Joachim Koester

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Joachim Koester (b. 1962) is a Danish contemporary artist who primarily works in installation, photography, and sound art. [1] His work can be found in major metropolitan museums, including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou.

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Biography

Joachim Koester was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1962, and lives between Copenhagen and Brooklyn. [2] [1] He travels the world, using art as a tool to document lesser-known locations and draw attention to historical events. He combines elements of both reality and imagination to tell his stories. [2] Art critic Hal Foster has characterized his work as being "along the borders between documentary and fiction." [3]

Education

Joachim Koester attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1987 to 1993 where he earned his art degree. [4] He is currently a professor of Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy in Malmö, Sweden. [5] [6]

Artworks

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Joachim Koester's work can be found in prestigious collections such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and Staten's Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. [6] His piece titled My Frontier Is an Endless Wall of Points can be found at the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia. [13] Koester's work titled Tarantism is also featured at the Tate Modern Museum in Bankside, London. [14] [15]

Awards

Joachim Koester was awarded the 2013 Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography for his piece From the Secret Garden of Sleep #6 from 2008. With his exceptional skills in visual arts particularly in photography, Koester impressed the judges of the Camera Austria award by being able to seamlessly blending elements of reality and fiction. [16] In 2008 Koester was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize, but ultimately lost to Emily Jacir.

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Joachim Koester". Galería Elba Benítez. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  2. 1 2 "Androgynous cowboys to ARoS | Ny Carlsbergfondet". www.ny-carlsbergfondet.dk. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  3. Foster, Hal (2006-04-01). "BLIND SPOTS: THE ART OF JOACHIM KOESTER". Artforum. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  4. "Biography & Bibliography". Nicolai Wallner. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  5. "Malmö Art Academy". Lund University. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  6. 1 2 "Joachim Koester". Lund University. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  7. "Joachim Koester - Tarantism". Tique | publication on contemporary art. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  8. Tate. "'Tarantism', Joachim Koester, 2007". Tate. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  9. Roberts, Catsou, ed. (1998). Day for night Christiana 1996 - Joachim Koester. Köbenhavn: Galleri Nicolai Wallner. ISBN   978-87-987060-0-7.
  10. "Day For Night, Christiania, 1996 | Online Presentation". Nicolai Wallner. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  11. "Joachim Koester: From the Secret Garden of Sleep | Greene Naftali". Joachim Koester: From the Secret Garden of Sleep | Greene Naftali. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  12. Koester, Joachim (2015). Ortiz Monasterio, Rodrigo; Chateigné Tytelman, Yann (eds.). Maybe one must begin with some particular places. Ciudad de México: Guayaba Press. ISBN   978-3-943514-48-3.
  13. "Joachim Koester - My Frontier Is an Endless Wall of Points (After the Mescaline Drawings of Henri Michaux) (Mi frontera es un muro infinito de puntos) [Según los dibujos de mescalina de Henri Michaux])". www.museoreinasofia.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  14. Tate. "'Tarantism', Joachim Koester, 2007". Tate. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  15. "Joachim Koester | Tabakalera". www.tabakalera.eus. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  16. "Joachim Koester". Camera Austria. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  17. Koester, Joachim; Vibolt Knudsen, Vibeke; Bogh, Mikkel; Høgsbro Østergaard, Cecilie (2018). Joachim Koester - patterns shimmers scenes. Copenhagen: SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst. ISBN   978-87-7551-028-3.
  18. Koester, Joachim (2019). Lahn-Johannessen, Mai; Sekkingstad, Steinar (eds.). Joachim Koester - Bringing something back. Camden Arts Centre, Bergen Kunsthall. London: Koenig Books. ISBN   978-3-96098-584-6.
  19. Bergholtz, Frèdèrique; Koester, Joachim; Kestner-Gesellschaft, eds. (2012). I myself am only a receiving apparatus. Köln: König. ISBN   978-3-86335-086-4.
  20. Caron, Thomas (2014). Joachim Koester: of spirits and empty spaces [exhibition], Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne... [December 10, 2011-February 19, 2012], MIT List visual arts center, Cambridge, [May 10, 2012-July 8, 2012], Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, [August 24, 2012-30 December, 2012], SMAK, Ghent, [November 30, 2012-March 10, 2013], Centre d'art contemporain, Genève, [May 23, 2014-August 17, 2014]. Milano Villeurbanne: Mousse publishing Institut d'art contemporain. ISBN   978-88-6749-088-2.
  21. Koester, Joachim; Millar, Jeremy; Vollmann, William T. (2002). Joachim Koester: row housing ; [Beechey Island, Cornwallis Island, Devon Island and Resolute Bay ; 25 photographs]. Copenhagen: Galleri Nicolai Wallner. ISBN   978-87-987060-3-8.