Koen van den Broek

Koen van den Broek
Season A
2025
280 x 205 cm

Koen van den Broek
Season B
2025
280 x 205 cm

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Season C
2025
280 × 205 cm

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Season D
2025
280 × 205 cm

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E.A.
2025
90 × 120 cm

Koen van den Broek
Who's Afraid of White, Blue & Red
2025
90 × 120 cm

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Broken Green Shadow
2025
200 × 150 cm

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Broken Purple Shadow
2025
200 × 150 cm

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Vein
2024
150 × 100 cm

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Tar On Gas
2025
105 × 70 cm

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Spring
2025
150 × 100 cm

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Surf
2025
150 × 100 cm

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Southern
2025
90 × 120 cm

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Sunny Side Up
2025
150 × 100 cm

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Solar Eclipse
2025
150 × 100 cm

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Subside
2025
150 × 100 cm

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V-R
2025
90 × 120 cm

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Dot
2023
80 × 60 cm

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Firminy #1
2023
162 × 120 cm

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Firminy #2
2023
180 × 135 cm

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Firminy #8
2023
180 × 135 cm

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Stations Red And Blue
2023
120 × 162 cm

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Stations Blue and Green
2023
135 × 100 cm

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Broken Road #2
2023
135 × 100 cm

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Broken Road #3
2023
115 × 88 cm

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South Park #1
2023
180 × 135 cm

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Bacon
2023
80 × 107 cm

Between the summer of 2023 and the publication of the monograph 'Out of Place' in November 2023, there was a landslide in Koen van den Broek's artistic evolution. This extensive publication, accompanied by an equally voluminous text by Prof. Dr. John C. Welchman (University of California, San Diego), guides the reader through the twenty-five-year career of painter Koen van den Broek. At the core of Van den Broek's practice is the translation of his own photographic originals into oil paint on canvas, to the extent that the resulting paintings and the re-captured photographs are at times scarcely distinguishable. A distinctive aspect of Van den Broek's work is his photographic gaze, which explores shadows and perspective, often adopting a bird's-eye view to scrutinize humankind's influence on the landscape.

Since the summer, however, Koen van den Broek appears to have been bending or breaking this very ground rule. No longer confined to translating the artist's framed reality onto canvas, he now directly engages with the raw canvas, using materials reminiscent of street workers—tar, asphalt, and traffic paint. In this sense, the newly created works may not seamlessly fit into the pages of the recently published monograph, but they retain a distinctive essence that is unmistakably Van den Broek's.

SELECTED WORKS (in chronological order)

Koen van den Broek
Twin Towers
1999
90 × 135 cm

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Harlem
1999
80 × 120 cm

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Red Border
1999
180 × 120 cm

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Yellow Border
1999
165 × 110 cm

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Blue Border (large)
2001
180 × 120 cm

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Two Shadows
2001
75 × 50 cm

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Broken Yellow Border
2003
195 × 130 cm

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Shadows and Blue Border #3
2003
210 × 140 cm

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Fork-lift Truck
2004
240 × 160 cm

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190 #1
2004
100 × 150 cm

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1000 Cracks
2004
110 × 165 cm

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Water Lilies
2004
100 × 150 cm

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Tepechitian
2004
120 × 117 cm

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Cut Out
2006
135 × 90 cm

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Solutions
2006
135 × 90 cm

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Violetta
2006
80 × 120 cm

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Geffen #2
2010
180 × 120 cm

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Nancy #4
2010
80 × 120 cm

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Madonna
2011
93 × 85 cm

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Disco #4
2012
200 × 250 cm

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O Neill #12
2013
210 × 140 cm

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Chamberlain In Holland
2014
165 × 110 cm

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Guard
2014
266 × 400 cm

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Borderlines Blue
2016
150 × 120 cm

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(Rear)Window
2017
88 × 115 cm

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Drive
2017
200 × 300 cm

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Placement
2020
180 × 135 cm

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Shaded
2020
140 × 200 cm

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Totem
2022
150 × 100 cm

COMPLETE ARCHIVE OF WORK

synthesis.pdf