Koen Van Den Broek

Koen van den Broek, born in 1973 in Bree, Belgium, graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Before, he had studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Breda and the HISK in Antwerp. He is looking back to a successful, international career, being active for more than 20 years. His major solo exhibitions were "This an Example of That", including works done together with John Baldessari, in the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2008); "Curbs and Cracks" in the SMAK (City Museum of Contemporary Art), Ghent (2010) and "Shadows" in the Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (2012). His paintings have been collected by basically every major Belgian collection (institutional as well as private), as well as by the Philara Collection, Dusseldorf, the Stoffel Foundation, Cologne, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, the Collection G2, Leipzig, the LACMA, Los Angeles, the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, the Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.