About

Koen Hauser is an artist whose practice revolves around the transformation of images. Working with an archive of photographic reproductions collected from old books, he takes images out of their original contexts and transforms them through editing, visual reconfiguration and three-dimensional translation. These processes give rise to photographs, sculptures, videos, publications and installations in which familiar images acquire new forms, meanings and identities.

Personal experiences of loss, isolation and alienation quietly inform this practice. Rather than appearing as autobiography, they have shaped a sensitivity to what is overlooked, distorted, misunderstood or difficult to articulate, and to the capacity of images to transform vulnerability and suffering into new forms of presence and meaning.

His practice draws on a background in social psychology, years of experience in applied and fashion photography, and his role as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Art. It reflects a lifelong fascination with the image as both subject and material, explored through the lenses of psychology, photography and philosophy.