Koen Hauser (the Netherlands, 1972) is a contemporary artist who works across photography, moving image, book making, installation and sculpture.
The photographic work Birth was on show in the group exhibition One of a Kind︎︎︎ at the Ravestijn Gallery.
The photographic work Birth was on show in the group exhibition One of a Kind︎︎︎ at the Ravestijn Gallery.
Incorporating or paraphrasing the archival, the work of Koen Hauser entwines visual clichés, conceptual notions, psychology, mythology and the phantastical.
Craftmanship and techniques both old and new, function as a catalyst in the working process that he considers a ritual of imagination. In this sense, his current artistic practice revolves around the relations between the way he processes photographic material and psychological and philosophical themes.
The result – described by several art critics as postmodern alchemy – gives equal importance to the conceptual and the aesthetical, the scientific and the intuitive.
Craftmanship and techniques both old and new, function as a catalyst in the working process that he considers a ritual of imagination. In this sense, his current artistic practice revolves around the relations between the way he processes photographic material and psychological and philosophical themes.
The result – described by several art critics as postmodern alchemy – gives equal importance to the conceptual and the aesthetical, the scientific and the intuitive.