Koen Vermeule

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Koen Vermeule (* 1965 in Goes ) is a Dutch painter .

Life

He began his artistic training in 1983 at Tehatex in Tilburg . In 1988 he graduated from there. From 1990 to 1992 he attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam . In 1994 he received the Charlotte Köhler Prize and in 2017 the Sacha Tanja Art Prize. He teaches as a lecturer at the ArtEZ Academie voor Art & Design Enschede . He was visiting professor at various art academies such as the Rietveld Academie Amsterdam , the Academie Minerva Groningen and the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten The Hague .

Koen Vermeule lives and works in Amsterdam.

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The artist's means of expression include paintings that he paints in oils and acrylics on canvas, as well as gouaches . On the whole, his motifs can be divided into two groups. On the one hand, it depicts people, often young people, in public space. On the other hand, it depicts wide, flat landscapes with a distant horizon. Frequent landscape motifs include large expanses of water, beaches, the heavily furrowed soil of fields and dunes. The emphatically painterly application of paint in the form of frayed brushstrokes or streaky color gradients corresponds to a sometimes unrealistic color scheme (e.g. green waves and black sky or black earth). Typical for the representation of people are pictures with individual people who are completely turned to themselves, often also recumbent. In other of Vermeule's paintings, people are grouped together in small groups. The diverse relationships between people are expressed through gestures , facial expressions , the direction of gaze, the posture and the distance between the portrayed. Such a group of two girls, who were painted in an everyday but also puzzling relationship to one another, can be seen in the painting "Iceland" from 2011. In this, as in other pictures, the characters, while not looking at each other, turn their attention to each other in a casually familiar way . A recurring detail is the occupation of those depicted with portable electronic devices such as smartphones or laptops .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 Wanderlust , De Kunsthal, Rotterdam
  • 2016 Soul Shades , Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam; Yume ne uchi / In een droom , Joris Geurts and Koen Vermeule, VanGoghhuis, Zundert
  • 2015 Wanderlust , Wittenbrink Gallery , Munich
  • 2013 Mirror Me , Galerie Borzo modern & contemporary art, Amsterdam
  • 2012 Wittenbrink Gallery, Munich
  • 2011 High above Ground , Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; Roaming, Galerie BORZO, Amsterdam
  • 2009 Global Nomads , DSM Art Collection, Sittard; Out and About , Tanya Rumpff Gallery, Haarlem
  • 2008 Global Nomads , Hideki Iinuma & Koen Vermeule, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
  • 2007 Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
  • 2006 Spinning , Galeria MasART, Barcelona; Koen Vermeule, Nieuw werk , Steendrukkerij, Amsterdam
  • 2005 Nieuw werk , Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
  • 2004 Wachten in stilte, Waiting in Silence , Museum De Beyerd, Breda

Collections (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Marente Bloemheuvel, Hans den Hartog Jager, Ulrich Bischoff , Cornel Bierens: Koen Vermeule. High Above Ground. WBooks, Zwolle 2012.
  • Eckhard Hollmann, Christoph Tannert, Heike Endter: Koen Vermeule. Dreamer. Berlin: Jovis, 2012.
  • J. Benschop: Koen Vermeule. Berlin: Galerie Fahnemann, 2007.
  • E. Stegeman: Koen Vermeule. Wachten in stilte, Waiting in Silence. Breda: De Beyerd, 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Vermeule, Koen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Goes