bio
Koen De Decker studied at the Rijksacademie Amsterdam at the end of the nineties. As an ambitious amateur mathematician he examines the geometric construction of rooms. This expressed itself as room-sized constructions in wood, metal or plastic pipes. Drawings and videos create at first sight a counterbalance to the (pseudo)scientific rigidity of the installations. However, everything seems (literally) to come together in the eye of the artist. Via a video image of his own eye he confronts spectators with the often forgotten fact that art has in the first place to do with our (weak) perception.
(Hans Martens)
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2005
- 'Birds behave in space', Lineart, Ghent (Belgium)
- Crown Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
2004
- 'A Universal scale for all things', FLACC, Genk (Belgium)
- 'System, Story, Idea & all the rest is chaos', Window Gallery - Walter Van Beirendonck, Antwerp (Belgium)
2002
- 'Razzia in utopia', NICC, Antwerp (Belgium)
2001
- Netwerk Galerij, Aalst (Belgium)
2000
- CC Belgica, Dendermonde (Belgium)
1999
- 'Blind ambition', Villa De Bank, Enschede (The Netherlands)
- 'Gardening', N°25, Brussels (Belgium)
1998
- Gele Zaal, Ghent (Belgium)
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Group Exhibitions (selection)
2006
'UPDATE: de oorsprong', Kunstplatform Zebrastraat, Gent (Belgium)
'FREESTATE' 21/2006 Militair Hospitaal, Oostende (Belgium)
2005
'OK', first video biennale of Durban (South-Afrika)
'ARE WE CHANGING THE WORLD?', a collaboration project by Narcisse Tordoir, Extra City, Antwerp (Belgium)
'LOCUS LOPPEM', Kunsthalle Loppem (Belgium)
2004
'ONCE UPON A TIME', Een blik op kunst in de jaren '90, MuHKA/Antwerp(Belgium)
'UNDERCURENT', Platform Garanti, Istanbul (Turky)
'WORKING ETHICS', Krinzinger Projecte Vienna (Austria)
2003
'CLASS OF 2003', Vestfossen, kunstlaboratorium (Norway)
'MATCHINE-MATCHINe.(02)', London (U.K.)
'MATCHINE-MATCHINE.(01)', Hackney Wick /London (U.K.)
'SPLIT, PICK UP', STUK/Leuven(Belgium)
2002
'A HAUNTED HOUSE OF ART', Outline Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'FAKE OR REAL', stichting Outline & NP 40. Amsterdam, (The Netherlands)
2001
'CENTURY CITY. ART AND CULTURE IN THE MODERN METROPOLIS', Tate Modern/London (U.K.)
'V L A M.' Aalst, Netwerk2 (Belgium)
'INSIDER TRADING', The Mandeville Hotel/Londen (U.K.)
2000
'SCRATCHING MEMORY'. SMART Project Space Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1999
'GOODBADHAPPYSAD'. Open ateliers. Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'JARS 1.', Kunstencentrum Sittard (The Netherlands)
'SPEELHOVEN 99'. Aarschot, Speelhoven (Belgium)
'Trafique.', Ghent (Belgium)
1998
'OPEN STUDIOS', Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'IK WAS VIER IN 75.' 12 jonge Belgische kunstenaars. curated, NICC/Antwerpen (Belgium)
1997
'Big blue', café/London (U.K.)
biblio
FLAC© - Centrum voor kunsten en beeldcultuur. Jaarboek 2004. Genk: FLAC© - Centrum voor kunsten en beeldcultuur, 2005
De Decker Koen, Birds behave in space, Gent: S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, 2005
Van Bellingen Stef, 'A universal scale of all things', in: FLAC© - Centrum voor kunsten en beeldcultuur. Jaarboek 2004. Genk, 2005
Grasduinen 02. Actuele kunst in Bredene in het kader van S.M.A.K-aan-Zee, Bredene 2004
Matchine Matchine, London, 2003
STAAL. made in Belgium, Yvetot : Galerie Duchamp, 2003
Netwerk Galerij Handleiding 01-02, Aalst: Netwerk Galerij, 2002
FS.01 NICC. Koen De Decker, Antwerpen: NICC, 2002
Willemsen Paul, Argos Festival 2001, 2001
'Terugkijken wordt de kunst. Koen De Decker: ver-en bevreemdend', in: De Morgen jrg. 23, 2001
'Razzia in utopia. Koen De Decker als eerste in Freespace', in: De Morgen, 2001, 02/08 - pp. 24
'VLAM', in: Netwerk Galerij. Handleiding 00-01. Aalst, 2001
1999
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
works
The chamber
Installation with fluorescent ropes and black lights, in cooperation with S.M.A.K., Bredene grasduinen
The (e)state wer'e livin' in
Installation with bamboo sticks and elastics, Locus, Loppem
Koen De Decker
T: 02/514.01.23 (Crown Gallery)
M: 0475/52.18.72 (Crown Gallery)
F: 02/514.01.23 (Crown Gallery)
E: koen.de.decker@telenet.be
W: www.koendedecker.com
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1000 Brussel, België
