Slewe Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition featuring new sculptures by artist Krijn de Koning (b. 1963, NL). Known for his colorful site-specific architectural installations, De Koning will present one large sculpture at the gallery and several new small interactive objects, including a kind of “tumbling works” that can be turned over and placed on different sides, and a work made up of various blocks that can be rearranged to create your own composition. The exhibition opens on Friday, 6 September, and runs until 5 October.

Krijn de Koning explores how we experience architectural space. Typically, De Koning creates site-specific works that challenge the specific characteristics of a given location. More than just spatial interventions, these works are homogeneous structures best defined as sculpture, yet they also embody qualities of painting and architecture. In this exhibition, a number of small sculptures are displayed. De Koning invites the audience to play an interactive role by tumbling and rearranging the sculptural elements to create their own configurations.

De Koning studied at Ateliers 63 in Haarlem and the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Sikkens Prize. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Folkestone Triennial in 2014 and the Beaufort Triennial in Ostend in 2009. He has realized major installations at the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam in 2010, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2011, and the submarine base in Saint Nazaire in 2018. Currently, he has a large installation in the park at Compton Verney, near Birmingham. His work is held in various important private collections, such as the Jean-Philippe & Françoise Billarant Collection, and in public collections including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans, Centraal Museum, Museum Voorlinden, and AkzoNobel Art Collection in the Netherlands, as well as FNAC and FRAC collections in France.