Peter Vander Auwera
Tinkerer, Creator, and Sensebreaker in Aalst, Belgium
Petervan composes creative interventions, interruptions, and provocations. Formats can be analog and digital artwork and productions, performances, writings, poems, blogs, installations, soundscapes, recordings, documentaries, spaces, time capsules, curations, events, group experiences, expeditions, immersions, exhibitions.
Peter Vander Auwera is a multidisciplinary artist and experience designer whose creative journey bridges architecture, innovation, and immersive art. Trained as an architect at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent, he spent over 40 years pioneering innovation within major corporations, becoming known for crafting transformative, high-impact learning experiences. His artistic evolution includes formal studies in painting and digital visual arts at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ghent, and XR in the Industry at Howest in Kortrijk. Through his studio practice, Peter now explores the intersection of technology, space, and the human condition. He is producing installations and performances that provoke thought, foster presence, and reimagine attention. His work blends analog and digital, discipline and intuition, creating environments that are at once deeply conceptual and viscerally experiential. He has led creative transformation workshops for Fortune 500 companies and other high-profile teams active in policy and innovation. He lives with his wife Mieke and his daughter Astrid in Nieuwerkerken (Aalst), Flanders, Belgium.