Jutta Koether

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Jutta Koether (* 1958 in Cologne ) is a German painter , performance artist , musician , writer, critic and theorist who works and lives in New York and Berlin .

life and work

Koether studied art education from 1977 to 1981 at the University of Cologne . She was an editor and (from 1985) co-editor of the music and pop culture magazine Spex and is a reviewer and contributor to numerous magazines, for example, from Texte zur Kunst , FlashArt and ArtScribe .

The role of Jutta Koether has often been interpreted as a feminist response to the Cologne scene in the late 1980s.

Koether's work spans a wide variety of activities including painting, performance, film, and music; She also regards her political and journalistic activities as part of her artistic practice: She describes herself as a "painter, performer, participant" and often works in joint projects with other artists, e.g. B. with the Sonic Youth musicians Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore as well as with Steven Parrino and Ei Arakawa .

Koether is also a lecturer and has lectured at the University of Fine Arts , Hamburg , the School of Visual Arts , New York, the University of the Arts , Berlin, at Bard College , New York and at the Cooper Union , New York. She lived and worked in Cologne and since the 1990s in New York.

Since 2010 she has been a professor for painting / drawing at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts .

Projects and exhibitions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Jutta Koether: f. Graz: Galerie Bleich-Rossi, 1987
  • Jutta Koether, ed. With Sabine Breitwieser: Massen. Vienna 1991
  • Jutta Koether: Kairos. Texts on art and music , Berlin / Amsterdam 1996
  • Jutta Koether: Walk-in collage. A tour through New York exhibitions. In: Texts on Art, Issue No. 46 / June 2002 "Appropriation Now!"
  • Jutta Koether: Holistic high. In: Kai Althoff, Signs and Expression, Frankfurt / M. 2002, pp. 25-35.
  • Jutta Koether: Acting out. Jutta Koether visits Bernadette Corporation. In: Texts on Art, Issue No. 49 / March 2003 "Atelier"
  • Jutta Koether: All in all / An interview with Karl Lagerfeld by Jutta Koether. In: Texts on Art, Issue No. 56 / December 2004 "Mode"
  • Jutta Koether, Eds. Susanne Cotter, Achim Hochdörfer, Tonio Kröner: Tour de Madame , exhibition catalog Museum Brandhorst / Mudam Luxembourg, publisher: Walther König (June 30, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 901014184
personal data
SURNAME Koether, Jutta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, performance artist, musician, writer, critic and theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne