born 1975 in Brussels
lives and works in Brussels
About
Koenraad Dedobbeleer was awarded the Mies van der Rohe grant of the city of Krefeld in 2009. His work is regularly on view in national and international institutions and he also curates exhibitions. Dedobbeleer, who has made a name for himself as a conceptual artist, benefits from the practice of appropriation to question the autonomy of the artwork. Reflexion on conventional forms of presentation and mediation is also a vital concern.
The Belgian artist modifies the objects of daily life with minimal, but extremely effective means; he reinterprets them by placing them in a modernist or otherwise alien context and makes an unsettling impact by undermining their familiarity. Similarly, his large-scale installations are larded with allusions, ironic commentaries and art historical references. Koenraad Dedobbeleer describes his work as a multifaceted, open-ended experiment in both form and content, involving non-scientific inquiry into options. (Text: Dominique von Burg)