Jacob Rutger (Job) Koelewijn (born

Spakenburg Spakenburg is a Netherlands, Dutch village north of Bunschoten. Spakenburg is formally called Bunschoten-Spakenburg since its fusion with Bunschoten. The village lies south of the IJsselmeer in the municipality Bunschoten, Utrecht province, Utrec ...

, February 15, 1962) is a Dutch artist, who works as conceptual artist, sculptor, installation artist, performance artist, and photographer.

Life and work

Koelewijn decided to become an artist in 1984 after he had been seriously injured in a traffic accident. The subsequent years became a quest for deepening of live. He studied at the

Rietveld Academy The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History The Instituut voor Kuns ...

in Amsterdam from 1987 to 1992, and then spent a year at the

Sandberg Institute The Sandberg Institute (Dutch: ''Sandberg Instituut'') is a postgraduate institution in Amsterdam that offers the master's programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. It is named after Willem Sandberg. Since 1995, the Sandberg Institute has been o ...

. In his graduation project, he let his family dressed in Spakenburg costume clean the exhibition pavilion by Gerrit Rietveld. In 1987 he settled in Amsterdam as independent artist. In 1996 he worked a period in the

MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution at 2201 Jackson Avenue in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution organizes the Sunday Sessions performance series, th ...

in New York, a center for contemporary art, which is attached to the

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. He then returned to Amsterdam. Koelewijn was awarded the

Charlotte Köhler Prize Charlotte Köhler Prize is a Dutch incentive award given to young talent (under the age of 35) in visual arts and theatre. The prizes, €30,000 each, were established in 1988 in honour of the actress and is annually given by the Prins Bernhard C ...

in 1996, the

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of the Amsterdam Arts Fund in 1999, the Westinghouse Art Prize in 2002, and the

Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art The Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences consist of 11 awards biannually bestowed by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The prizes are named in honor of Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder Gerard Adriaan Heineken, Freddy Heineken, ...

in 2006.Job Koelewijn heeft de Dr. A.H. Heinekenprijs voor de Kunst 2006 ontvangen voor 'zijn rijkgeschakeerde, poëtische oeuvre'.
at knaw.nl. Accessed 08.2015.

Work

Koelewijn his work consists of installations, photographs, objects and multiples. Many of his works appeal to several senses. For example, he makes use of baby powder, inhalation ointment, ice or cubes to express himself. He made a tombstone of baby powder with the inscription "Vitality," entitled "Marsman ... goodbye," and a room that he occupied entirely in poetry wrapped cubes. In 1996 Koelewijn had an exhibition called "Two openings" in the Fons Welters gallery in Amsterdam. For the artwork "The world is my oyster," he cut in a wall of the gallery a hole the size of a football, in which the viewer could watch into the neighbors garden of the gallery. In spring 2008 there was a retrospective of Koelewijn work at the

De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art The De Pont Museum is a contemporary art museum in Tilburg, North Brabant, the Netherlands. It was named after the lawyer and businessman Jan de Pont (1915-1987). After his death his estate provided for the establishment of a foundation (the Janivo ...

in Tilburg, entitled ''Loco Motion.'' The installation shown are linked to time without mercy and books, as carriers of knowledge, are uses as energy. The exhibition already starts at the square in front of the museum, where the artist confronts the audience with a mobile cinema but without the famous white cloth. Under music of

Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone ( , ; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, Orchestration, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 film score, scores for cinema and televisi ...

you just look at a square and lined sac.

References

External links

Job Koelewijn
at jobkoelewijn.nl. {{DEFAULTSORT:Koelewijn, Jacob Rutger 1962 births Living people Dutch contemporary artists Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni People from Spakenburg Dutch installation artists