Koert Vermeulen
| Koert Vermeulen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967 (age 50–51) Antwerp, Belgium |
| Occupation | Lighting designer |
| Website | http://www.actlightingdesign.com/ |
Koert Vermeulen (born 1967 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a lighting designer, with over 20 years of experience in the fields of architecture, entertainment and art installations.
Inspired by the modernity and creativity of his native city, Koert started his career in 1989, when he founded his first professional lighting & sound supply company. He started to conceive the lighting for nightclubs, concerts and fashion shows of Antwerp, he also discovered the world of corporate events.
After founding ACT Lighting Design in 1995, Koert started to expand his work to stage plays, urban operas, “sound & light” shows, fashion shows, such as “Décrocher la Lune”, in cooperation with artistic director Luc Petit. In 1999, Koert met Franco Dragone, and illuminates several projects for him, such as the prestigious Le Rêve, a show launched in April 2005 at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.
Koert also illuminates the corporate shows of Hermès, Coca-Cola, the National Bank of Belgium, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Ernst&Young, Siemens, Samsonite, Saatchi and Mercedes, and collaborates with artistic director Dirk Decloedt, and event agencies such as Any Performance, KCom, D-Side, DDMC and Guava. In 2011, Koert conceived the lightning design of Metinvest corporate show in Ukraine, which was directed by Luc Petit CREATION and produced by K-Events agency.
For 15 years, he has also ensured the visual design of I Love Techno in Ghent, the biggest indoor techno festival in Belgium, with 35.000 people attending each year.
Among many concert and live events lighting designers, Koert was chosen to conceive the light show of the concert in honour of the government of Albert II – King of Belgium, as well as to assure lighting and video projection of the opening ceremony of the Belgian presidency of the European Union in 2010. On these two projects, he collaborated with Frank Anthierens. “”, a musical based on songs of Charles Aznavour, which lighting video and content were also designed by Koert. The musical stayed eight months in Paris, before touring in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada in 2009.
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