Annick Geenen is a fine art photographer, visual artist and lecturer at LUCA School of Arts (BE).
Her visual artistic practice and practice-led research interweaves photography, archival material, collage, text and installation. In between the visual arts, the staged and cinematic photography, she focuses on new ways of telling stories visually and experiment with narratives from a female perspective. Bridging the space between conceptual, personal and the relationship between fiction versus reality she re-uses and activates her visual material to explore subjects such as human interaction, memory and a feeling that speaks in the feminine. There are many territories that beat in silence, waiting to be heard. She listen to the territory, and from there, she think of interventions and projects that excite, connect and leave a mark, but also inspire processes for change. Her images are evocatively staged in spaces that keep memory. Working slowly and methodically, she explores the notion of authenticity and what it means to be yourself through her images that remind us about our existence. Annick Geenen breaks thereby the genre conventions open of the fashion related photograph by allowing her models the individual gaze of the portrait.
She has forged multiple collaborations with various editors, choreographers, fashion designers,... including Veronique Branquinho, Raf Simons, Heaven Tanudiredja, Alex Schrijvers, Harvey Bouterse, Wouter Hoste, Revital Avidar, Hideki Seo, Ilia Eckardt, Hilde Frunt, Essential Antwerp, Scabal, Luciano Benetton, Eastpak, Walter Van Beirendonck, Modenatie Antwerp, Anke Loh, Kathleen Missotten, Kyoko Baertsoen, Jan Fabre, Wim Vandekeybus, Casimir, Anne Pastré, Veronique Leroy, Jean-Paul Knott, Delvaux, The Flanders Fashion Institute (FFI Antwerp), Saatchi & Saatchi Brussels and many more. Annick Geenen's work appeared in exhibitions at Colette Paris, Vooruitzicht Antwerp, the Fashion Museum Hasselt and Antwerp, De Warande Turnhout, Gallery S & H De Buck, Campo & Campo Art gallery, the Flemish Parliament and various cultural centres in Flanders. Her photographs have been published in VISION magazine, Kwintessens, ISEL art and culture magazine, dS Magazine, Knack Weekend, Knack magazine, Feeling, Goed Gevoel, Blend, AAA art magazine, De Lichte Kamer (Garant), Designers Against Aids (Ludion), Moi Veronique Branquinho Toute Nue (MoMu) , Delvaux (Lannoo), Contradictions: 350 Years Antwerp Academy, The Fashion Book (Phaidon), The Rage of Staging (Lannoo), …
Annick Geenen graduated in 1992 from the Higher Institute for Visual Communication & Industrial Design (Genk, BE) with an MFA in Photography. She holds also an MA in Visual Arts from the Media and Design Academie and a certificate of pedagogical competence from the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training (BE).
Since 2004, Annick Geenen teaches at the academic Bachelor and Master’s degree programs in Visual Arts Photography at LUCA School of Arts campus C-Mine (BE), while continuing her artistic practice.
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