Jelmer Konjo graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy as an illustrator, but developed himself into a versatile artist creating paintings, sculptures and installations with a characteristic naive and colorful style.
In his work he mainly plays with composition, color, form and he loves to include interactive components to surprise and trigger his audience.
Pow Wow Rotterdam game room 2020
The original idea was to make a couple of analog arcade type of games in combination with paintings so the visitor could play around in the space. Due to the covid rules we had to downscale it a little bit and settled creating a half court where if you make the shot you can win a print or shirt.
Created in collaboration with Noel Deelen
Curated by Nanne Boere.
Create your own sculpture with Jelmer Konjo
For Object 2019 Jelmer Konjo created an interactive work where the viewer is invited to create their own sculpture with the shapes Jelmer used to design his sculpture line "specially for object"