Draft:Jeroen Kooijmans

Jeroen Kooijmans (February 2 1967, Schijndel) is a Dutch video and installation artist, mainly known for his film and video installations and so called interventions.

Biography
Kooijmans attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1991 to 1995 initially aspiring to be a painter, and experimented with video as it offered him more mobility within the frame. In 1994 Kooijmans's first video art piece Work (1994) was purchased by Rudi Fuchs of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Kooijmans continued to experiment with video art installation and projections and acquired a national acclaim by winning the NPS Cultuurprijs for his 'video-graffiti', a term Kooijmans coined for the large projections on public buildings and transport vehicles (trains and trucks). The video-graffiti functioned as a theatrical intervention, where pre-recorded scenes of dancing couples were projected from a car on walls near people passing by.

In 2001 Kooijmans was selected with a proposal for an arts project Floating Gardens; to make land in the air for a residency at MoMA PS1 in New York. There, Kooijmans witnessed the September 11 attacks which caused a change in his view of the world. Even though Kooijmans exhibited two video projections (Hotel New York, Listening to New Voices: PS1 National and International Studio Program Exhibition), recorded a movie (NPS), published a book (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and cooperated in several interdisciplinary efforts (Toneelgroep Amsterdam, MVRDV) in the capacity of video artist, his diligence to portray the world after 9/11 ceased. He took to traveling, mostly to Africa, India and Pakistan and eventually returned to Amsterdam. The period after Kooijmans worked on a trilogy 'The Fish Pond Song', where characters based on those of the panels The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch are subjected to the abominations of eternal warfare and reconciliation. The three parts were produced separately during seven years of filming, editing and building and were exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch during the celebration of 500 years of Bosch.

Style
The early video pieces show composition that is both cinematographic and painterly and a simplicity devoid of narrative. In these works (1994- 2002) Kooijmans mixes techniques of video, installation, (live) projection and intervention in both public and private spaces and crosses boundaries of the personal and professional, pop and high culture, in- and outdoors, home and abroad. Kooijmans later work is clearly more representative of the change in his worldview, more reflective of traveling and foreign cultures, and images of war. The poetic and painterly quality of the cinematographic installations refer to the work of his namesake Hieronymus and incorporate architectural elements as well.

Works

 * 'Work' (1994) : Video. Three workmen stand in a circular form and scoop sand only to deposit it in the other's pit (Time Based Arts section at the Stedelijk Museum).
 * 'Cloud Factory' (1996): Video. A factory absorbs clouds from the air (From here to reality-Index 2001).
 * 'Pilot' (1998): Video. Plane makes a looping before landing (Spinning- MIT List, 2002)Kooijmans, Jeroen (May 23, 2002).
 * 'Excuse me.. is this your room?' (2000)- Live and life-size projection of two lovers in a hotel room; projection is on real ‘setting’ of a hotel room in a museum. Live connection, lovers can see visitors on monitors and interact with them (Hotel New York- MoMA/PS1-2001).
 * 'Guards' (2002): Live video projection of two gnome sized security guards, who watch visitors on monitors in another space and interact with visitors as projections (Listening to new voices- MoMA/PS1, 2002).
 * 'It's about time' (2002): Book. (Stedelijk Museum, book presentation 2002; book is part of library collection).
 * 'New York is eating me & The Cactus Dance' (2005): film about New York, facial hair and 9/11 (After 9/11 - Stedelijk Museum, After 9/11 - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam).
 * 'The Fish Pond Song' (2016): Cinematographic installation with interactive architecture about war and reconciliation (Stedelijk Museum 's Hertogenbosch, 2016).

Links

 * https://jeroenkooijmans.com/ (official website)
 * LI-MA- Platform for new media art and digital cultures
 * MoMA: Jeroen Kooijmans