Kou/ Kaustav Majumdar (* 1987) is an artist, scenographer and animator. His work appears regularly at different creative and entertainment events in Berlin and Freiburg. Kaustav Majumdar’s art has been subject to numerous pop-up exhibitions in Germany. He has drawn live from the Wurzel Festival, and Venice Design Week, and he has sketched recently Berlin City — while the city was highly under construction. He created The Freiburgs’s first Live Digital Art Mixing as well as hand-drawn city visuals for the Cafe Ruef. Clients include Electric Monday, Many well-known DJs around Germany, and Private art collectors.
In KOU's artistic practice, abstraction plays a crucial role. He envisions objects not merely in their physical form but as compositions of material, light, environment, and human presence. Translating these complex mental images onto paper involves a process of simplification, a challenge that KOU embraces by harnessing the power of storytelling.
Storytelling is at the core of KOU’s artistry. Whether through detailed renderings, abstract concepts, digital media, hand sketches, or videos, his work narrates profound stories beyond the limitations of words. He defies the notion of fixed boundaries in art, viewing lines and forms as perceptual phenomena that shift with perspective. This fluidity invites viewers to engage with reality more intensely, perceiving multiple dimensions within a single canvas.
For project inquiries + collaborations, please contact:
shop.ideakou@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2024
“I wish You Summer”/ Solo/ Cafe 5 Senses, Okenstrasse 4, Freiburg-Herdern
“Art Box Expo, Zürich 6.0”/ Group/ Hauptbahnhof (main train station), Zurich
“In My Garden”/ Group/ Clubkultur_ev event at Artik, Freiburg im Breisgau
“3 Frankfurt”/ Solo (Print Exhibition)/ Grace Studio-Bar, Offenbach
“Art Box Expo, Basel 3.0”/ Group/ EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg
“Berlin Before & After 2020”/ Solo/ Tante Frizzante, Berlin
“The Way I see Around”/ Solo/ Cafe Ruef, Freiburg im Breisgau
2023
“WE/ME”/ Fete Fatale, Studio Pro Arte, Freiburg
2022
“Electric Monday”/ KitKat Club, Berlin
“Open Air”/ Solo/ Clubkultur e.V. Freiburg
2021
“What is Art”/ Group/ Boomer Gallery, London
“1000 Drawing Freiburg”/ Group/ Artik, Freiburg
2020
“Anormal”/ Lucky‘s SKY, Düsseldorf
“Live Art”, Stadt Klang/ Düsseldorf
2019
“SEV - After Party”/ Sev Sessions, Berlin
“Groove OK Please”/ Soup Herb, Berlin
“Kulortronic - No Excuse”/ Suicide Circus, Berlin
“Pride vs Pride”/ Solo/ Vice Versa, Amsterdam
“A Journey of Hangover”/ Solo/ Vice Versa, Amsterdam
2018
“Self & Soul. Vol 2”/ Solo/ Kunsthandlung Hetzelein, Schwabach
“Inked. Vol 2”/ Solo/ Berlin
“Inked. Vol 1”/ Solo/ Berlin
2016
“Self & Soul. Vol 1”/ Solo Exhibition, Podiumensa SoSe/ Berlin
2015
Luminance/ Solo/ ZWO, Joliba, Berlin
1000 Drawing Munich/ Group/ Munich
1000 Drawing Berlin/ Group/ Berlin
2014
Cult Venezia/ Group/ Venice
DMY/ Group/ Berlin
Night of 1000 Drawing Berlin/ Group/ Berlin
2013
Open Design Italia/ Group/ Venice
2009
Breaking Stereotypes/ Group/ YP Foundation
at Annual National Film Festival in India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2008
Pen and Ink/ Solo/ World View Book Store, Kolkata