Antoine De Winter BE, b. 1985
Antoine De Winter’s work stems from an inseparable dual process: shooting in the field and alchemical transformation in the studio. Camera in hand, facing the landscape, he captures the light of the place. Then, through traditional processes — ambrotype, cyanotype and anthracotype — he physically incorporates material from that same territory into the development of the image.
Salt collected by the sea, local rock and glacial soot become the photographic agents that bring forth what has been seen. The photographed place thus becomes the image itself: what he calls “geological photography”.
What interests him is not simply the capture of a moment, but the moment of the image’s emergence — that fragile instant when it is constructed through the encounter between captured light and collected matter, when it is not yet fully there. In the face of the contemporary dematerialisation of the image, he affirms a slowness of gesture, a search for essentiality, and an acceptance of imperfection and impermanence. His works, unique and fragile, reveal themselves slowly under certain angles of light, inviting an attentive experience in which the gaze can rest, linger and meditate.
Education
After studying medicine and anthropology at the University of Leuven, he turned to photography following his doctorate and graduated from the Agnès Varda School in 2018.
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
- All the places and the places between, Hangar, Brussels, 2025
Group Exhibitions (selected)
- Art Rotterdam x Hangar, Rotterdam, 2026
- InCadaques festival, Cadaques, Spain, 2025
- approche x Hangar, Paris, 2024
- Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Paris, 2023
- Musée de la Boverie, Liège, 2023
- Dvir Gallery, Brussels, 2023
- Centre Wallon d’Art Contemporain, 2022
- Off programme, Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, Arles, 2018
Awards
Antoine De Winter has received numerous awards, including the Soutien à la création artiste contemporain from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in 2021.
Publications
- Blindfolded, Grani Edizione, 2024
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All the places and the places between - Antoine De Winter
7 Nov - 21 Dec 2025All The Places and the Places Between explores photographic apparition as a retinal persistence of the sun, an echo turning into a murmur, a memory that shatters. This series reveals...Read more -
Apparitions - Group show
15 Nov - 21 Dec 2024After participating in the Paris Photo and Approche fairs, Hangar Gallery opens its first group show in Brussels. These 9 photographers explore the boundaries of the medium and the materiality...Read more
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Luxembourg Art Week 2026 - Booth A15
Sylvie Bonnot / Antoine De Winter / Lior Gal / Kíra Krász / Matthieu Litt / Luc Praet 20 - 22 Nov 2026For Luxembourg Art Week 2026, Hangar Gallery is bringing together six of the artists it represents, each of whom, in their own way, embodies the...Read more -
Paris Photo 2026 - Main Sector Booth A57
Sylvie Bonnot / Antoine De Winter / Véronique Ellena / Alice Pallot 12 - 15 Nov 2026Hangar Gallery is part of Paris Photo 2026 - 29th Edition in the Main Sector, Booth A47 Hangar Gallery presents Sylvie Bonnot, Antoine De Winter, Véronique Ellena, Alice Pallot.Read more -
Art Rotterdam / Unseen 2026 - Booth K1
Sylvie Bonnot / Antoine De Winter / Lior Gal / Luc Praet 27 - 29 Mar 2026Hangar Gallery is delighted to take part of Art Rotterdam 2026 with Sylvie Bonnot, Antoine De Winter, Lior Gal & Luc Praet.Read more -
A ppr oc he 2024
Antoine de Winter / Followers 7 - 10 Nov 2024Hangar Gallery participated in the 8th Edition of Approche with the artist Antoine De Winter. Antoine De Winter's practice questions the production of photographic images through experimentation with the medium, the materials used and their layout in space. In his latest project, Followers (2024), Antoine De Winter explores self-representation in the age of social networks and artificial intelligence, using traditional photographic techniques. After collecting stolen portraits from fake Instagram user profiles, Antoine then compiled them via AI software to recreate a synthetic image, close to the original yet so distant. Transposed in cyanotype on fabric and modeled in relief with beeswax, these faces acquire a disquieting presence whose blue echoes the blue light of screens. Other faces are revealed on gold-leafed glass plates, acting as icons of our contemporary narcissism. With Followers, Antoine De Winter creates images that evoke the ambiguous feeling of watching while being watched. He invites us to reflect on the duality between our desire for digital immortality and our fear of dematerializing our identity. a ppr oc he - 8th editionRead more