Stefan Peters
Stefan Peters, 'Untitled (Vistas series)', 2024, acrylic, oil on 2 wooden panels, 160 x 80cm (each)
Stefan Peters’ compositions are as much phenomena as they are illusions. From their undeniable factuality – the brushed, smoothed, stretched paint; the radiant colors – arise majestic and ethereal landscapes. Yet, from these material and visual realities – which already captivate our gaze – there instantly emerges a shift toward unreality and suggestion. A sense of disorientation occurs. Don’t these vast, airy, enveloping, and silent spaces ultimately stand as theaters of absence, silence, and suspended time?
Just as we are about to enter the sketched pathways and wander the sinuous trails of these panoramas, an unyielding realization sets in: no defined entry is offered to us. Like the brushed gestures of the artist, our gaze glides across the canvas in undulating movements. Stefan Peters seems indeed to invite us to drift, even to daydream, so that, ultimately, we surrender ourselves to a deeper, internal experience. His ‘Vistas’ – symmetrical representations with ambiguous mirror effects – seem to sustain this proposal. Deployed with balance around a clearly drawn median, they are both Here and Elsewhere. Beyond painting, beyond the notion of landscape, Stefan’s work invites us to walk with him through the labyrinthine paths of the mind.
EDUCATION:
2015 - 2016: Post Academic program (Jan van Eyck Academie - Maastricht, NL)
1996 - 2000: Master Degree in Graphical Design (Academy of Fine Arts, Genk, BE)
1999: Erasmus Exchange program (Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, UK)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2025
The Sublime Nature of Being, ICD Brookfields, Dubai (UAE)
2024
Hyper Vista, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL) (solo) Fearful Symmetry, Galerie Zwart Huis, Brussels (BE) (solo) / Coup de Ville - The hill they climb, (13/04 - 19/05), Sint Niklaas (BE) (curated by Stef Van Bellingen) Limited / Edition Art Fair, Villa Empain, Brussels (BE) (by Galerie Zwart Huis) / Layers of Expression, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL) (curated by Stefan Peters) / Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam (NL) (with Galerie Roger Katwijk)
2023
Art Antwerp, Antwerp Expo (BE) with Galerie Zwart Huis / Rivierverloren, De ruimte, CC Ter Dilft (BE) (curated by Koen Broucke) / Diafaan 7, Sint-Elisabeth Begijnhof Sint-Amandsberg, Ghent (BE) / IVY / Vuur in mij, Korsele (BE) (curated by Johan Tahon) / In Absence, MAD Gallery, Hasselt (BE) (curated by Karen Wuytens & Nadia Sels) Image=Works, KADOC, Leuven (BE) (curated by Johan Wagemans)
2022
Art Antwerp, Antwerp Expo (BE) with Galerie Zwart Huis / Fik Invites, Galerie Zwart Huis, Brussels (BE) / Oude wijn/Nieuwe Zakken, De Warande, Turnhout (BE) / Thin Places, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw bezoekingskerk, Rozebeke (BE) (with Johan Tahon) Private Paradise, Galerie / Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL) (Solo) / Ballroom Project, BorgerHub, Antwerpen (BE) / Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam (NL)
2021
Vanwege Vincent, Stedelijk Museum, Breda (NL) / Apollowlands I, Ruimte P60, Assen (NL) / Traces, De Cellen, Oostkamp (BE) (curated by Benedict Vandaele) / Nirvana, Sereni Leiekant, Kortrijk (BE) (with Johan Tahon) / Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam (NL) / FUTURE MEMORIES. Utopia Dystopia Nature, Singing Waves Gallery - City University, Hong Kong (CN)