Multidisciplinary Art: Exhibitions & Projects
Next to being a photographer Sander de Wilde is a multidisciplinary artist.
His personal, non-commercial work includes etchings, monotypes, lithography, ceramics, installations, film and photography.
GENES
Art Projects
This video uses AI to animate ancestors' photos, blending history with digital art. For the last 20 years I did research on my family tree. This genealogy work resulted in finding loads of stories and images. For this work I projected made in 2022 (the start of AI use in photography) a series of images that were 'revived' by AR to living people.
The projection is on a curtain that covers a painting of a tree on tens of posters I got from my neighbour. She collects all posters of cultural events she visits throughout decades. It honours their legacy while creating a personal, timeless visual story that connects past and present.
GENES
Projection of AI video GENES in situ at the exhibition in Brussels 2022
Reinventing photography
Reinventing photography with analog methods like chemigrams and non-toxic chemistry blends tradition and innovation. These tactile techniques ditch digital ease, creating unique, unpredictable images digital can't match. Chemigrams combine painting and photography on light-sensitive paper without a camera, sparking creativity, while non-toxic chemicals keep it safe and eco-friendly.
This revival honors photography’s roots and pushes its limits with a playful, mindful approach to storytelling.
Art Biënnale of Brussels
I was honored to be asked to organise the second art biënnale of Brussels. Why fly to Venice if you're already in Brussels?
The themes Venice and Shame were announced in 2023 to a group of artists.
ART Biënnale of Brussels 2025
10 (inter)national artists worked on the Pavilion of Belgium, in Brussels, calling themselves La Belge Absurdité.
Due to the political situation in the USA and in Brussels the second Biënnale of Brussels was canceled. The raw works of the different artists were shown in a 3 day exhibition in the heart of Brussels, in the studio of sculptors at RHoK Academy.
The artist statement can be read at my artist website.
Art Exhibitions
2025 Feb.Carte de Visite groupshow
2024 XSmall Schaarbeek group show 2024 April library groups how Etterbeek
2024 June Open air expo Gooik
2023 July Artist route open atelier Woluwe.
2023 June group show RHoK academy.
2023 Student show Elzenhof Streets of Brussels.
2022 3 prints of the XL Staycation project permanent on display.
2022 NFT exhibition imagine.brussels
2022 Erasmus huis Brussels
2022 ARTOPENKUNST Brussels work GENES
2022 GC Elzenhof Ixelles permanent exhibition of 3 large prints on tissue for a coöperative art-project in Ixelles with 10 assistant-photographers.
2021 Pop up IDGallery Gent (March and on)
2020 Maison des Arts Schaerbeek Brussels group show
2019 oct. cc Schaerbeek group show etchings (BE)
2018 sept. CC Elzenhof Ixelles, solo show photography (BE)
2017 Musee Royale Arts & Histoire group show (BE)
2017 galerie Kunstkot Brussel group show, Brussels (BE)
2015 Vlaams parlement groepsexpo (BE)
2005 Roes & Rituelen project, Schiedam (NL)
2005 galerie Wild (maart-sept 2005) Rotterdam (NL)
2004 library Schiedam (feb.2004 NL)
2004 De Cooperatie, Schiedam (juni-September NL)
2004 art gallery 300procent (Schiedam feb.-mrt.NL)
2001 Noorderlicht festival (Groningen - NL)
2000 Fotofestival Naarden (Naarden -NL