Koen Doodeman
Koen Doodeman’s works are textile fabrics based on photographs that look like panel paintings from a distance.
The balancing act in their perception between photography, painting and textile object, between two-dimensional image and three-dimensional depth effect, is crucial for their reception.
His work covers a spectrum between painting and textiles, but it is never one hundred percent one or the other; Doodeman seeks the moment in between. He is interested in looking at a textile work from a painterly perspective and vice versa.
In terms of content, his works literally interweave abstract and representational motifs. Plants, sunsets or abstract patterns stand side by side and merge into a unified composition.
Koen Doodeman is the winner of the Royal Prize for Painting of the Netherlands, where his works are represented in numerous museum and private collections.
Selected Works
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Koen Doodeman
Sensut III, 190 cm x 130 cm, 2024 -
Koen Doodeman
Strelitzia V, 190 cm x 130 cm, 2024 -
Koen Doodeman
Strelitzia II, 245 cm x 185 cm, 2024 -
Koen Doodeman
Strelitzia VI, 165 cm x 110 cm, 2024
Exhibitions
… and beyond Painting ‒ Koen Doodeman, Hadassah Emmerich, Inna Levinson
-structures ‒ Andreas Bischoff, Koen Doodeman, Marcel Frey, Toulu Hassani, Erika Hock, Martin Klimas, Fay Nicolson, Berit Schneidereit, Sara Sizer
-Curriculum Vitae (CV)
BIOGRAPHY
1987
Born in Heemskerk, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam
EDUCATION
2023
Albers Foundation – West Cork, Ireland
2017
ACC Gwangju – South Korea
2015 – 2016
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
Grenswerk, DDR kazerne Tripkau, Germany
2005–2009
HKU Utrecht, NL, Bachelor Visual Art and Design and Education
AWARDS
2014
Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst, The Netherlands
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
… and beyond Painting, COSAR, Düsseldorf (DE) group
2023
Sensuts, Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) solo
Turbulentie, Studio Omstand, Arnhem (NL) group
2022
Smoke and Mirrors, SCHUNCK, Heerlen (NL) group
2020
Non Radar, Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) solo
Structures, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf (DE) group
A rose is a rose, Rozenstraat Amsterdam (NL)
2019
Easy care holiday hair, Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam
ART Rotterdam – Galerie Dudok De Groot
2018
New arrivals – SCHUNCK* Museum Heerlen
Unfair – Westergasfabriek Amsterdam
2017
Paint it soft – Schunck Heerlen
A working title is also a title – Moë Vienna, Austria
Stretch Release – Durst Britt Mayhew Gallery, The Hague
Young New Painters – Ornis A Gallery Amsterdam
2016
Open Studio’s – Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam
2015
Open Studio’s – Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam
Royal Club – Academiegalerie HKU Utrecht
Amsterdam Art Fair – Citroengarage – PS Projectspace
2014 – 2015
DRESS ACT – solo show – PS Projectspace Amsterdam
2014
BuildingBuilding IIIB ‘exchange project’ – Artist Run Initiative Das Areal Dresden
with Artist Run Initiative Das Spectrum – Utrecht
Royal Painting Award 2014 – Royal Amsterdam
BuildingBuilding IIIA ‘exchange project’ – Artist Run Initiative Das Spectrum
with Artist Run Initiative Das Areal Dresden – Dresden, Germany
BuildingBuilding II – Artist Run Initiative Das Spectrum Utrecht
2013
Royal Painting Award 2013 – Royal Palace Amsterdam
HAMMER HAMMER HAMMER (work songs) – with Artist Run Initiative FRAST in Das Spectrum Utrecht
Duo show with Maarten Dekker – Art Traverse De Bilt
'five stars' show – Utrecht
Nieuw Naos at Art at the Warehouse – Fenixloods Rotterdam
2012
Building Building – with Artist Run Initiative FRAST in Das Spectrum Utrecht
2011
ART Fair Amsterdam 2011 – GIST Gallery Amsterdam
Project ‘Plat Universum’ – Phoebus Gallery Rotterdam
2010
We Like 6% – Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam
Duo show met Maarten Dekker – Utrecht University FEM
Royal Painting Award 2010 – Royal Palace Amsterdam
HeART Twente, Hengelo – GIST Gallery Amsterdam
Wish-is-in-design – RC de Ruimte Amsterdam
Duo show met Judith Hettema – GIST Gallery Amsterdam
ART Fair Amsterdam 2010 – GIST Gallery Amsterdam
Balans 2010 – Exposorium Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ZOOM – GIST Gallery Amsterdam
RC de ruimte – Curated by Hannie and Ben Loerakker, IJmuiden
2009
Grenswerk 2009 – ArtSpace Flipside Eindhoven
Quatre Bras – GIST Gallery Amsterdam
Best of Graduates 2009 – Ron Mandos Gallery Amsterdam
HKU Graduation show Utrecht
2008
Opening show Artist Run Initiative Das Bilt Utrecht
2007
Classwork – Academie Galerie HKU, Utrecht
COLLECTIONS
E.ON Art Collection
Collection SCHUNCK, Heerlen
Collection De Heus-Zomer
Collection Munsters
KPMG
Dutch Royal Collection
Voorlinden Museum
Akzo Nobel collection
Private Collections
TEACHING
2017 – now
Lecturer at Utrecht University of the Arts
2018
Guest lecturer at Rietveld Academy of the Arts, Amsterdam
2010 – 2015
Lecturer at Utrecht University of the Arts