Koen Taselaar

Koen Taselaar (b. 1986) is a visual artist based in Rotterdam who primarily works with drawing, printmaking and, more recently, ceramics. Taselaar graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2008. His work targets hands-on and direct media that allows a certain intuitive approach, conveying a vivid curiosity about the surrounding world rather than focusing on rigid conceptual ideas. Although he has had an academic education, he loves the naive and has a do-it-yourself mentality. With regard to the norms prevailing in the art world, Taselaar adopts a stubborn, slightly mocking attitude, which is evident in the jokes and language in his work.