98. TIPS. June 1999. Presentation in the basement of Aannemersstraat 54. Drawing, Photography & Indirect Mailart Correspondence. Simultaneous a presentation by Larry Krone (US/New York).
crox-card 20. 1999.
110. BASICS 1. Group show with drawings. November 2003.
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145-1. BASICS 2. June 2005.
145-2. BASICS 2, sequel, Maagdedale Abbey, Oudenaarde. April 2006.
178. LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT. Solo presentation. May 2006.
PARTICLES. Crox-book 2, 2006. 80pp. 350x. Sold out.
crox-card 29. Oslo (2005), photo 36 x 27. 2006.
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crox-card 30. Until Death Do Us Part. 2006.
Member of the board from June 2006 to 2011. Joins the ALV. Editor.
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188. BRAINBOX 1. [3] With Peter Morrens and Ward Denys. October 2006.
VERZAMELWOEDE. Project at Maagdedale Abbey, Oudenaarde. 2007. TIPS.
299. ZENNESTRAAT 17a RUE SENNE. Coproduction with a.o. Secondroom, Fortlaan 17, Bains Connective. Alda Snopek, Christophe Lezaire, Johan De Wilde, Marc Coene, Steffie Van Cauter. April May 2009, Brussels.
crox-card 75. Memento vivere (2005). 2008.
477. VERF NA VAN EYCK [PAINT PAST VAN EYCK}. 2014.
crox-card 122. History 063. 2014.
485. LENS NA SPINOZA. [2] Triptych. Group show with Bram Van Stappen, Dirk Zoete and Patrick Everaert. 2015.
580–584549. Johan De Wilde & Christophe Lezaire. Location Zilverhof 34, October November 2017.
580. FOOD MATTERS. 43 artists 43 hosts 43 guests. Host: Pieter De Clercq. Guest: Bart Maris. 2018.
584. FOOD MATTERS the book. 2019.
from TOUGH GUY, SOFT SPOT - Review by Edith Doove about the projects by Larry Krone (crox 97) and Johan De Wilde (crox 98), De Standaard, 9 June 1999: --- After all this handywork the drawings of Johan De Wilde at first sight are reminiscent of cross-stitch patterns. In the basement of Croxhapox he shows part of a series of drawings he has been working on for some six years now.
The starting point is a square of 50x50cm. That is the foundation for an inventory of factual matters by means of landscapes, utensils, architecture and still-lives. All these images start from a painstakingly developed underlying pattern which De Wilde targets with time and memories. Each of these representations have a strong autobiographical background. The research for the place of self is also expressed in a mail art project where De Wilde sent letters to himself in all European countries. The bizarre hints De Wilde includes in his letters come back home empty-handed because obviously his Ghent address is unknown abroad.
PARTICLES crox-book NR 2 (May 2006) is the first book which is entirely in crox-format, apart from one small detail. 'In this book,' says the artist, 'are notes that originate in the periphery of my drawings’ - literally: short notes he scribbles during his hours of methodical and intensive drawing. Something about his modus operandi for example: the grid is blended in with the so-called representation. More or less as with the craquelures on a panel. The lines of the grid point at noise, disturbances. They influence memories, thoughts, the emergence of images. Tech savvy humanity removes grains and lines from the images. The real disturbance is in the forming of images as such. A clumsyness: the impossible as a sum of possibilities.' (op. cit. p.62)
La Belle au Bois Dormant, the second solo project of JDW (May 2006). Simultaneous with the project release of the second crox-book and two croxcards, 'Oslo' and 'Untill Death Do Us Part'. Apart from drawings and photos (the regular work) JDW presents also a series of approx 360 photos from > Oslo turned into a moviefilm. In two consecutive walks he travels the entire trajectory of the Akserselva, partly on the left bank, partly on the right, first from the city center in the direction of the source and then all the way back to the mouth. It probably wouldn't have been entirely similar if it were the Neckar in Trier: the river Akerselva, of very humble descent springs from a lake in the neighbourhood of Oslo and circles the proper city center southwards to discharge itself - after having flown beneath an industrial area for some time - in a southern fjord. Vincent D'Hondt composed a 40 minute emphasising the filmic essence of the slide projection.
At the first edition of BRAINBOX (Autumn 2006) it is the third unit - Ward Denys, JDW and Peter Morrens - which unleashes the actual essence of the brainbox process. It is the first unit proposing a collective work. (see > brainbox)