About

Petervan Studios is the melting pot of three studios: The Art Studio, The Interventions Studio, and The Scaffold Studio. The Studios have the following methods, dynamics, and outcomes in common:

Methods: Collisions – Layering – Activations – Speculations

Dynamics: Translating – Unsnapping – Reframing

Outcomes: Provocations – Experimentations – Collaborations

The three studios share the motivation and desire for societal, moral, and aesthetic advancement. 

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.

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.