About Petervan
Petervan is a multidisciplinary artist and experimentalist. He composes creative interventions, interruptions, and provocations. Formats can be curations, events, group experiences, expeditions, immersions, exhibitions, analog and digital artwork and productions, performances, writings, poems, blogs, installations, soundscapes, recordings, documentaries, and time capsules. His interventions enable higher states of alertness and freedom and encourage his audience to create the best work they can.
He is not the conductor of an orchestra, but rather the composer of a score. His role is that of a stager, ensceneur, and scaffoldeur to let emerge something new. He sets the tone, rhythm, and content of his compositions. His fellow artists, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and engineers are his colors. His canvas is the physical and virtual space, four-dimensional.
“There’s an intention behind Petervan’s work engaging the way that you engage in what he creates. An intention not just to create a creative experience but to encourage some kind of a transformation.”
“Petervan is working in the dark, letting other people shine. And above all makes us think about where we come from and where we might be going.”
“With The Scaffold, Petervan is creating his legacy”
“We can safely say that Petervan is a thinker in images.”
“The focus must be on allowing participants to manage their own experience, so they can be on the edge of their comfort zone, and not pushed beyond it”
Petervan
Biography
Petervan was born in Brussels in 1957. He was trained as an architect at the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and Ghent. Petervan spent 40 years in corporate innovation in retail, (re)insurance, financial services, fintech, and digital identity. His expertise in digital identity was recognized as a member of the WEF Personal Data Expert Group and the 2005 Microsoft Chairman’s Award. Peter won multiple FinTech Influencer Awards. He was the co-founder of Innotribe (SWIFT’s innovation initiative). In his role as architect and content curator of Innotribe at Sibos, he built a reputation as an innovation lead and designer of events and immersive learning experiences.
After a sabbatical, Petervan returned to his artistic roots. He studied painting and digital visual arts at the Academy of Visual Arts in Overijse and Ghent. In 2019, Petervan consolidated his creative undertakings into Petervan Studios. He lives with his wife Mieke and his daughter Astrid in Nieuwerkerken (Aalst), Flanders, Belgium.