Inloggen
Registreren
NL
Dejong’s work is in line with the semiotic tradition that revolves around the exploring and studying of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. ‘I am fascinated by the traces and markmaking. The traces of life that surround us in our daily surrounding are telling us stories of something that once was or wil one day become’. By taking everyday signals and situations out of their initial context, decomposing them and studying them Dejong intends to raise questions around their original intent and our ways of living.
Most of Dejong’s work sources from his close living environment: the city. The urban landscape is planned. It is a structure with well inserted hints and instructions for its inhabitors to make use of it or how not to. One who looks beyond the encrypted sets and structures may find other aspects to it. Where do controversy and disruption within the planned landscape come at stake? Might this allow for a more free approach of the public
space, and a more complex reading of the city? When exploring the urban scape, Dejong tends to look for elements that show disruptive characteristics. Urban happenings that are dislocated, disjoint and show unruly city features, that do not stroke with their original intent or stand out.
In his book ‘Madness and Civilization,’ Foucault speaks about the institutionalization of mentally disabled people, who were in the renaissance to be seen as a different form of intellect rather than ‘crazy or mad’. They were seen as free spirits, not bounded by rules nor regulations. They ought to pose a kind of wisdom, because they demonstrate the limits of reason. ‘When I linger the public domain, I look for elements that display the madness in cities, situations that somehow demonstrate our own limits of reason. The moment when the planned, gets disrupted; when the beauty of incompetence shows itself’.
Most of Dejong’s work sources from his close living environment: the city. The urban landscape is planned. It is a structure with well inserted hints and instructions for its inhabitors to make use of it or how not to. One who looks beyond the encrypted sets and structures may find other aspects to it. Where do controversy and disruption within the planned landscape come at stake? Might this allow for a more free approach of the public
space, and a more complex reading of the city? When exploring the urban scape, Dejong tends to look for elements that show disruptive characteristics. Urban happenings that are dislocated, disjoint and show unruly city features, that do not stroke with their original intent or stand out.
In his book ‘Madness and Civilization,’ Foucault speaks about the institutionalization of mentally disabled people, who were in the renaissance to be seen as a different form of intellect rather than ‘crazy or mad’. They were seen as free spirits, not bounded by rules nor regulations. They ought to pose a kind of wisdom, because they demonstrate the limits of reason. ‘When I linger the public domain, I look for elements that display the madness in cities, situations that somehow demonstrate our own limits of reason. The moment when the planned, gets disrupted; when the beauty of incompetence shows itself’.
Kunstwerken
Articles
Media
Highlights
Over de kunstenaar
In collectie van
Tentoonstellingen
Marktpositie
CV
Articles on Kaspar Dejong
Tentoonstellingen
CV
Education and Residencies
2022 Raum 24/3, Berlin, DE
2019–2021 Master of Fine Arts, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Brick Five, Residency with Jakob Kolb, Vienna, AT
2015–2016 Escola Massana, Grau Universitari en Arts i Disseny, Barcelona, ES
2014–2017 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL
Exhibitions
2023 ‘Places Without Faces’, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
‘Connecting the Future’, DOTS Gallery, Belgrade, SRB
2022 ‘Imaginary mountains’, Scala Trun, CH
Dutch Design week, Venue Woppah, Eindhoven, NL
Sluijtersprijs, Kunstrai, Amsterdam, NL
‘Reading Between the lines’, Ballroom Gallery (solo), Brussels, BE
Art Rotterdam, Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery, Rotterdam, NL.
2021 Graduation show, Sandberg Institute Het Hem. Zaanstad, NL
Art Rotterdam Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, NL
Hypermarket Kunsthal, Ghent, BE
Ballroom Project, Antwerp, BE
2020 ‘I really wanna be with you’, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘Splendoribus Animam’, Big Art. Zaandam. With Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, NL
‘Following’, Josilda Da Conceicao gallery (solo), Amsterdam, NL
‘The Online Arch’, Torch gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘This place displaced’, DMW gallery, Antwerp, BE
‘Quarantine covid 19’, online Wu Han, Curated by Xavi Ceerre.
‘Outer limits’, Singular Art, Nijmegen, NL
‘New Horizons’, Tecla Sala, Barcelona, ES
2019 ‘Influence the Infuencer’, Torch gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘Big Art’, Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, Zaandam, NL
‘De-transform’, Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘Mythes’, Cwart, Knokke Heist, BE
Dapiran project space, Amsterdam, NL
Art Rotterdam, Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Glos Gallery (solo), Curated by Alexey Schifman, Tel Aviv, IL
This Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
Gwidettis world, ISO, Amterdam, NL
2018 ‘Traffic gaze’, DSM kunstcollectie, Sittard, NL
2017 Brick five gallery, Wenen, AT
‘Animals of adult sobriety’, Slash, Rotterdam, NL
‘Critical studies’, Bak, Utrecht, NL
2016 ‘Urban Labour’, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, ES
‘Synthesis for survival’, The Floor, Barcolona, ES
2015 Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, NL
2012 ‘Outdoor’, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, NL
Collections
Nationale Nederlanden NL
DSM Kunstcollectie, NL
MUMC Maastricht, NL
Dagblad de Limburger, NL
Private collections. NL
Grants & Prizes
2022 Buning & Brongers prijs (Nominee)
Sluijtersprijs (Nominee)
Mondriaan fonds Kunstenaar Start
Press
2022 24/3
De grote Kunstkalender
2021 In broad daylight
2020 Het Parool
Het Parool
H ART Magazine
De Limburger, DSM
2019 ArtMagazine
Lost Painters, Art Rotterdam
Mister Motley
The Void Magazine, Subbacultcha
Cwartaal, Kunstmagazine
Galleryviewer, de keuze van Kho & Ko
2018 DSM Traffic gaze
2017 Sum Shots Magazine
INDIE Magazine
Tijdschrift het ei, #53 Uitstellen
Creators Vice, Graduates Mister Motley
2022 Raum 24/3, Berlin, DE
2019–2021 Master of Fine Arts, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Brick Five, Residency with Jakob Kolb, Vienna, AT
2015–2016 Escola Massana, Grau Universitari en Arts i Disseny, Barcelona, ES
2014–2017 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL
Exhibitions
2023 ‘Places Without Faces’, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
‘Connecting the Future’, DOTS Gallery, Belgrade, SRB
2022 ‘Imaginary mountains’, Scala Trun, CH
Dutch Design week, Venue Woppah, Eindhoven, NL
Sluijtersprijs, Kunstrai, Amsterdam, NL
‘Reading Between the lines’, Ballroom Gallery (solo), Brussels, BE
Art Rotterdam, Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery, Rotterdam, NL.
2021 Graduation show, Sandberg Institute Het Hem. Zaanstad, NL
Art Rotterdam Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, NL
Hypermarket Kunsthal, Ghent, BE
Ballroom Project, Antwerp, BE
2020 ‘I really wanna be with you’, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘Splendoribus Animam’, Big Art. Zaandam. With Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, NL
‘Following’, Josilda Da Conceicao gallery (solo), Amsterdam, NL
‘The Online Arch’, Torch gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘This place displaced’, DMW gallery, Antwerp, BE
‘Quarantine covid 19’, online Wu Han, Curated by Xavi Ceerre.
‘Outer limits’, Singular Art, Nijmegen, NL
‘New Horizons’, Tecla Sala, Barcelona, ES
2019 ‘Influence the Infuencer’, Torch gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘Big Art’, Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, Zaandam, NL
‘De-transform’, Josilda Da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
‘Mythes’, Cwart, Knokke Heist, BE
Dapiran project space, Amsterdam, NL
Art Rotterdam, Josilda Da Conceicao gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Glos Gallery (solo), Curated by Alexey Schifman, Tel Aviv, IL
This Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
Gwidettis world, ISO, Amterdam, NL
2018 ‘Traffic gaze’, DSM kunstcollectie, Sittard, NL
2017 Brick five gallery, Wenen, AT
‘Animals of adult sobriety’, Slash, Rotterdam, NL
‘Critical studies’, Bak, Utrecht, NL
2016 ‘Urban Labour’, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, ES
‘Synthesis for survival’, The Floor, Barcolona, ES
2015 Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, NL
2012 ‘Outdoor’, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, NL
Collections
Nationale Nederlanden NL
DSM Kunstcollectie, NL
MUMC Maastricht, NL
Dagblad de Limburger, NL
Private collections. NL
Grants & Prizes
2022 Buning & Brongers prijs (Nominee)
Sluijtersprijs (Nominee)
Mondriaan fonds Kunstenaar Start
Press
2022 24/3
De grote Kunstkalender
2021 In broad daylight
2020 Het Parool
Het Parool
H ART Magazine
De Limburger, DSM
2019 ArtMagazine
Lost Painters, Art Rotterdam
Mister Motley
The Void Magazine, Subbacultcha
Cwartaal, Kunstmagazine
Galleryviewer, de keuze van Kho & Ko
2018 DSM Traffic gaze
2017 Sum Shots Magazine
INDIE Magazine
Tijdschrift het ei, #53 Uitstellen
Creators Vice, Graduates Mister Motley
Gratis Online Magazine
Artikelen, interviews, shows & events. Wekelijks bezorgd in uw mailbox.