Shlomo Koren was born in 1932 in Cologne and died in 2013 in Amsterdam. He was an Israeli-Dutch artist whose work spanned sculpture, painting, and drawing. In his abstract, often minimalist works, he explored themes of place, architecture, displacement, and inner grounding. His practice reflects a sustained engagement with the emotional and spatial resonance of constructed forms.

Koren’s visual language developed through a disciplined studio practice that emphasized clarity, reduction, and the quiet tension between structure and openness. His works circulated in contemporary art contexts that recognized the contributions of postwar artists working across multiple media. The interplay between abstraction, spatial memory, and the ...