Contact
labo : Pontstraat 39 9300 Aalst Belgium
cellphone : 0032 478 91 30 17
email : wachtelaer.geert@pandora.be
BTW n°: BE0879.810.487 FORTIS 001-2383909-16
IBAN n° BE72 0012 3839 0916 BIC-CODE : GEBABEBB
Fortis Bank, Nieuwstraat 20 9300 Aalst Belgium
Education
1986-1990 Study of film director at the RITCS, Brussels (Rijksinstituut voor Toneel en Cultuurspreidingstechnieken)
Occupation
Audiovisual underground filmmaker
Before 2000 worked as an underground creator (mostly collaborations wihin video/performance art/Internet Art)
2000 Argos Arts, Information days, 13 rue du Chantier B-1000 Brussels
2000 Impakt festival, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Norapolis 2004,Internalional festival of multimedia METZ France 2004
Festival International cinema nouvelles générations à Lyon, France 2004
The Drake Hotel : notes from the underground with Steve Reinke, 1150 Queen West Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2004
Heaven Gallery Chicago, USA 2004
PLAY III - International Video Art Festival -Museo de Arte "Ángel M. De Rosa" - Junìn, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2004
Biennale Internazionale di Ferrara , Castello Estense - Ferrara , Italy . 2004
Festival « Musiques Volantes » Metz , France 2004
Les inattendus, contempory art evenement , Paris , France 2005
Detroit International Film and Video Festival , Museum of Modern Art , USA 2005
Art in your Face, Malmoe , Sweden 2005
Cortodrome, short filmfestival, Bari , Italy 2005
Optica2005, Video-art and Contemporary Photography, GIJÓN (ASTURIAS, ESPAÑA) 2005
bac!05 - international festival of contemporary art in barcelona sixth edition 2005
"Nuit Blanche" Paris
Face au 12 rue Neuve ou au 19 rue des Frigos, 75013 - M°Bibliothèque, projection in open sky 4X3, France 2005
Videohm, OHM Lounge Syracuse , NY 13217 USA2005
Semantikon,2006, ARCANA an asynchornous
exposition of
multimedia works of Geert Wachtelaer
ASSOCIATION DES INSTANTS VIDEO
NUMÉRIQUES ET POÉTIQUES l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence , France 2006
2006,pink tv, Each night, PinkTV transforms his antenna in « art Tv » and offers to contemporary video a unique space in Paradise. Major expression of our era, the video grew outside the broadcasting industry and to counter-current of the circuits traditional distributions. Conceived as a night laboratory, Paradise explores unpublished broadcasting containers. All the artists, vidioartists and film directors, rejoin in Paradise to celebrate the visual art. All the aesthetic and ecstatic kinds are allowed: video art, experimental movie, organizations, performances, « video dance », short movies... 2006
Vlaams Radio Koor,Marrige of Heaven and Hell, Johan Duijck conduct
Geert Wachtelaer video artist. A full programme, in which music, image and word melt together into a tribute to the visionary William Blake.
2006 Sint-Niklaas - stadhuis, Belgium
2006 Antwerpen - Augustinus Muziekcentrum, Belgium
2006 Deurle - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
2006 Brugge - OLV-ter-Potterie, Belgium
2006 Brussel - Flagey, the former National Institute for Radio Broadcasting Belgium
2006 Metu Video Festival ,Turkey , Ankara Single channel videos from Turkey and all over the world will be in on 2, 3,4th of March
2006 Synch Festival ,Greece , Athens International eclectic collection of notable contemporary artists' films, Goethe Institute (theatre), Lavrio Technological & Science Park:“Patio” (outdoors)“Pharmacy” (indoors)
2006 Videominuto ,Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Arts of Prato, Italy
2006 Europian film festival “For the first five”, locate in Neubrandenburg / Germany .
2006 “PI performance & intermedia” festival National Museum in Szczecin SZCZECIN-SWINOUJSCIE / POLAND
2006 Les instants video l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence ,Text and Texture ,France 2006
2006 CITYPULSE 4, santiago media art festival, Chile. The citypulse collection was exhibited at the Entel Tower in Santiago, in a giant 145 square ft hi-def screen installed at 330 ft of height.
2006 Biennale 3000 Saopaulo, Brazil
2006 Art in Antwerp solo exhibition, (ANINA), Internationaal Pershuis, Antwerpen, Belgium
2007 CITYPULSE Lowell, at the 119 Gallery in Lowell, USA,
2007 Patagonia Electrónica Festival, in Punta Arenas, Chile
2007 "Beyond" Moka Gallery, Chicago, USA
2007 Danscamdanse festival, Film-plateau - Ghent, Belgium
2007 'Facing the river' at East Art Center, Chicago , USA
2007 Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
2007 ART Santa Fe, El Museo de Cultural, New Mexico, USA
2007 Videominuto PopTV 2007,Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2007 Art Now Fair Miami – Art Basel – USA Dec 2007 (Moka Gallery)
2007 Diva" video art fair in Paris, France (Moka Gallery)
2007 If I Can't Dance - Mukha Antwerp (collaboration with Emilie de Vlam's Ma. solo. production MA VZW )
2008 Salon 08 Aalst, Belgium
2008 Nieuw Amsterdam NYC USA
2008 Kunstevenement De drempel Wevelgem Belgium
2010 Genesis Magdelien Roobroeck “mediage” Aalst, Belgium
2010 POR CHILE is an effort by the artists linked with CITYPULSE to help rebuild part of the loss. The images, texts, music and video that make up this work represent a message to Chile from each of the 70 artists around the world who has collaborated with this initiative. The available formats includes a book, CD, DVD, web, mobile app. and a limited 5 print series of each photograph. All the profits will go to help the victims. Chile