What critics have written about Geneviève Van der Wielen:


"... Paintings by Geneviève Van der Wielen carry you to a sort of parallel universe. A planet of its own, where the harsh realities of drugs, suicide, pain or solitude are bordering on fantasizing expressed by a smile, a look, a detail, an atmosphere...
... All of it always marked with sensuality, even eroticism, but never falling into vulgarity."

Ingrid Otto, Le Jour, March 3, 2006


" ... Beyond a form influenced by the Balthuses or Lindners, with a touch of Fellini-like zest, Geneviève Van der Wielen's approach will show to be in essence more than hyper-realistic in her catch of blunt realities that may be better left unsaid for the "honest people"; she will certainly disturb and arouse dignified disapproval and virtuous loathing with the mediocre, blissfully enveloped in the rancid nappies of etiquette and of soft certainties..."

Laurent Dispas


" ... She is at the same time herself - mysteriously out of fashion, ambiguous, and uncanny realist - and many others allusively: Botero's expressive monumentality, Balthus' diffuse sensuality, the vivid colours of African Art, without forgetting a touch of Clovis Trouille ..."

Jacques Parisse, La Dernière Heure, January 1988


" ... Daring colourist, superb drawer with a convincing series of smartly structured acrylic paintings, and guided by a ferocious and solar inspiration, in a humour without bitterness nor rage, but forcefully efficient..."

Nouvelles Errances d'un Badaud, August 1984


" ... These are rich and dense works, totally baroque, between pure realism, fantasy and pretended innocence...
.... Drawing remains the basis of all her paintings. It enables her to twist all her characters and to place them in unlikely situations ..."

La Libre Belgique, June 1984


" ... We kind of have the impression that in each painting the painter asks a question or raises an issue... Her work is however neither pornographic nor trivial. It is genuinely attractive, for its technique as much as for its originality..."

Liège, Province d'Europe, April 1977


"... Seldom has Woman been celebrated by a woman with so much fiery sensuality and audacious freedom ..."

Scop, October 1976