Joachim Koester

 

 

Joachim Koester is an artist born in 1962 in Copenhagen. In his installations and works Koester has investigated the dream life of capitalism, or drawn far-ranging analogies between the artist, the explorer, the mystic, and the charlatan, or between the body, the psyche, the city, the photograph, and the palimpsest. Koester has exhibited widely, with solo shows at Kunsthalle Mainz (2021); Museum Dr Guislain, Ghent (2021); Bergen Kunsthall (2018); Camden Art Centre (2017); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); Forum Eugénio de Almeida, Evora (2015); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (2014); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2012); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2012); SMAK, Ghent (2012); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2010); The Power Plant, Toronto (2010); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2007); Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (2000) and PS1 (project space), New York (1999) among others.

 

Selected group exhibitions include: The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2014); From the Collection, S.M.A.K, Ghent (2014); Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); Habitar el tiempo, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2014); and ARKTIS, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2013). Koester’s work has also been exhibited in numerous biennales including the Taipei Biennal (2012); Sao Paulo Biennial (2010); Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy (2008); Sharjah Biennale (2007); the Venice Biennale, Slovenian and Danish Pavilions (2006, 2005 respectively) and Documenta X, Kassel (1997). Joachim Koesters work can be found in the following museums and collections: Tate Modern, London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; Museum Pompidou, Paris; Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam; S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; The collection at the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; FNAC, Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris; Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmo; Samlung Hoffmann, Berlin; The Museum of Fine Arts, Hudson, Texas; Musee des arts contemporains MAC’s Grand-Hornu, Belgium; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Frac Le Plateau, Insitut d’art contemporain,Villeurbanne;Generali Foundation, Vienna; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna; Museum Sztuki, Lodz.