Koenraad Dedobbeleer

Koenraad Dedobbeleer

BornNationalityBased In
1975BelgianBrussels
Biography

Koenraad Dedobbeleer constructs sculptural environments, often resembling elements of 1970s Space Age interior design, futuristic aesthetics for an imagined realm. Assembled together with Dedobeleer's original fabrications, his installations incorporate humorous modifications and recontextualisations of readymade objects. Through placing formerly mundane articles within the artist’s constructed worlds, he elevates and liberates them from their formal quality and function, asking the viewer to reevaluate them in a new context. This play between original sculpture and transformed object creates intriguing dynamics and contextual rifts, questioning the value and provenance attributed to objects, and how they can be altered within fresh frames of reference. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Victims of Structural Change Can Also Be Intolerant
Koenraad DedobbeleerVictims of Structural Change Can Also Be Intolerant, 2019139.7 x 55.88 x 55.88cmPrice on Request
What Is Manipulated Is the Real Rather Than the Symbolic – Made in China
Koenraad DedobbeleerWhat Is Manipulated Is the Real Rather Than the Symbolic – Made in China, 2019200.02 x 299.72 x 59.69cmPrice on Request
A Society that Believes Commerce Is Virtue
Koenraad DedobbeleerA Society that Believes Commerce Is Virtue, 2020137.16 x 19.05 x 24.13cmPrice on Request
It Is Unironically Disturbing
Koenraad DedobbeleerIt Is Unironically Disturbing, 2022220 x 130 x 140cmPrice on Request
A Living Symbol of the Lurking Failure
Koenraad DedobbeleerA Living Symbol of the Lurking Failure, 202295cm ⌀53cmPrice on Request
Life Is Nothing But Dead and Taxes, All the Trees that Get the Axes
Koenraad DedobbeleerLife Is Nothing But Dead and Taxes, All the Trees that Get the Axes, 202276cm ⌀35cmPrice on Request
What You Speculate Beyond that Is Pure Nonsense
Koenraad DedobbeleerWhat You Speculate Beyond that Is Pure Nonsense, 202260cm ⌀26cmPrice on Request
It’s Symbolic Role as Polite Vortex of Sedentary, Liberal Consensus
Koenraad DedobbeleerIt’s Symbolic Role as Polite Vortex of Sedentary, Liberal Consensus, 202250cm ⌀40cmPrice on Request
Aesthetic Luddities
Koenraad DedobbeleerAesthetic Luddities, 202275cm ⌀32cmPrice on Request
Destroying the Past, Present and Future Too
Koenraad DedobbeleerDestroying the Past, Present and Future Too, 202250cm ⌀30cmPrice on Request
A New Cult of Impersonality
Koenraad DedobbeleerA New Cult of Impersonality, 202280cm ⌀28cmPrice on Request
An Uncanny, Untutored and Unerring Sense of what Simply Works
Koenraad DedobbeleerAn Uncanny, Untutored and Unerring Sense of what Simply Works, 202266cm ⌀47cmPrice on Request
Disastrously Misplaced Optimism
Koenraad DedobbeleerDisastrously Misplaced Optimism, 202256cm ⌀35cmPrice on Request
A Commodity as Well as an Agency of Change
Koenraad DedobbeleerA Commodity as Well as an Agency of Change, 202240 x 30cm ⌀30cmPrice on Request
With a Sort of Furious Patience
Koenraad DedobbeleerWith a Sort of Furious Patience, 2022163 x 33cmPrice on Request
A Generation Politicised by Increasing Adversity
Koenraad DedobbeleerA Generation Politicised by Increasing Adversity, 2022220 x 38cmPrice on Request
Our Present Age of Sophisticated Fatalism
Koenraad DedobbeleerOur Present Age of Sophisticated Fatalism, 202252 x 38cm ⌀28cmPrice on Request
The Neurotic, Morally Dubious Modernistic Stiffness
Koenraad DedobbeleerThe Neurotic, Morally Dubious Modernistic Stiffness, 202295 x 40cm ⌀45cmPrice on Request
Impatient at Mankind’s Failure to Perfect Itself Overnight
Koenraad DedobbeleerImpatient at Mankind’s Failure to Perfect Itself Overnight, 2022104cm ⌀50cmPrice on Request
Experimentation Is Considered Profligate, Decadent and a Distraction
Koenraad DedobbeleerExperimentation Is Considered Profligate, Decadent and a Distraction, 202267 x 33 x 33cmPrice on Request
Avant-garde Is the French for Bullshit
Koenraad DedobbeleerAvant-garde Is the French for Bullshit, 202274cm ⌀30cmPrice on Request
The Equivalent of an Adult Still Living with its Parents
Koenraad DedobbeleerThe Equivalent of an Adult Still Living with its Parents, 202260cm ⌀36cmPrice on Request
Populist and Yet Brazenly Concealing their True Values
Koenraad DedobbeleerPopulist and Yet Brazenly Concealing their True Values, 202255cm ⌀30cmPrice on Request
A Reflective Surface Affirms
Koenraad DedobbeleerA Reflective Surface Affirms, 202260cm ⌀41cmPrice on Request
Written Up in the Accepted Arthouse Vernacular of Critical Validation
Koenraad DedobbeleerWritten Up in the Accepted Arthouse Vernacular of Critical Validation, 2023172 x 42 x 42cmPrice on Request
It Is Unironically Disturbing
Koenraad DedobbeleerIt Is Unironically Disturbing, 2022220 x 130 x 140cmPrice on Request
The Future Will Be Like the AQ-resent, Only More So
Koenraad DedobbeleerThe Future Will Be Like the AQ-resent, Only More So, 202350cm ⌀39cmPrice on Request
The Trompe l’oeil of a Peaceful, Moderate and Consensual Society
Koenraad DedobbeleerThe Trompe l’oeil of a Peaceful, Moderate and Consensual Society, 201974.93 x 25.4 x 25.4cm11000 EUR
Showering Them with Screeds of Adjectival Praise
Koenraad DedobbeleerShowering Them with Screeds of Adjectival Praise, 202253cm ⌀34cm18000 EUR
To Retire into Retrospection
Koenraad DedobbeleerTo Retire into Retrospection, 202218000 EUR
Gallery Representation
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New York City
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