PETER WATERSCHOOT
Peter Henry Waterschoot is playing with the buttons of time. Space and time markers are his taboo. The photoworks are a result of ever-consecutive trips, hunting for a heterotopia within the remains of the postwar period of the previous century. Much of the latter ongoing series are characterised by a dreamlike state and a sober, lucid romanticism.The photoworks evoque a meditative gaze and lead the viewer into a different state of mind. there is a recognizable color-palette (varying from copper-brown, bordeaux, gold, forest green, black, deep red, pink, yellowish, purple even ). But Darkness and melancholia are not omnipresent; in his latest work Peter Waterschoot is ‘reaching out towards (blinding) light’.
EDUCATION
Graduated Photography fine arts, Academie Gent. 2009.
EXHIBITIONS
2021 CHARLEROI Musée de la Photographie, soloshow, Sunset memory
2021 BRUSSELS ARP2 publishing, bookpublication, Sunset Memory
2020 TURNHOUT DE WARANDE, DE NACHT GROUPSHOW,
curated by Annelies Nagels en Glenn Geerinck,
with a.o. David Claerbout, Bieke Depoorter, Harry Gruyaert, Soham Gupta,
Hans Op de Beeck, Thomas Ruff, George Shiras, Kohei Yoshiyuki, and others.
2020 MIDDELKERKE Ville Des Zéphyrs groupshow curated by Els Wuyts
2019 LILLE Halogénure magazine, publication
2019 GENT BAD ART FAIR
2019 BRUSSELS Galerie ZWART HUIS, double bill with Liliane Vertessen
2019 BE COLLECT MAGAZINE, publication
2018 BE Beeldverhaal De Standaard Weekblad, 6 page portfolio, publication
2018 BE The Artcouch, publication
2018 GENT Casa Argentaurum, At the Skin of Time, soloshow
2018 Brussels ARP2 publishing, At the Skin of Time, bookpublication
2018 Behind closed Doors, PAK
2018 ARTURE 8, Kraainem
2017 Tiny Tears, Urbanautica institute, MI* gallery Paris
2017 Land van Fotografie, Land Van Waaslaan Gent
2017 Summer Camp # 4 at Cecilia Jaime Gallery
2017 MASTERCLASS Todd Hido at Smedsby Atelier, Paris
2017 BELGIAN ART AND DESIGN FAIR GENT
2016 LE CLIGNOTEUR BXL-Dog Day Cabinet n°2- Curator.
2016 SALON SAUVAGE. les Noirs – Happening, Gent
2016 PAK GISTEL, INTIMACY UNDER THE MILKY WAY
2016 PHOTOFESTIVAL KNOKKE, Unknown Masterpieces.
2016 BUDA GALLERY, Asse. Solo
2016 DE LICHTE KAMER, Brussels Parlement
2015 DE WITTE MUUR n° 13. Gent. Solo
2015 ONE, Photography in Dialogue
2015 DOG DAY CABINET, C41, Antwerpen. Curator.
2015 ZEBRASTRAAT GENT, 'Conversation Rooms'
2014 ARTWALL 9
2014 DE ZEE, TRIBUTE TO JAN HOET
2014 44 GALLERY, Solo
2012 44 GALLERY, Solo
2012 FOTOPENSION KöLN, Solo
2010 MUSEUM EMILE VERHAEREN, Solo versus works of Léon Spilliaert.
2010 SECOND ROOM GENT, Solo
2009 Gallery Jan Colle
BOOKS
2021 PHOTOBOOK: SUNSET MEMORY PUBLISHED WITH ARP2 PUBLISHING
2018 PHOTOBOOK: AT THE SKIN OF TIME PUBLISHED WITH ARP2 PUBLISHING
2009 PHOTOBOOK: Preparing the Scene, selfpublished
MAGAZINES
OKV Public Art Domain Flanders, June 21, artist portrait.
KUNSTMAGAZINE 10, review by Willem Elias
HART ART Magazine edition 212, artistcontribution, with a letter by Sofie Crabbé
Halogénure cahier 6B
De Standaard Weekblad portfolio
Collect Magazine
The Artcouch