Job Koelewijn

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  • → Job Koelewijn, 1995, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum

    → Job Koelewijn, 1999, Kiasma, Helsinki

    → History, Future, 2003, Galerie Fons Welters

    → Job Koelewijn, 2006, publication accompanying the Heineken Prize

    → “Kaleidoscoop (Job Koelewijn)” in PRESENT. Percentage for Art in the Netherlands 2004–2006, 2007

  • Solo shows

    2022

    → Job Koelewijn, Galerie Fons Welters

    2020

    → Job Koelewijn - A collection of works, Galerie Fons Welters

    2017

    → Job Koelewijn - Higher Contradictions, Galerie Fons Welters

    1995

    → Project Blow, Van Abbemuseum

    Group shows

    2019

    → The Classics, Galerie Fons Welters

    2016

    → 'Preview', Galerie Fons Welters

    2015

    → When I Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum

    → Days push off into nights, Spring Workshop

    → 1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial: Asia Time, Guangdong Museum of Art

    1994

    → Slow Whoop Siren, Galerie Fons Welters

    Fair booths

    2017

    → Galerie Fons Welters at Art Cologne 2017, Galerie Fons Welters

  • → Charlotte Köhler Prize, 1996

    → Sandberg Prize (Amsterdam Arts Fund), 1999

    → Westinghouse / Nebest Art Award, 2002

    → Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art, 2006

  • →https://www.jobkoelewijn.com/

Job Koelewijn is a conceptual artist whose work is at once intellectually driven and deeply sensory. Working across a wide range of forms, from site-specific, space-filling installations to video, photography, and sculpture, his practice consists of subtle interventions in reality that aim to intensify the experience of a place or moment. By engaging multiple senses simultaneously, Koelewijn creates heightened awareness, prompting viewers to recognize how perception itself is conditioned and to sharpen their mental focus.

Rejecting painting as too detached from real life, Koelewijn instead develops works that incorporate sound and smell to enrich and complicate visual experience. Notable examples include his perfumed baby powder installation at the Palazzo Ca’ Zenobio for the Venice Biennale in 2001 and the Internal Communication Amplifier (1997), a device that loops the user’s voice directly back into their own ears. His work is also strongly informed by literature and poetry, particularly writers such as Samuel Beckett and Dante, with textual references often appearing materially in his installations in the form of pages, fragments, or book covers.

Language is an important element in Koelewijn’s oeuvre and appears in his work in the form of poetry, literature, and philosophy. Since 2006, he has read aloud for 45 minutes each day as part of his Ongoing Reading Project (1 February 2006–present), approaching reading as a sustained exercise for the mind.

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