2025 Group show Sept UR'Square
2025 Feb.Carte de Visite group show
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 after 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
His works are about places, emotions, and the permanent state of chaos humanity is in. He works in graphic and photographic materials, paints, sculpts and does installations.
De Wilde studied at the Royal art academy KABK the Hague (NL) and the RHOK academy Brussels.
His work is represented by the Saatchi art gallery and IDGallery (BE) (photography) and it can be acquired directly through his studio.
Die Neue Grizzley collective print studio
Installing the works made with volunteers in the cooperative art project during the pandemic in Elsene, Brussels (XLStaycation)
Artist Statement – Sander de Wilde
I am a photographer and visual artist, based in Brussels since 2007. My practice moves between documentary photography, portrait commissions, painting, printmaking, and installation work. This versatility is not coincidental, but a deliberate way of approaching a central theme from different angles: humanity and its place in a fundamentally chaotic world.
Chaos forms the core of my artistic approach. Not as something negative, but as a source of creativity, tension, and meaning. My work investigates how people navigate this chaos—how order, identity, and beauty can emerge from coincidence, failure, or confrontation.
Photography is often my starting point. For international media and cultural institutions, I create portraits, reportages, and visual stories. This professional practice feeds into my autonomous work, where I explore the boundaries of photography. I do not use the camera as an objective tool, but as a means of questioning, unsettling, and revealing. My images show fragility and absurdity, but also the poetry of everyday life.
Alongside photography, I create graphic work: etchings and paintings that introduce another sense of time. Where photography is direct, printmaking brings slowness, concentration, and the possibility of chance. The imperfections that appear in this process are just as important as the image itself. They highlight the fact that meaning is always in flux.
Brussels is a vital context for my work. The city is complex and layered, with a constant tension between cultures, languages, and realities. This environment informs my artistic research and keeps my work engaged with contemporary issues.
My practice is therefore hybrid: journalistic and autonomous, analogue and digital, direct and layered. I believe that art should not be confined to a fixed form, but gains strength by moving, shifting, and reinventing itself.
The essence of my work lies in creating space for questions. For me, images are not illustrations or answers, but experiences that move, unsettle, and challenge the viewer. My ambition is to share this experience through exhibitions, publications, and collaborations, always seeking new forms to bring chaos, order, and humanity into view.
Short student work: documentary on his work in the studio