Koes Staassen
sensual drawings derived from intimate playful situations with friends & objects. effectively erotic, at times dangerous and always subversive.
Dolf Henkes Prijs 2021, Tent Rotterdam (photo: Aad Hoogendoorn)
Dolf Henkes Prijs 2021, Tent Rotterdam (photo: Aad Hoogendoorn)
My drawings function like still lives, combining bodies and objects. The objects take on symbolic value as they can be used to both adorn and threaten the body. In this form of drawing, there is no different priority given whether to an erect penis or a (fake) pearl; all are brought to the same level. This is the level of eroticism, where everything can be desired.
forthcoming videoportrait by Huub Verburg
The Color of Shame, 2014
Werk
Fertility
Curious Play I
Unfold II
Playing his Part
Trust I
Bio
2021 . Dolf Henkes prijs 2021, TENT Rotterdam (NL / group)
2020 . stubenhocker: post, Galerie Roy (DE)(group)
2020 . trust in me, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL)(solo)
2020 . Inboedel van Opzettelijk Vertoon, Kunstpodium-T Tilburg (NL)(group)
2020 . Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam (NL)(group)
2019 . Boys don't cry, Concordia Enschede (NL)(group)
2019 . 30 years of Dutch Courage, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL)(group)
2019 . Co/Lab4, Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles (US)(group)
2019 . On Desire and Fixations, Wallspace Eindhoven (NL)(duo with Jonathan Kok Wai Ho)
2018 . Singular Art Nijmegen (NL)(group)
2018 . De Man, Kunsthal KunstaanZ Deventer (NL)(group)
2017 . I unloose, dissolve, destroy, At7 projectspace Amsterdam (NL)(duo with M. Maria Walhout)
2017 . Oracles and Obsessions, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL) (group/curator)
2016 . Ties of Devotion, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL)(solo)
2016 . Kunst aan het Spaarne, Teyler's Museum Haarlem (NL)(group)
2016 . Niet eerder vertoond, Willem II Fabriek 's-Hertogenbosch (NL)(group/curator)
2020 . stubenhocker: post, Galerie Roy (DE)(group)
2020 . trust in me, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL)(solo)
2020 . Inboedel van Opzettelijk Vertoon, Kunstpodium-T Tilburg (NL)(group)
2020 . Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam (NL)(group)
2019 . Boys don't cry, Concordia Enschede (NL)(group)
2019 . 30 years of Dutch Courage, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL)(group)
2019 . Co/Lab4, Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles (US)(group)
2019 . On Desire and Fixations, Wallspace Eindhoven (NL)(duo with Jonathan Kok Wai Ho)
2018 . Singular Art Nijmegen (NL)(group)
2018 . De Man, Kunsthal KunstaanZ Deventer (NL)(group)
2017 . I unloose, dissolve, destroy, At7 projectspace Amsterdam (NL)(duo with M. Maria Walhout)
2017 . Oracles and Obsessions, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL) (group/curator)
2016 . Ties of Devotion, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam (NL)(solo)
2016 . Kunst aan het Spaarne, Teyler's Museum Haarlem (NL)(group)
2016 . Niet eerder vertoond, Willem II Fabriek 's-Hertogenbosch (NL)(group/curator)
