Biography

Ko de Jonge was born in Middelburg, The Netherlands, in 1945. He lives and works in Vlissingen/Middelburg. From 1970 to 2006 he was teaching art in secondery education. He produces drawings, collages, objects and installations. Furthermore he is a designer and contributor of the literary periodical “Ballustrada”. He is the curator of the “wALLofsmALLart”.

Since the early seventies he has been working with Mail Art. He participated in many international projects and organized several projects himself. His most well known project is “ARTisSTARTplus”, that started in 1982 and is still going on. It’s a library of contemporary art and consists of artists’ books. All the books have the same size and title. The invited artists make the difference. There are more than 1200 of these books in the archives.

Projects

1975 Door Art in Mail Art
1979/80 Directions for use
1981 Reports from Everywhere
1982 Open everything/dokumente7, The newspaper as a MailArt-Museum
1983 Megalithic Tomb Project
1987 Grenzenlos/ No borders (with Johan van Geluwe, Sjoerd Paridaen, JanVerschoore)
1988 Symmetry ’88
1989 Wallnewspaperproject “If walls could speak”, Project Visual Poetry CODE
1998 How time flies (with Jan Verschoore and Ever Arts)
2001 Everything goes to the ocean, Horizontaal-Slibreeks
2002 Moving Details
2004 A Square
Berichte/Messages (1993-95), Serie L (2003) and RECONSTRUCTIE/a RECONSTRUCTION (2008) in cooperation with Marlies Mulders

Links

www.kipvis.com (exhibition in Oct-Nov/09)
Mail Artists Index: http://mailartists.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/ko-de-jonge/