Structure and Event, an exhibition of work by Belgian architect-artist Koen Deprez (b. 1961, Kortrijk), explores the state of architecture today while interrogating and complicating its enduring monumentality. Paying special attention to his drawings, collages, and interventions, the installation is conceived as a visual essay: a constellation of ideas that can be read from many different angles and that defy the constraints of a chronological survey.

Koen Deprez graduated in 1984, from what was then the St. Lukas School of Art and Architecture in Brussels. He subsequently collaborated with OMA (Rotterdam) and Studio Alchimia (Milan) and, enriched by these academic and professional experiences, began developing his passion for landscapes, interiors and urban spaces – a preoccupation of his since the early 1980s. Deprez explores these dislocated and imposing environments via drawings, collages, architecture, isometries and interventions, and even through an educational curriculum.

Although Deprez trained as an architect, the two most decisive moments in his career took place beyond the walls of the architecture school. Both of these have played an important role in determining his architectural practice.