Frank Koolen, foto: Rob van Hoorn
Studio visits (online) Frank Koolen
As an extension of the monthly studio visit program, Stroom is initiating a new program: Digital Dialogues. Artists from The Hague enter into an online conversation (via Skype or Zoom) with an interesting artist or curator.
Artists from The Hague can now sign up for the first Digital Dialogue with artist Frank Koolen on Friday 22 or 29 May 2020. Frank Koolen describes his areas of interest as follows:
"I think there is always space for more links between elements before unlinked. Art is a great platform for that. It reaches out to everything else and creates paths between the personal and the universal.
If you decide to be part of its context you can decide what this context does for you and how you want to add to it. Take this very seriously and please try to see the relativity of things and take that very serious too! And I'm interested in a good story. Doesn't matter what it is about, how it looks or what it does.
A story can be a word, a gesture, a moment, a painting, a video, an idea. And I like things.
And I like to collaborate. But only if people take a collaboration deadly serious. And are not afraid to improvise in a good spirited way. And see the fun in that. So let's talk..:) "
Sign up
If you are interested in an online conversation about your work and artistic practice with Frank Koolen, you can let him know until Friday 15 May, no later than 15:00 in 2020. The responses received, together with any suggestions from Stroom, will be presented to Frank Koolen, after which he will make a choice. The interviews will take place via Skype (or Zoom) and there is limited availability. You will only be notified when you are selected by the artist for an online interview.
Short biography
Frank Koolen (b. 1978) is a visual artist. He studied autonomous visual arts at the HKU in Utrecht and was a resident at De Ateliers and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam.His way of working is characterized by sudden inspirations and associations related to a place, an encounter, a question or an idea that are then translated as directly as possible into an image, installation, film, performance, audio work, or text.An ongoing and context-related search for unexpected logic and everyday magic.In recent years Koolen has developed a multifaceted practice as an artist, teacher, studio leader, writer and curator with a boundless playing field from galleries to public space. Recent projects include building a temporary Karaoke Pavilion for psychiatric patients, creating an audio tour in the public spaces of Maastricht and Tilburg, devising a monument to the unknown pizza courier in the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp and a permanent Monument to Future Happiness in Drachten.