Fenna Koot

By incorporating building techniques, construction methods and playing with concepts such as “building” and “inhabiting” I explore the relationship between people and their inhabited space.

The friction between the rational on one side and the subjective on the other, such as the grid versus its breakthrough, the transparent versus the opaque is characteristic of my work. In commissions I like to work site-specific. When I look at the built environment around me, I see a world there that seems to be very defined. Many structures that support efficient and individual movement. It fascinates me how mankind has pretty much reduced the proliferating earth to a large sphere covered by a grid, the world.

Picture: proces picture De Deur

Fenna Koot (Delft 1996), is graduated (2020) from St. Joost school of Art & design in Breda at the Fine Arts department. With her graduation project she won the Van Gogh AiR prize. Her work has been exhibited to various venues including Anderlecht ARTtour Brussels, Club Solo Breda and ART The Hague. In 2024 she and her work/life partner Emmie Liebrets got selected for a for a three-month residency period at Goethe Institute Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto (JP).

Currently supported by the Mondrian Start Stipend.