Rietveld Academy Fine-Arts AV Amsterdam '89.
visual artist, art-installations/camera/
motion-graphics/edit/FX/sound.
lecturer post production at WITS Film&TV
Biography
Jurgen Meekel (1963, Amsterdam) is an audiovisual artist, filmmaker, and designer. He graduated cum laude in Audiovisual Art from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam after training in graphic design and printing techniques. His multidisciplinary work spans installation art, sculpture, animation, cinematography, post-production and sound art. Recent collaborations include the Playgroup sound collective and AV projection designs for the performing arts. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is part of the Central Museum for Modern Art’s collection in Utrecht. He teaches Film and TV at Wits University’s School of the Arts, where he earned his MA in Fine Arts with distinction in 2018.
Accolades include Naledi Award nominations for Best AV Design in 2015 and 2024 and a Gouden Kalf nomination (2002) for Best Long Documentary Starkiss, (Hyderabad, India). His sound work on Dabbah Wallah’s (Mumbai, India) won the Public’s Choice Award at IDFA (1999). Additional recognitions include Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival for Best in Beef, (2000), Best Artistic Design Award for Without Limits at the Free State Arts Festival (2024), Best Theatre Set and AV Design for A Street Taxi Named Desiree, State Theatre, and twice the Award for NIHSS Best Digital Humanities Collection in 2022 and 2024 for the online magazine herri. https://herri.org.za