About:
Piet Goethals (born in Ghent, Belgium) is a master of History of Art and Art Philosophy and a bachelor in Dutch and English literature and language. He made his paper about Fiction and Reality in Film, illustrated by Zulawski’s ‘L’important c’est d’aimer’. After university he studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium.
Piet Goethals works as a film- and art critic (as well as a photographer). He was foreign correspondent for ‘Screen International’ and ‘Variety’ and published articles in : ‘Knack’; ‘Trends’; ‘De Morgen’; ‘De Tijd’; ‘Apollo’; ‘Feeling’; ‘Stijl / Talkies’ and ‘Apache’.
He published (and still publishes) photographs in several newspapers and magazines in Belgium and abroad, such as: ‘Knack’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Trends’, ‘Gentleman’, ‘Weekend’, ‘Deng’, ‘Teek’, ‘Cahiers du Cinéma’, ‘Parkett’, ‘Studio’, ‘Première’, ‘Wire’, ‘Notes’, ‘De Standaard Magazine’, ‘De Tijd’, ‘De Morgen’, ‘Deze Week in Brussel’ en ‘Télé Moustique’. He’s also working for the agency’s Reporters and Isopix.
He specialises in portraits of directors (theatre and film), choreographers, artists, actors and musicians.
Books:
Bustehouder, 2003
F3 -Portraits, 2005
Belgische Cinema in Beeld (Images of Belgian Cinema), 2009
Exhibitions:
1994
‘Vooruit Geluid Festival’: portraits and concertphoto’s of the guests and musicians of the musicfestival in Ghent
1995
‘Filmfestival Ghent’: portraits of director’s and actor’s
1997
* Travelling group exhibition through Flanders about theatre photograph’s with pictures of Meg Stuart, organised by ‘VTI’
* Filmphotograph’s in ‘Sphinx’, Ghent
* Selected for the group exhibition at the Cannes Filmfestival for its 50th birthday.
1998
* ‘Bogardenkapel’, Bruges
* ‘Filmfestival of Brussels’ in Gorikshallen
* ‘Festspiele’ in Salzburg
2003-2004
* ‘BusteHouder’: travelling exhibition through Belgium with portraits of women -a project about women and breastcancer.
*’Berlinale 2004’: selected for group exhibition and catalogue ‘New Hollywood 1967-1976’
2005
‘F3’ in Caermersklooster, Ghent
2009
*‘Cinema Novofestival Bruges’ with portraits of filmmakers from South East Asia and Japan.
* ‘FotoMuseum Antwerpen’ (Museum of Photography Antwerp)
2010
‘Kunsthal St.Pietersabdij’, Ghent
2015
Six portraits of British directors and actors in the National Portrait Gallery, London.