Koos Breen, Netherlands (2023)
Koos Breen stretches frontiers of disciplines and pushes them to edgy limits. He fluently shifts between being an art director, designer, and artist: continuously expanding his expertise and interests while...
Read full biographyKoos Breen stretches frontiers of disciplines and pushes them to edgy limits. He fluently shifts between being an art director, designer, and artist: continuously expanding his expertise and interests while challenging himself as much as the possible boundaries.
Koos hardly distinguishes between autonomous works and commissioned projects: different worlds intermingle and he thereby explores how objects and forms could function within a variety of disciplines, environments or scenes. He is trained as a graphic designer but his work has increasingly developed in other dimensions.
He works on commissioned graphic work as well as autonomous objects and spatial installations. The interplay between image and object, between physical and digital and between 2D and 3D forms the basis of his work. He often works with materials, tools and associated techniques outside the context of their original purpose. By placing them in different contexts, the boundaries of crafts and disciplines are explored and stretched.
Koos has been commissioned by royals and rappers as much as fashion designers and cultural institutions.
Exhibitions
Hybrid Habitabilities
2023
Etage Projects, Copenhagen
Royal Encounters
2022
Escher in het Paleis, The Hague
Demo Festival
2022
The whole country, Amsterdam
Motion Design Festival organized by Studio Dumbar. Curated by Liza Enebeis, Connor Campbell, YONK, Tim Rodenbroeker and Koos Breen
The Architecture of Staged Realities
2021
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Temporary House of Home
2021
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Colors, Etc.
2021
Tripostale, Lille
Kleureyck
2020
Design Museum Gent, Ghent
Extended Views: From Dusk to Dawn
2019
K11 Art Foundation, Guangzhou
Group Exhibition by Morph.Love Collective
Dissolving Views
2019
Alcova, Milan
Group Exhibition by Morph.Love Collective
Demo Festival
2019
Amsterdam Central Station, Amsterdam
Motion Design Festival organized by Studio Dumbar. Curated by Liza Enebeis, Xavier Monney and Koos Breen.
International Poster Exhibition
2016
Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Glasgow
tE 12 – Korean Society of Typography
2017
Doosung Paper Gallery, Seoul
Education
Tutor
- Undergraduate,
- Postgraduate
2023 – 2023
- HfG Karlsruhe (Germany)
MORF FROM FORM FROM MORF, a seminar for students of Communication Design, Product Design and Scenography departments. MFFFM is a collaborative, associative, morphological, transdisciplinary journey. In MORF FROM FORM FROM MORF, the students produce a diverse series of works using an associative, morphological method. Here they develop forms that emerge from other forms in an associative manner.
Lectures
Morf From Form From Morf
(2015)
- BNO IMG LAB Pioniers @ Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, The Netherlands
I Wonder You
(2016)
- Random Studio x Koos Breen @ FITC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Awards
2016
Other Professional Activities
Co-curator DEMO Festival
2019 – present
Zefir7 Member
2016 – 2018
Jury Poster Competition Graphic Design Festival Scotland
2017 – 2017