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Galerie St-Hilaire presents L'ARCHIPEL D'UN AUTRE MONDE, the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by Dutch artist KOEN TASELAAR, featuring a series of large-format tapestries and drawings.
Koen Taselaar (born 1986) is primarily a draughtsman, but also a versatile artist who expresses his graphic universe through various media such as tapestries, ceramics, drawings and screen prints. His unique language, which combines humour, abstraction and visual storytelling, finds a preferred field of activity in tapestry art, in which he often creates monumental ‘visual narratives’. Examples include his 19-metre-long tapestry on the theme of the apocalypse, which was the centrepiece of his solo exhibition End And, recently on display at the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré (CCC OD) in Tours (F), or the 9-metre-long tapestry commissioned by the TextielMuseum in Tilburg (NL) to mark the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus.
Koen Taselaar's visually open world draws on recognisable contemporary elements, allusions to everyday life, the world of film and comics, as well as classical references from our past. He excels in his ability to forge connections, to intertwine different time frames and superimpose them, reproducing this same skill in the way he interweaves patterns.
Born in 1986, Koen Taselaar lives and works in Rotterdam (NL). A 2008 graduate of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Taselaar has exhibited his work in several institutions in the Netherlands, including the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, as well as abroad.He has completed residencies in Kolkata (India), Seoul (South Korea) and Jingdezhen (China). In 2020, Taselaar was commissioned by the Hermitage Museum Foundation in Saint Petersburg (Russia) to create an 8-metre-long tapestry, The Cat, the Herring and Other Stories from the Neva, which tells the story of Tsar Peter the Great.
Also active in the field of contemporary ceramics, a medium in which his playful and colourful imagination also finds expression, Taselaar recently enjoyed an artist residency at the Casa Museo Jorn, the museum of Danish artist Asger Jorn in Albissola Marina on the Ligurian coast near Savona (Italy), where a solo exhibition dedicated to him will open on 29 November 2025.
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