Biography

The work of Kaspar Dejong is in line with the semiotic tradition exploring and studying signs and symbols as a significant part of communication. 'I tend to re-use existing imagery and objects from my daily surrounding and deconstruct these objects and images in such a way that their signals lose meaning and/or their authority and original function is being questioned.' The subjects that Dejong broaches arise from a fascination for the obvious, the everyday and small beauty. Processes in which the ravages show itself. Kaspar Dejong (Maastricht, 1995). Finished his master degree at Sandberg institute in 2021. Graduated his BA(minor Critical Studies) at Willem De Kooning academy in 2017 and exhibited his graduation project ‘Traffic Gaze’ at art collection DSM. In 2017 he was a resident in Vienna and Barcelona. Recently his work was exhibited at Art Rotterdam, Ballroom Project Antwerp and Kunsthal Ghent. He was nominated for the Sluijters prijs in 2022 and for the Buning and Brongers price 2022. His work is represented in the Dutch company art collections of DSM, Nationale Nederlanden(NN), Maastricht UMC+ and private ones. Dejong was granted the the young talent stipendium by the Mondriaan funds. Currently he works and resides in Amsterdam.