Joachim Koester
°1962, Copenhagen (DK) - lives and works in Copenhagen (DK) and New York (US)
Joachim Koester – Photographic Works 1994 – 2019, installation view at Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen in 2020
Joachim Koester – Some Boarded Up Houses (Chicago), 2013
Joachim Koester – Photographic Works 1994 – 2019, installation view at Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen in 2020
Joachim Koester – From the Secret Garden of Sleep, 2008
Joachim Koester – The Abbey of Thelema #4 (from the series Morning of the Magicians), 2005
Joachim Koester has had solo exhibitions including Camera Austria, Graz; Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; S.M.A.K., Ghent; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City. His work was also featured in numerous group exhibitions in international institutions, including Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunstverein, Hamburg; MCA, Chicago; and Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek. Koester also participated in the Sao Paulo Biennale in 2010; the Biennale of Venice in 2005; and Documenta X in 1997, Kassel.
Among others, his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. In 2013, he was the winner of the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography, Coty of Graz, Austria.
Joachim Koester is represented by the following galleries;
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Joachim Koester – THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN (2021), installation view at Kunsthalle Mainz
Joachim Koester – TARANTISM, 2007
Joachim Koester – Of spirits and empty spaces, exhibition view at Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne, 2011
Joachim Koester – MAYBE THIS ACT, THIS WORK, THIS THING, 2016, installation view at Camden Arts Centre (Photo by Mark Blower)
Joachim Koester – THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS, 2015
