Joachim Koester

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Joachim Koester (* 1962 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish conceptual artist , photographer and filmmaker who lives in Copenhagen and New York .

life and work

Joachim Koester graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1994 . His preferred media are photography, sound and video .

In 1997 Koester showed a project at documenta X with the title Day for Night Christiana 1996 . Christiana is the name of a hippie commune founded in 1971 . The first part of this work consists of a series of photographs taken with the technique of the American night . "This trick obscures the clear demarcation between a description of reality and the construction of a fictional area". Message from Andrée (2005) was shown in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale . In 2013 Joachim Koester was awarded the Camera Austria Prize .

Films (selection)

  • Pit Music (1996)
  • Message from Andrée (2005)
  • Tarantism (2007)
  • The Hashish Club (2009)
  • Of Spirits and Empty Spaces (2012)
  • The Place of Dead Roads (2013)
  • Howe (2013)
  • Department of Abandoned Futures (2015)
  • Maybe this act, this work, this thing (2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frieze Joachim Koester , accessed on December 20, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ SMK Joachim Koester Patterns, Shimmers and Scenes accessed on December 20, 2018 (English)
  3. ^ Documenta X short guide / Kurzführer Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 , p. 120
  4. ↑ Moderna Museet The 1st at Moderna: Joachim Koester ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 20, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.modernamuseet.se
  5. ↑ Camera Austria , accessed December 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Contempoprary art daily Joachim Koester at Bergen Kunsthall , accessed on December 20, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Koester, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish conceptual artist, photographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen