K.T. Kobel

K. T. Kobel (b. 1988, UK) lives and works in Amsterdam. He paints scenes that feel at once familiar and slightly wrong, half remembered, cinematic, with the narrative deliberately withheld. What interests him is not memory but the act of remembering: each time we recall something we are recalling our last recollection of it, so the image drifts a little further with every pass. Curtains ran through the earlier paintings as a reminder of what recollection hides. The recent work is built differently, four separate scenes stacked vertically inside a single wooden frame, made with pigment transfer, acrylic and encaustic, closer to a storyboard than a picture, and left to the viewer to assemble.

Closed Views, his first solo exhibition in Amsterdam, opened at Projectspace 38/40 in 2024. Since 2022 he has exhibited from Los Angeles to Milan, and in 2026 he presented his first major exhibition in Switzerland. His work has been covered by Artsy and Fakewhale.

Kobel has worked with Plan X since 2023, with the exhibitions Strokes & Stills at Plan X Milan and Visceral in 2024, and a presentation at Contemporary Art Now Ibiza in 2023.