Koenraad Dedobbeleer: A Privilege of Autovalorization

Largely composed of objects, sculptures and photographs, the work of Koenraad Dedobbeleer (Halle, Belgium, 1975) is based on a close observation of urban reality, architecture and functional objects, but also takes into account the exhibition spaces and conventions that generally govern the presentation of art. The artist appropriates forms and objects that he comes across, submitting them to often minimal transformations, whether through the materials that he uses in their re-creation, their association with other objects and forms, alterations in their scale or the use of colour. Even when the appropriated models remain recognisable, the different modes of manipulation and decontextualisation (including the judicious insertion of the works in their exhibition context) afford his works an eminently abstract quality. Bringing together more than fifty works that he has produced since 2003, this is the most extensive and complex presentation of Dedobbeleer’s work so far.

Koenraad Dedobbeleer
A Privilege of Autovalorization
Kurator: Miguel Wandschneider