Koen hauser biography of christopher

Koen Hauser works with photography and film to create his (b.1972, the Netherlands) intangible practice that flows between art, fashion, science and the archival.

There's always been a sense of illusion in Hauser's work; it was the new possibilities of digital manipulation that first inspired him to take.

There's always been a sense of illusion in Hauser's work; it was the new possibilities of digital manipulation that first inspired him to take.

Koen Hauser is born in 1972 in Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

In 2015, Christopher Smith created quite a buzz as an artist with self-portraits taken in his teenage bedroom using his mobile phone.

Born in 1973 in the Belgian town of Bree, Van den Broek first studied architecture and subsequently painting, initially at the Royal Academy of Antwerp and.

At college (KU Leuven) I started to study architecture and became very interested in how culture and urban life were being shaped.

Whilst some photographs are concerned only with its aesthetic appeal, others cast aside this preoccupation to forefront the idea behind the image. Regardless of purpose or context, Hauser’s work is always underpinned by his education in Social Psychology, entwining philosophy, mythology, animism, religion and spirituality into his work in a metaphysical manner.

Koen Hauser finished his Masters of Science in Social Psychology (1996, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden), later followed by studying photography at the Royal Academy of Art and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2002).

He frequently collaborates with different cultural institutes, museums and archives like Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the National Archive and the Rijksmuseum. He received several grants from the Mondrian Fund, and was awarded the title ‘photographer of the Netherlan