From May 10, 2025, LAID BUG will present a solo exhibition by Kaspar Dejong.

Based in Amsterdam, Kaspar is an artist working in a variety of mediums, focusing on the urban landscape and the traces left behind by humans in public spaces. He has exhibited his work at DMW Gallery (2025, Antwerp, Belgium), Art Rotterdam (2024, The Netherlands), Christies Amsterdam (2023, The Netherlands), and other venues around Europe.

Through his urban fieldwork, Kaspar researches multilayered urban landscapes that are the result of human intervention in the environment, wear and tear on man-made structures, and spontaneous transformations.The cracks in walls and road surfaces where paint has worn off, and the colors of tiles that have become mottled with age: ....... The traces of human presence left unintentionally in familiar urban landscapes not only inspire his work, but he also incorporates them into his sculptures, paintings, and installations as important elements of his compositions

For his first solo exhibition in Japan, Kaspar will present new paintings and a site-specific installation. Kaspar's paintings are characterized by a rich palette of colors, including subtle purples, deep earth tones, and irregularly appearing accent colors, and are made with pigments he has refined himself. Using pigments ground and refined from oxidized volcanic rocks and natural materials (urban debris and unprocessed organic elements) collected during a visit to Japan last year, the works reaffirm the beauty of familiar textures from urban life.

The title of this exhibition, “3 times left,” expresses a “psychogeographic” approach to drifting through the urban landscape and perceiving objects without preconceived notions.

Please look forward to Kaspar Dejong's work, which offers a fresh perspective by highlighting the multilayered dialogue between the ever-changing urban space and the human activities left behind in it.