Performance Beauty of the Battle
12-01-2019
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Performance Beauty of the Battle
12-01-2019
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Performance Beauty of the Battle
12-01-2019
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Performance Beauty of the Battle
12-01-2019
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Lives and works in Zwolle, The Netherlands
Education
2011 - 2013
MA, Royal College of Art, Sculpture Department, London
2005 - 2009
BA, CABK ArtEZ, Fine Art, Zwolle
Residencies
2015
Sundaymorning@EKWC, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands
2013 - 2014
Sundaymorning@EKWC, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
2012
Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris
Grants/Prizes
2021
Mondriaan Fund, Corona Bridging Grant
2018
Grant, Cultuur en Kwaliteit, gemeente Zwolle
2018
Winner Frans de Wit Prize 2018 (Beelden in Leiden)
2016
Grant, Stichting Stokroos
2015
Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Emerging Artists
2015
Mondriaan Fund Budget for residency EKWC
2013
Mondriaan Fund Budget for residency EKWC
2012
Talent Award, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
2009
Nomination workingperiod and solo-exhibition ‘AanZet!2010’ (Art Prize for Young Talent in the Netherlands)
Exhibitions
2022
De Wilde Deerne, sculpture for the public space, Zwolle
2021
Heaving the Giants, sculptures&performance, Zwolle
2019
Beelden In Leiden, 8th edition
Sculpture Park Anningahof, Zwolle
Performance at Beauty of the Battle, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
2018
Beauty of the Battle, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Beelden in Leiden, 7th edition
Concepts of Time, Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden, Leiden
2017
Prospects&Concepts/Art Rotterdam
Solo exhibition 'The Way of the Warrior', Studio Seine, Rotterdam
XBANK, Amsterdam
KunstRAI, Amsterdam
2016
Art The Hague
Sculpture Park Anningahof, Zwolle
KunstRAI
European Triennial for Ceramics and Glas, Mons (Belgium)
Different Corners (Fairy Tales), gallery Helder
2015
Art The Hague
Rotterdam Contemporary
Gallery Espace Enny
Hybrids, gallery Helder
2014
Art The Hague
Solo exhibition NN-Group (Delta-Lloyd), Amsterdam
2013
RCA Degreeshow, London
Interim Show, RCA, London
2011
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Gallery 7Senses, Zandhoven/Antwerp
DNA Werkt, De Nieuwe Academie, The Hague
State of the Art’, Stedelijk Museum, Zwolle
2010
Solo Exhibition, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Gelderland (CBK), Arnhem
2009
AanZet!, CBK, Apeldoorn
Oostenwind, NN-Group (Delta-Lloyd), Amsterdam
Collections
2016
Isala Klinieken, Zwolle
2014
Nationale Nederlanden/Delta-Lloyd Group, Amsterdam
2013
Royal College of Art, London
2010
Saxion College, Deventer
''Sculpting to me, is like a dance, a fight, the act of making love or even a prayer. I use violent force as well as softness and precise articulation, to intuitively push and pull the clay material into being.''
Damian Kapojos has several hero's gathered throughout different centuries and disciplines; The sculptors August Rodin, Gianlorenzo Bernini and Matthew Monahan, the painter Willem the Kooning, martial artist Bruce Lee and dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. The emotional expression, sensuality and physicality in the work of these artists inspire Kapojos in the proces of creating his ceramic sculptures. His sculptures are a 'showdown' of personal and cultural conflicts, the combination of his western and Indonesian roots, contrasts like yin and yang, softness and violence, male and female, hope and despair, good and evil. All these are violently released onto the clay.
Kapojos is a sculptor, martial artist and dancer and in his new projects he wants to explore how the (dancers/martial artists) body can be engaged to bring his visual work closer to the audience. Through this combination Kapojos wants to sublimize and dramatize the meaningful contrasts between the durable and immovable sculptures and the lifely, but temporary act of dance and fight. Not only molding his clay sculptures, but now the human body as well, using his background in the Indonesian martial art Pukulan and classical ballet, to reflect on personal and social conflicts and contrasts.
