Kevin van Braak, Pentagonal Icositetrahedron (2017). Foto: Marlise Steeman / Framer Framed Kevin van Braak
The work of Kevin van Braak (1975, Warnsveld, the Netherlands) is set around politically and ideologically problematic issues. In recent years, he turned his attention to the visibility and invisibility of the display of power in buildings, people, location, and artefacts and how our historical consciousness functions in relation to the history behind it. He is particularly interested in reproducing, restoring and transforming ideological images and metaphors through sculptures, installations, events and performances. It makes it possible for him to touch political and ideological sensibilities, and in his most recent projects also a personal story, to explain the histories of buildings, objects and contexts. Time tends to change events and how hard we try to keep the facts, the written and visual materials that witnesses to these events, seem to be subject to transformation. Through imitation, restoration, adaptation and transformation of these relics, he tries to give their historical development and (former) ideological features a voice through visualisation and interpretation.
van Braak has exhibited internationally among others at Framer Framed Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Sonsbeek 2016 Transaction; Cacos, Shards, at the Galeria Quadrado Azul Lisbon, Portugal; Invisible Violence, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; Territory, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Italy.
At Framer Framed he curated the exhibition Pressing Matters (2018), a group exhibition featuring 24 artists from Indonesia. Kevin van Braak was responsible for the spatial design of the exhibitions Do It Together (2022), Tanah Merdeka (2023) and the Planetary Poetics Graduation Show (2025). In 2025 Kevin van Braak participated in Lawan! an exhibition that brings attention to the legacies of post-colonial imperialist expansion in the Indonesian archipelago and West Papua, featuring presentations by Watch65, Kevin van Braak and Udeido Collective. The title – loosely translating to Fight! – is a call to action against injustice in all its forms.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Secret Arts Teachers
A group presentation in which the classroom enters the exhibition space
Exhibition: Lawan!
An exhibition that brings attention to the legacies of post-colonial imperialist expansion in the Indonesian archipelago and West Papua
Exhibition: Planetary Poetics Graduation Show
Planetary Poetics considers how to imagine alternative visions for this planet beyond extraction and extermination
Exhibition: Tanah Merdeka
An exhibition with the Indonesian art & activist collective, Taring Padi, reflecting on the concept of land as the object and site of decolonial struggles.
Project: Do It Together - DIT
DIT is a kitchen / a tent / a learning playground / a workshop...................
