Pieter Geenen

Pieter Geenen (1979) lives and works in Brussels. After his Masters degree in Photography he finished the international postgraduate program Transmedia at Sint-Lukas Brussels. In his audiovisual work he shows interest in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape. He looks for ways to translate the ambiguity of the geo-political reality into reflections on the concepts of imperialism, borders, migration, identity, belonging and land. His work has been presented at the International Film Festivals of Rotterdam, New York and Hong Kong, VIDEOEX Zürich, Images Festival Toronto, EXiS Seoul, FID Marseille, Les Rencontres Internationales, M-Museum Leuven, La Capella Barcelona, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Centre Pompidou Metz and Médiathèque FMAC Geneva. Geenen received the Input/Output Art Prize in 2007 and the first prize “Fondation Henri Servais”; of the Art&; Contest Art Prize in 2011. His latest solo exhibition “This land is my land. This land is your land”; was presented at ARGOS Brussels in 2015. Together with artists Sirah Foighel Brutman, Eitan Efrat and Meggy Rustamova he is a founding member of Messidor, a platform for reflection, production and distribution.