Koen van den Broek Belgium, b. 1973

Overview

Koen van den Broek has established his presence by developing his own style crossing the boundary of the figurative and abstract, as one of the leading artists from Belgium, a historically significant repository of paintings over centuries and a pivotal place of the European contemporary art. Van den Broek has developed his own unique sense of abstraction with distinctive oil paintings of the modern urban landscape.

He studied architecture before completing MAs in Painting at several universities, exploring figurations of urban constructions such as signposts, car parks, grid-pattern pedestrian passages, bridges and borderlines of roads easily discovered in cities and their peripheries. ‘The sheer strength of observation’ he has developed as an artist consequently enables him to concentrate on manifesting the traits and significance hidden in symmetric elements and colors of the targets instead of simply regarding them as a substitute framework supporting the city to appropriately function. He has built a particular visual language based upon the observation of building facades and landscapes that are often neglected or forgotten. Being combined with his visual sensibility and original analysis, the landscapes which remain as photographs and their particular tones and uncertainty revealed only through the Polaroid camera not only create a new dimension of elevated sensitivity but provide the higher level of an uplifting idyllic experience difficult to come across within the recent environments of contemporary art.

 

Koen van den Broek currently lives and works in Antwerp in Belgium. He received a BA in Architect in KU Leuven and studied painting in St. Joost School of Art & Design, Breda, and in Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Belgium. He has participated in exhibitions at De Garage, Mechelen (2020), Museum Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Ghent (2019, 2011, 2010, 2008), Museum of Modern Art Weserburg, Bremen (2016), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2014), Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2008). His work is represented in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the USA, S.M.A.K., Museum of Modern Art Antwerp in Belgium, and Leeum Museum of Art, Busan Museum of Art in Korea.

Works
  • Koen van den Broek, Confused Sun 23, 2023
    Koen van den Broek
    Confused Sun 23, 2023
  • Koen van den Broek, Confused Sun 22, 2023
    Koen van den Broek
    Confused Sun 22, 2023
  • Koen van den Broek, Totem, 2022
    Koen van den Broek
    Totem, 2022
  • Koen van den Broek, Holiday in Cambodia, 2020
    Koen van den Broek
    Holiday in Cambodia, 2020
  • Koen van den Broek, Confused Sun 16, 2023
  • Koen van den Broek, Out of Line, 2022
    Koen van den Broek
    Out of Line, 2022
  • Koen van den Broek, Blue Rhythm, 2021
    Koen van den Broek
    Blue Rhythm, 2021
  • Koen van den Broek, Cliff, 2020
  • Koen van den Broek, Composition in Depth, 2021
    Koen van den Broek
    Composition in Depth, 2021
  • Koen van den Broek, L.A. Music Center, 2018
    Koen van den Broek
    L.A. Music Center, 2018
  • Koen van den Broek, Lock Down, 2020
  • Koen van den Broek, Madonna, 2013
    Koen van den Broek
    Madonna, 2013
  • Koen van den Broek, Manage, 2020
    Koen van den Broek
    Manage, 2020
  • Koen van den Broek, Palos Naranjas, 2020
  • Koen van den Broek, Serra Under the Rainbow, 2020
    Koen van den Broek
    Serra Under the Rainbow, 2020
  • Koen van den Broek, Cut Away #3, 2015
    Koen van den Broek
    Cut Away #3, 2015
  • Koen van den Broek, Glowing Day, 2017
  • Koen van den Broek, Office, 2015
    Koen van den Broek
    Office, 2015
  • Koen van den Broek, Silver Lining, 2021
    Koen van den Broek
    Silver Lining, 2021
  • Koen van den Broek, Waves #1, 2015
  • Koen van den Broek, Louvre Emirates #1, 2022
  • Koen van den Broek, Louvre Emirates #3, 2022
    Koen van den Broek
    Louvre Emirates #3, 2022
  • Koen van den Broek, Cannes #2, 2022
    Koen van den Broek
    Cannes #2, 2022
  • Koen van den Broek, Placement, 2020
    Koen van den Broek
    Placement, 2020
  • Koen van den Broek, 62 #2, 2005
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