“I find a quiet joy in witnessing photographic images respond, transform, and reveal their own kind of magic. I work with images the way one listens to echoes – not to recover the past, but to let it reshape itself into something that speaks to the present. To me images are not representations but experiences, vibrating with meanings that surface before language.”
Biography
Koen Hauser (the Netherlands, 1972) engages in an artistic practice that spans across photography, video, book making, installation and sculpture.
He finished his Master of Science in social psychology (1996, Leiden University), later followed by studying photography at the Royal Academy of Art and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2002).
Until 2019 he worked both on autonomous art projects as well as editorial and commercial photography. Since then he focuses completely on his artistic practice.
He frequently collaborated with different cultural institutes, museums and archives such as the National Archive, kunstmuseum Den Haag and the Rijksmuseum. In this, he applied or referred to objects and stories from their collections. For instance in working with the Spaarnestad photo archive – housing over 13 million press images – and in collaboration with Bart de Baets he created his acclaimed book de Luister van het Land, which was nominated ‘Best designed book’ in the Netherlands.
As an art teacher he worked at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Willem de Kooning Academy. Since 2019 he teaches at The Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague.
His work is held in both national and international public and private collections, including kunstmuseum Den Haag (the Hague) and the Houston Center for Photography (USA). His work has been shown across Europe, the United States and China in various solo and group exhibitions including FOAM (Amsterdam), Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam), Institut Néerlandais (Paris, France) and the He Xiang Ning Art Museum (Shigzen, China).
Koen Hauser (the Netherlands, 1972) engages in an artistic practice that spans across photography, video, book making, installation and sculpture.
He finished his Master of Science in social psychology (1996, Leiden University), later followed by studying photography at the Royal Academy of Art and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2002).
Until 2019 he worked both on autonomous art projects as well as editorial and commercial photography. Since then he focuses completely on his artistic practice.
He frequently collaborated with different cultural institutes, museums and archives such as the National Archive, kunstmuseum Den Haag and the Rijksmuseum. In this, he applied or referred to objects and stories from their collections. For instance in working with the Spaarnestad photo archive – housing over 13 million press images – and in collaboration with Bart de Baets he created his acclaimed book de Luister van het Land, which was nominated ‘Best designed book’ in the Netherlands.
As an art teacher he worked at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Willem de Kooning Academy. Since 2019 he teaches at The Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague.
His work is held in both national and international public and private collections, including kunstmuseum Den Haag (the Hague) and the Houston Center for Photography (USA). His work has been shown across Europe, the United States and China in various solo and group exhibitions including FOAM (Amsterdam), Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam), Institut Néerlandais (Paris, France) and the He Xiang Ning Art Museum (Shigzen, China).