *Kino Eye #7: Evacuation* - festival publication compiled by Herman Asselberghs, Antwerp 2006 *Wild vlees* - exhibition catalogue, published by CIAP, Hasselt 2004 *De jongens van de buurt. Deel 4* - exhibition catalogue, published by De Velinx, Tongeren residencies & internships 2010 ACOSS cultural NGO, Yerevan (AM), artist in residence 2008 AIR, Antwerp (BE), artist in residence 2002 Wim Catrysse, Antwerp (BE), internship/assistant lectures 2011 *Artist Talk Pieter Geenen & Els Vanden Meersch* - Parkingallery, Tehran (IR) 2010 *Open Archives, Active Archives? - #2: Writing with video. An evening with Pieter Geenen. Discussions, screenings and presentations.* - Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE) *Artist Talk* - Yerevan State University, Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan (AM) 2009 *Business as Unusual* - Design Platform Limburg, Hasselt (BE) *Artist Talk - Pieter Geenen & Lukas Hoffman* - AIR, Antwerp (BE) 2006 *Visiting Artist* - Transmedia, Sint-Lukas, Brussels (BE) commissions/projects/collaborations 2010 *Active Archives* - Constant Association for Art and Media, Brussels (BE) 2007 *La più bella isola del mondo* - Platform Limburg Beeldende Kunsten (BE), web project 2006 *Erfgoeddag* - Cultuurdienst, Bree (BE) work in collections Souvenirs from Earth TV (DE/FR) Argos Centre for Art & Media (BE) Kunst In Huis Digitaal (BE) Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP Pension Fund - Heerlen (NL)