Since we keep moving trough an era of increasing rush and intense, unsettling and very rapid change, many artists respond by exploring the subtle and 'slow' characteristics of things.
In a similar response and in resistance to a tendency of demystification, I explore and accentuate the subtle and hidden characteristics of the landscape in particular. I wish to translate the complexity of a certain geo-political and geo-social reality into a general reflection on the 'innocent' landscape by means of its audiovisual characteristics. The landscape as a bearer of meaning.
I'm interested in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape in relation to the personal and collective memory and identity. How is a landscape coded, and how does man relate to the landscape? How do we shape the landscape, what traces do we leave or how do we interfere with the landscape? And what do we experience in confrontation with a landscape?

In my abstraction of reality I imply a constant, repetitive, but yet static world. I explore the relation between vision and sound, the vague boundaries of the visible and the audible, and I tend to move on a thin line between the moving and the static image. The audience needs to complete the blurred 'gestalt', decode the spatial ambiguities, assume presences and see trough all omissions and shortenings. Between the hasty atmospherical, though everlasting and almost frozen cinematic moment rules a strong individual sense of space and time. Listening and watching becomes intense, intimate, alienative, contemplative and almost tangible in the context of an undisturbed stillness.




'Splendid Isolation. Over de discrete maar dubbelzinnige charme van de schitterende afzondering: voorbij het politieke' - Lieven Van den Abeele
(text published in 'Freestate in Review', exhibition catalogue, 2011)
'Voorbij het bewegend beeld: Pieter Geenen' - Stoffel Debuysere
(text published in 'Freestate in Review', exhibition catalogue, 2011)
'Pieter Geenen / Ruben Kindermans' - Marc Ruyters
(review published in < H >art magazine #63, March 4, 2010)
'Anti-reporter at night' - Herman Asselberghs
(text published in 'Pieter Geenen - The Moving Land', 2009, ISBN 9789077193259)
'Political landscapes - Some observations on the work by Pieter Geenen' - Luk Lambrecht
(text published in 'Pieter Geenen - The Moving Land', 2009, ISBN 9789077193259)
'Double Talk - Pieter Geenen en Johan Grimonprez in Strombeek en Mechelen' - Pieter Van Bogaert
(interview with Pieter Geenen & Johan Grimonprez published in < H >art magazine #58, November 12, 2009)
'Images Blog 5' - Andrew James Paterson
(review published on April 8, 2008, festival blog of the 21st Images Festival Toronto)
'Nightscape' - Ive Stevenheydens
(text published in 'Power Plays - Interior Desires, Exterior Spaces / Artists Collected / Platform Limburg Beeldende Kunsten 2006', 2007, ISBN 9789074605311)
'gaze (6)' - Peter Pollers
(text published in 'Wild Vlees', exhibition catalogue, 2006)
'gaze' - Dan Holsbeek
(text published in 'De jongens van de buurt. Deel 4', exhibition catalogue, 2004)
'gaze' - Jeroen Versteele
(unpublished text, 2004)