Latest projects by Sander de Wilde

ART Biënnale of Brussels 2025

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.

Curator Dr. Camille T. Raynor (USA)

This Biënnale was supposed to be an answer to overcrowded art tourism to Venice.

The overall theme is SHAME

Shame of flying, shame of colonialism, shame of consuming.

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 down here.

text biennale brussel.pdf

destroy/rebuilt

group show in Brussels (April 2024) with 2 mixed media paintings of 2.35 mtr x 1.30 mtr. at the Vanderborght Building.

Aldus.

Installation at The Erasmus house Brussels March-June 2022 (Group show)

The spread of Erasmus' ideas was only possible because of the invention of the printing press. The printer/publisher played an enormously important role. Printers worked closely with Erasmus, who often lived with them for months at a time. Yet Erasmus' work also ended up being burned at the stake.

Sander de Wilde worked with themes such as reproduction, burning, fire, ashes, transience, durability, types of paper, print runs, the printer's mark, friendship and humour.

Ets (zink) 7 x 10 cm.

Formaat Zerkall 210 gr. in resin (10 x 15 cm )

Ashes and charcoal 30x 40 cm.

Inspired on the printer's mark of Aldus Manutius De Wilde placed his own printer's mark partly burnt and in resin in the ashes of the chimney at the original Erasmus house in Brussels for one month.

Erasmus house installation.mp4

GENES 2022 installation

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This installation was first shown in February 2022.

It is a combination of a projection and painting. Sander painted over posters with symbolic and nostalgic meaning he received.

After researching his family tree for 15 years and having a tree of over 15.000 People, a large part proven by DNA Research, he made a projection of 40 of his ancestors, animated by Deep Nostalgia AI Software.

An artificial intelligence program that can use images of persons, be it photographs or paintings, and brings them back to live.

The video was being projected on a white curtain, that on itself was hanging in front of a painted tree of 2X 3 Meters, consisting of old posters.

Another nostalgic poster was placed opposite of the work, also being reworked in acrylic paint.

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5000 people visited the expo and were astounded by the movements of the dead persons on the curtain, some opened it to see the painted life tree on old posters behind.

'Working Progress' 2021

installation

2019-2021 Sander worked on the theme of Evolution. His 'Working Progress' is an very large installation consisting of etchings, lithographs, a Lith stone, a table and a cupboard, ink on transparencies, and other prints on paper.

It was presented as an installation in 2021 in Brussels during a temporary group show by art academy RHoK during the pandemic.

It filled an entire space of 4 by 10 meters.

Supper/Judas

July 2021

During the groupshow Carte de Visite ArtopenKunst (Brussels) in May 2021 (postponed due to Covid) Sander showed his biggest work ever.

A 20 meter long screen printed tablecloth hanging down several floors unto the floor of the Vanderborght Building in the center of Brussels.

The tablecloth showed 12 plates at 'a certain distance' screenprinted on a paper tablecloth.

Length 20 Meter

Width 1.20 Mtr

Edition 1/1

On the 2nd floor two other works, creenprinted on paper photography background, Sailor Sailor and Grieve were shown.

Single works

the flood 2014

etching and lino 40x60cm edition of 10

Trout me

etching on copper

20x24 cm on Zerkall

edition of 5

Bye Bye

This expo is a short view on his work made in 2018: Copper etchings made by re-using his photojournalistic work.

De Wilde uses street photographs, journalistic photographs, found footage and even corporate work as beginning for new graphic work. He works on transparencies, paints and scratches on them, puts them on a copper plate with a photographic emulsion, and prints it in very small editions.

Around the Bitcoin and NFT Meta world.

Fascinated by Bitcoin and the Art revolution concerning the sales of NFT on platforms as Open Sea and Rare.io Sander started to dive into reworking nft works into new physical works.

Sander de Wilde combines his images; photographs, found footage and drawings, into works on paper, installations and videos.

He also works around NFT and Artificial Intelligence.

His studio is situated in Brussels and can be visited on request.

Some works are sold through Saatchi and during exhibitions.

Beeple 5000 days revisited. Lithographic print on photograph NYC. 30x 45 cm ©sanderdewilde2021

Beeple 5000 days revisited. Lithographic print on vintage photograph. 30x 45 cm ©sanderdewilde2021

Beeple 5000 days revisited. Lithographic print on photograph. 30x 45 cm ©sanderdewilde2021

Beeple 5000 days revisited. Cyanotype

Edition 1/1

Bored ape 1 and 2

Screenprint 40 x 80 cm monotype

on DEATH

Deathbed monotype screenprints 50 X 70 CM

1/1

Deathbed 2021 Screenprint ecoline monotypes 50X70 1/1

Painting 60 x 80 cm

painting 60 x 80 cm

Shout out

Lithography on Zerkall

40 x 50 cm

edition of 5

Man Walking

Screenprint monotype ecoline 2021 series of 5 evolutionary prints 50 X 70 Cm

Large format Etchings

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copper etching on Zerkall 76 x 108 cm. 1/4

Schock 60 X 90 cm. 1/1

Wild Night. Lithograph 60 x 90 cm ed. of 4.

Working Progress. installation 2021

You can walk through the original design of the Working Progress expo yourself only by using a computer. If it doesn't show (on mobile phones) you can try this link or make a profile on Artsteps.

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