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CarolineCoolen

For sculptor Caroline Coolen (Bree, Belgium, 1975), the use of collage, montage, assemblage, and free association is a way to get a grip on reality. Her aim is to transform the outside world – or Umwelt, as she calls it – and to compress it into a single overall impression: sensitive and sensory like a plant, instinctive and intuitive like an animal, and rational and irrational like a person.

Her work is multisensory in nature: she connects the visual and the tactile with a range of textures and materials. She often presents her sculptures and large drawings as total installations. Some works, left unfinished for years, suddenly spring to completion after she adds new, complementary components.

Caroline Coolen is exhibiting works at Club Solo that are the result of her travels, such as Chum (2016), which combines an outdoor sculpture with a nomadic tent.

open wed – sun 11:00 – 17:00
official opening 6 feb 15.00

In response to Caroline Coolen’s solo exhibition, curator Jasmijn Yarram from Kunstmuseum Den Haag will show #367-5 by Awoiska van der Molen.

Awoiska van der Molen (Groningen, the Netherlands, 1972) travels to the most remote corners of the planet to create her near-monochrome photographic work. The travelling, photography, and analogue printing of large gelatin silver prints are all parts of a slow, meticulous process.

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€ 10,-

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Caroline Coolen, Culprits of death, 2022

The multiple by Caroline Coolen was made especially for this exhibition, in an edition of seven copies. Each copy is different. The work is for sale at Club Solo for €250.

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For sculptor Caroline Coolen (Bree, Belgium, 1975), the use of collage, montage, assemblage, and free association is a way to get a grip on reality. Her aim is to transform the outside world – or Umwelt, as she calls it – and to compress it into a single overall impression: sensitive and sensory like a plant, instinctive and intuitive like an animal, and rational and irrational like a person.

Her work is multisensory in nature: she connects the visual and the tactile with a range of textures and materials. She often presents her sculptures and large drawings as total installations. Some works, left unfinished for years, suddenly spring to completion after she adds new, complementary components.

Caroline Coolen is exhibiting works at Club Solo that are the result of her travels, such as Chum (2016), which combines an outdoor sculpture with a nomadic tent.

open wed – sun 11:00 – 17:00
official opening 6 feb 15.00