JOACHIM KOESTER
Born 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York, USA
Education
| 1987-1993 | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Solo exhibitions
| 2021 | The way out is the way in, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany The Invisible Index, Jan Mot, Bruxelles, Belgium Altered States, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium |
| 2020 | Photographic works (1994 – 2019), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2018 | Bringing Something Back, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway Joachim Koester – Patterns, Shimmers, Scenes, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Things That Shine And Things That Are Dark, Beirut Art Center (BAC), Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2017 | In the Face of Overwhelming Forces, Camden Art Centre, London, UK |
| Maybe this act, this work, this thing, STUK, Leuven, Belgium | |
| Joachim Koester, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2016 | The Other Side of the Sky, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK |
| 2015 | HACER CUERPO CON LA MÁQUINA: JOACHIM KOESTER, Blueprojects Foundation, Barcelona, Spain |
| Department of Abandoned Futures, Forum Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, Portugal | |
| Every muscular contraction contains the history and meaning of its origin, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Body Electric, Greene Naftali, New York City, USA | |
| 2014 | The Ghost Shop, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria |
| The Place of Dead Roads, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| The Place of Dead Roads, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2013 | Howe, Yerba Buena Center for Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| Joachim Koester: Tarantism, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia | |
| Reptile Brain or Reptile Body, It’s Your Animal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | |
| Reptile brain, or Reptile Body, It’s Your Animal, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Who Wants Flowers When You’re Dead, Poor Farm, Manawa, USA | |
| 2012 | Some Boarded up Houses, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| If One Thing Moves, Everything Moves, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown…, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | |
| Maybe One Must Begin with Some Particular Places, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium | |
| I Myself am only a Receiving Apparatus, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium | |
| 2011 | Of Spirits and Empty Spaces, Institut D’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France |
| I myself am only a receiving apparatus, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium | |
| If One Thing Moves Everything Moves, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain | |
| Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes, Galerie Jan Mot, Mexico | |
| 2010 | To Navigate, in a Genuine Way, in the Unknown Necessitates an Attitude of Daring, But Not One of Recklessness (Movements Generated from the Magical Passes of Carlos Castaneda), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| From the Secret Garden of Sleep, Gallery Greene Naftali, New York, USA | |
| Del jardín secreto del sueno, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| I Myself am Only a Receiving Apparatus, Joachim Koester, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany | |
| Hymn to Pan, Joachim Koester and Karl Holmqvis, The Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Hypnagogia, Joachim Koester, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada | |
| The Hashish Club, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2009 | Tarantism, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland |
| Poison Protocols and Other Histories, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| 2008 | Tarantism & Pit Music, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Ghost Tracks, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2007 | Min yttre gräns är en oändlig mur av punkter, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| The Magic Mirror of John Dee and Other works , Preus Museum, Horten, Norway | |
| Morning of the Magicians, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Numerous Incidents of Indiffinite Outcome, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| Twelve (Former) Real eEstate Opportunities, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2006 | Morning of the Magicians and other works, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| The Magic Mirror of John Dee, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | |
| Messages from the Unseen, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden | |
| Centre d’art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2005 | Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium |
| The Kitchen, New York, USA | |
| Venice Biennale (The Danish Pavilion with Gitte Villesen, Peter Land, Ann Lislegaard & Eva Koch), Venice, Italy | |
| Gallery Greene Naftali, New York, USA | |
| 2004 | De Verbeelding, Museum Zeewolde, The Netherlands |
| The New Land(s) and the Tale of Captain Mission, SKOR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2002 | Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany | |
| Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2001 | Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Capacete Projects, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France | |
| 2000 | Row housing, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Lawring Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA | |
| Greene/Naftali Gallery, New York, USA | |
| ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA | |
| Mot& Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK | |
| 1999 | Resolute Bay, curated by Nicolai Wallner, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway |
| PS 1 (project space), Centre of Contemporary Art, New York, USA | |
| Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany | |
| Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1998 | INOVA, Milwaukee, U.S.A. Mot & Van den Boogaard, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 1997 | Greene/Naftali Gallery, New York, USA |
| Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany | |
| 1996 | Pit Music, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1994 | The Agency, London, UK |
| Ynglingagatan, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Traneudstilling, Gentofte Kunstbibliotek, Gentofte, Denmark |
Group exhibitions (selected)
| 2025 | Isa Mona Lisa, Gallery of the Present, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany Animal!?, Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc, Landerneau, France 1st Klaipėda Biennial: Sunset Every Two Years, Klaipėda, Lithuainia 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit, Seoul, Korea Documents, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark All good things are wild and free…, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen, Germany ONLY GOOD VIBES? Cannabis, intoxication and reality, Foundation Welt der Versuchungen, Erfurt, Germany |
| 2024 | ARoS Collection: World in Focus, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark The Verbund Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria 11th Quebec City Biennale: The Strength of Sleep–The Cohabitations of All the Living, Canadá |
| 2023 | Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n Roll + a new video work by Peter Land, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Oxymoron, Henrique Pavão + Joachim Koester, Kindred Spirit Projects, Lisbon, Portugal Arch of Hysteria. Between Madness and Ecstasy, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria The Barricaded Picture, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Denmark Happily Ever After, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden Gothic Returns: Fuseli to Fomison, Auckland Art Gallery, Australia The Night Watch, Lyl radio, Société d’Electricité, Brussels |
| 2022 | Nu Falmer Skoven, Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Copenhagen Zin Ex. Body and Architecture, TABAKALERA, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Emma Kunz Cosmos, A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art,TABAKALERA, International Centre for Contemporary Culture, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Breathing, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany La Beauté du Diable, Frac Franche-Comté, Besanzón, France |
| 2021 | I Virkeligheden – Fotografisk Center 25 år, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Emma Kunz Cosmos – A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland WITCHES, TAXISPALAIS, Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2020 | The Botanical Mind. Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK La evolución del mito. Vampiros, CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain Vampires. From Dracula to Buffy, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France The Place of Dead Roads, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark The 10th edition of the Festival of Ephemeral Arts in Sokołowsko |
| 2019 | Plant Revolution!, CIAJG Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimãraes, Guimãraes, Portugal Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Ecstasy, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland Touché! (gestures, movement, action), Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon The Collection (1) Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium De l’immersion à l’osmose Chaosmose #2, FRAC île-de-France, Le Château Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France |
| 2018 | Group Therapy, Frye Museum, Seattle, USA Written In Light, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden Ecstasy, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Altered States. Substances in Contemporary Art, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2017 | 70 Meisterwerke der Sammlung Verbund, Verbund, Vienna, Austria Psychosculptural Aesthetics, Rianne Groen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Dizziness, Navigating the Unknown, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Meeting Points 8: Both Sides of the Curtain, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon The Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Wild: Fabricating a Frontier, Calgary Contemporary, Calgary, Canada Extratextual, Calgary Contemporary, Calgary, Canada Dancers, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Dancers, Pool, Seoul, South Korea Kolonihistorier – magt og afmagt, gl Holtegaard, Denmark Sunset Décor, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA Folklore. Exhibition from the Collection, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria Chalk Circles. REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA Flower Pictures, FRAC, Jardin des Plantes de Rouen, France Whither the Winds, The Malmö Art Academy, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden |
| 2016 | The Morality Reflex, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania Maniera 07, Maniera, Brussels, Belgium open spaces | secret places. Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium Uchronies, BPS22, Charleroi, France Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Sometimes when you blink you may see trees, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium Ed Ruscha – Books & co., Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA |
| 2015 | 2015 New Arrivals: Joachim Koester, Blatimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA Walking Sculpture 1967–2015, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA La La La Human Steps, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Welcome to America – L’Imagerie, Lannion, France Tongue Stones, Pioneer Works – Center for Art and Innovation, New York City, USA Fire And Forget, Kunst-Werke Berlin – KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin, Germany Manon de Boer, Joachim Koester, Ian Wilson, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium Festival l’Ete photographique de Lectoure – Le Point De Fuite De L’historie, Centre de photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure, France The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York City, USA To See – To Reveal. Uses and Representations of the Unexplained, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain Pasajeros: Jerzy Grotowski, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Psychic Lighthouse, The Model, Sligo, Ireland |
| 2014 | From the Collection, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium Our Inner Nature, Marabouparken, Malmo, Sweden Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Artefact Festival, STUK Kunstmuseum, Leuven, Belgium The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Invisible Hand. Curating as Festure, 2nd CAFAM Biennale, Beijing, China L’image suivante…, Musee des Arts Contemporains de la Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, Hornu, Belgium Habitar el tiempo, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Kill All Monsters, Ausstellungsraum, Klingental, Basel, Switzerland Phantoms in the Dirt, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA Nouveau Festival 5th edition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Rock the Casbah, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium The Body As the Archive, Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault Combault, France Collection under Review, Institute d’art contemporain, Lyon, France Framed Moments, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia Music palace. The power of music seen by visual artists, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium Let The Body Be Electric, Let There Be Whistleblowers, Dan Gunn, Berlin, Germany Collection á l’etude á Villeurbanne, IAC – Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France Outside – Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2013 | Copenhagen 93, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology, MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA ARKTIS, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Foreign & Familiar Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria For no apparent reason, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Against Method – The Collection Seen by Gertrud Sandqvist, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria Cold Sun / Soleil Froid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Channelled, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden It Is Only a State of Mind, NGBK, Berlin, Germany A World of Wild Doubt, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Ed Ruscha, Books and Co. Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA Haim Steinbach, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark Snit I tiden, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark Artefact Festival, STUK Kunstcentrum, Leuven, Belgium Victor, A, Judge…, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark The Nordic Museum, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden Open Spaces/Secret Places, Werke aus der Sammlung Verbund, Museum der Moderne, Monschberg, Salzburg, Austria Paint it Black, Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France Ed Ruscha, books & Co, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany Alien and Familiar, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2012 | Found Footage: Cinema Exposed, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ritual Without Myth, Royal College of Art, London, UK Corral around your idea, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium Bon Hiver: A journey through a Winter Landscape, Towner, Eastbourne, UK Flying Carpets, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France Sound + Vision: Crossroads, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada Sehnsucht, Kasteel van Gaasbeck, Gaasbeck, Belgium A Blind Spot, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Skabt af Tiden, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark The Human Board, Centre Photographie Ile-de-France, Pomtault-Combault, France Steel Life, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, USA Open Spaces/Secret Places, Werke aus der Sammlung Verbund, Museum der Moderne, Monschberg, Salzburg, Austria Les Derives de l’imaginaire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Fremde Uberall, Zeitgennossische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection, Judisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria Taipei Biennal 2012, Taipei, Taiwan Whistable, Biennale, Whistable, UK |
| 2011 | Eins Plus Eins, M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, Germany Animism, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria Psych-Out, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark Second Lives:Jeux masqués et autres je, Casino Luxemburg, Luxemburg Secret Societies, Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Fragmentations, Trajectoires contre-nature, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France A form is simply something which allows something else to be transported from one site to another, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, USA One Magic Hour, Yokahama Triennial, Yokahama, Japan Contour, 5th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium Tomorrow is the Question, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium Moment: Ynglingagaten 1, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Transformed Land, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenklan, Paris, France Erschaute Bauten – Architektur im Spiegel Zietgenossicher Kunstfotografi Museum for angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria |
| 2010 | Dance with Camera, SMoCA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA 2 1/2 Dimensional, deSingel Internationale Kunstcampus, Antwerp, Belgium Climax Redux, BAC, Batiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Dance with the Camera, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA It’s a set-up, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland There is Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In, The 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil Forum 65, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburg, Pittsburg, USA The Storyteller, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada The Storyteller, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, USA The Storyteller, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Habiter Poétiquement, Musée d’art moderne Lille Metropole, Lille, France You can’t get there from here but you can get here from there, Apexart, New York, USA Blind Spot, Documentary Forum 1, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Make the Most of Now, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria Animism, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Between Times, Instants, Intervals, Durations, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain Away and Boil your Head, Della Biennale de Athene, Istanbul, Turkey Marakech, Risso Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy The Unknown Group, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France Playground Festival, STUK, Kunscentrum, Leuven, Belgium At Home is where the Heart is, Gallerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany Nuit Blache, Musee d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France All we ever wanted was everything, EFA Project Space – The Elisabeth Foundation for the Art, New York, USA Dying in Spite of the Miraculous, Gertrude Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia La Disparition, New Galerie, Paris, France VanBijDeBuren-België, Lisse, The Netherlands Animism, Exstra City, Kunsthal Antwerp, Belgium From Dusk till Dawn, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 2009 | Dépaysage, Joachim Koester, Jeppe Hein, Ulrik Weck, Le Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen, France While we are waiting (for the new space), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark On Second Reading, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain Altermodern: Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK Size Matters, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Bright Morning Star, Galerie Zé Bois, Lisboa, Portugal The Return of Religion and Other Myths, BAK, Utrecht, The Netherlands Great Expectations – Contemporary Photography Looks at Today’s Bitter Days, Le Casino, Luxembourg Heaven, The 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece Mise á l’échelle, MAC’s, Hornu, Belgium If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Episode 4, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Episode 3, Projects Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Episode 2, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain Then the work takes place, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Aspect Ratio, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Not Created by a Human Hand, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Dance with the Camera, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelpihia, USA Morality, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Esthétique des ploles. Le testament des glaces, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France The Storyteller, Salina Art Center, Salina, USA |
| 2008 | 15 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Episode 1, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam,The Netherlands Transes, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France Non Knowledge, Projects Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Muscarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen führt zu Neuen Ideen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany Wild Signals, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Danskjävlar- en svensk kaerlighedserklaering, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark In the Poem About Love You Dont Write The Word Love, Overgaden, Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark Estratos, Murcia, Spain Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway Landscapecity, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK Le soigneur de gravité, MAC’s, Hornu, Belgium Images in the Night, Grand Palais, Paris, France Questioning History, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Hypnotic Show, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA Photo Espana, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain Manifesta 7, Trento, Italy The Greenroom. Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, Bard College, New York, USA Teleport Färgfabriken, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden Calcutta Art Research, European Kunsthalle International, Cologne, Germany The Great Transformation – Kunst und taktische Magie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany The Great Transformation – Kunst und taktische Magie, MARCO, Vigo, Spain U-turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Engergies and Shadows, 210 Front Street, New York, USA The Perception of Ideas leads to New Ideas (#21), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany Overdragelse, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark The Map is not the Territory, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark |
| 2007 | Der Droste Effekt, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia Mask, (with Matthew Buckingham), James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA Blind Date, Magazzino d’Art Moderna, Rome, Italy The Importance of Not Being Seen, Berlin, Germany 52nd Venice Biennale, Slovenian Pavillion, Venice, Italy Tokyo Redux, Chateau de tokyo, Centre International d’art et du Paysage de l’île de Vassivére, Beaumont-du-Lac, France Black is Black, S.M.A:K.- Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium Private/Public, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Elsewhere, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, USA Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1st Thessaoniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Expeditions, La Galerie- centre d’art contemporain, Noisy le Sec, France Mot tiden/Against time, Bonnierskonsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Forschen und Erfinden, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland les tremps modernes, Domaine de Kerguéhennec- Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France A Secret Service- Art, Compulsion, Concealment, de La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, UK V-effekten, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2006 | Dreamlands Burn, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary Fiction, La Box Bourges, Bourges, France A Secret Service, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition, Newcastle, Bexhill on Sea, Manchester, UK 5 Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA Keeping Secrets, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK Momentum, Moss, Norway Frieze Film and Video Programme, Artist Cinema at Frieze Art Fair, London, UK Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea Les Rencontres d’ Arles, Arles, France Strange Powers, Peter Elley & Laura Hoptman, New York, USA Prophets of Deceit, The Wattis Institute, San Fransisco, USA Invisible Worlds, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany Hysteria Siberiana, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal Planting the Tele, Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland The Known and the Unknown, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark First the Artists Defines Meaning, Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Mission: Reality, Museet for samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 2005 | Some Trees, Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany Venice Biennale (The Danish Pavilion), Venice, Italy Reality, Stalke Galleri/Galleri Kirke Sonnerup, Kirke Saaby, Denmark Baby Shower, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Some Trees, Staatlicher Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany The Need To Document, Kunstlerhaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland Black Market Worlds, 9th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania Today is just a copy of yesterday, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium Skyggen, Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Soro, Denmark Message from Andrée, Andrée Museet, Granna, Sweden 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Malmö Konsthal, Malmö, Sweden Woods, Kunsthaus Muerz, Muerzzuschlag, Austria Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California, USA |
| 2004 | In den Wäldern, Jahresmuseum 2005, Kunsthaus Muerz, Muerzzuschlag, Germany Home Extension, University Art Museum, Albany, New York, USA Posters, videoes and other stuff, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain Tusindfryd, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, CAC, Villnius, Lithuania Describtions, Iaspis Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Teritories, Malmö Konsthal, Malmö, Sweden The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania, USA The Past Recaptured, CCS Museum, Bard College, USA Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 2003 | Territories, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany and Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Territories, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Sound Systems, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria To Find a Home, SeARCH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cloudless, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA The Portable Artist, Instituto Mexico, Paris, France Prophetic Corners, Contemporary Art Biennial, Iasi, Romania Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Kiel, Germany Le beau corps de la memoire, Musee des arts contemporains, Hornu, Belgium Todos Somos pecadores, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Mexico De bortbjudna, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden The Ten Year Anniversary Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Fra objektiv til objekt, Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2002 | New Acquisitions, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK New Space, Opening Show. Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium Architectural Uncanny Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Pictures, Gallery Greene/Naftali, New York, USA Eight Nordic Stories, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Out of Place, Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny curated by Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Todos somos pecadores, The Museo Tamayo. Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Confiture demain, confiture hier mais jamais, confiture aujourd’hui, Center of Art, Sete, France |
| 2001 | Group Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Greenland as Image, The National Photomuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark The Waste Land, Osterreichiscue Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Du er helt ny- du er retro, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark New Acquisitions, Malmo Konst Museum, Malmo, Sweden Present compose, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada |
| 2000 | Greater New York, PS1, New York, USA Trailer, Greene/Naftali Gallery, New York, USA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA Dirty Realism, Robert Pearre Fine Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA Another Place, Tramway Visual Arts, Glasgow, Scotland Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden North, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria |
| 1999 | Edstrandska Stiftelsens Konstnärsstipendiater 1999, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden Le Grând Praemiere Opéning Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Public Private, Monte Video/TBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cinéma-Cinéma, Van AbbeMuseum Eindhoven, The Netherlands Blondes on bikes, Newsantandrea, Savona, Italy Nordiske Klassikere, Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway H:MIN:SEC, Kunstraum Insbruck, Insbruck, Austria Close-Ups: Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1998 | Young Danish Artists, Sint-Lukasgalerij, Bruxelles, Belgium Nordic Normads, White Columns, New York, USA Lost Paradise, Joachim Koester, Catherine Opie, Ellen Cantor, Galerie Presenca, Porto, Portugal In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Somethings Rotten, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany H:MIN:SEC, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsamlung, Vaduz, Liechtenstein Narrative Urge, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden Exterminating Angel, curated by Joshua Dector, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France Nuit Blanche, Museée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France This side of the Ocean, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Contemporary Art from Denmark and Sweden, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Twilight, Contemporary Art Center of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania Nothing but Space, DASA, Dortmund, Germany |
| 1997 | Heaven, PS1 Museum, New York, USA World Wide Videofestival, Stedelijk Museum and other locations in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa Assorted Confabulations: Fiction and Interference, Consonni cent pratiques artistiques contemporaines, Bilbao, Spain Louisiana Exhibition, Humlebaek, Denmark Documenta X, Kassel, Germany One Minut Senario, Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France Double Bind, Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden Narrative Urge, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA Mapping and Instructions, Bricks and Kicks, Wien, Austria Alikeness, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melburne, Australia Human Conditions, Kunsthallen, Helsinki, Finland In Synch, Crossing boundaries between film and photography, Spot Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1996 | Brekt Bein, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway Disneyland After Dark, Kunstamt Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Escape Attempts, curated by Globe, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1995 | Song Lines, Kwangju Bienale, South Korea D.A.D, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden Galleri Struts, Oslo, Norway Three New Multiples, Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen, Denmark RAM, Portalen, Greve, Denmark I Confess, Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1994 | Glassbox, Malmö Konstmuseum (KM2), Malmö, Sweden Konsten och Virkeligheten, Riksudstallningar, Stockholm, Sweden Miniatures, The Agency, London, UK Proms 2, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark Stain in Reality, with S. Douglas & D. Gordon, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1993 | Opening show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark 17:00 cet, Stalke out of Space, Copenhagen, Denmark Blackbox, Globe, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1992 | Baghuset, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark 90’ernes fotografiske billede, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Articles/reviews (selected)
| 2017 | “Joachim Koester: In the Face of Overwhelming Forces”, Mette Kjærgaard Præst, Artworks London, 2017 |
| “Joachim Koester – at Camden Arts Centre, London”, artlead, March 13, 2017 | |
| 2016 | “Joachim Koester: The Other Side Of The Sky at Turner Contemporary”, by Kathy Bailes, Isle of Thanet Gazette, Febraury 5, 2016 |
| “Tripping The Light Fantastic: Joachim Koester At Turner Contemporary”, Robert Barry, The Quietus, February 6, 2016 | |
| “Joachim Koester – Blueproject Foundation”, Max Andrews, frieze.com, January 29, 2016 | |
| 2015 | “Måske er vi fanget i en speciel afdeling af helvede…”, Jacob Stubbe Oestergaard, Kopenhagen Magazine, May 16 |
| “Joachim Koester: ‘Body Electric’”, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, January | |
| ”Joachim Koester ‘Body Electric’ at Greene Naftali, New York”, Mousse Magazine, February | |
| ”Danish Photographer Joachim Koester’s Unsettling Eye”, Artsy Editorial, artsy.com, February | |
| ”Koesteriske Forskydninger”, Anette Lindbøg Karlsen, Magasinet Kunst #2 | |
| 2014 | “Joachim Koester at Camera Austria”, Contemporary Art Daily, June |
| “Camera Austria”, Jens Asthoff, Frieze Magazine #15, June – August | |
| ”Joachim Koester ‘The Place of Dead Roads’ at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève”, Mousse Magazine, July | |
| ”Melbourne Festival review: Dancers imitate birds in Framed Movements exhibition”, Robert Nelson, MutualArt.com, October | |
| 2013 | “Joachim Koester receives the Danish art critics prize 2013”, Maria Bordorff, Kopenhagen Art Magazine, June |
| ”Joachim Koester awarded the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography”, Kopenhagen Art Magazine, August | |
| “Joachim Koester will receive Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2013”, e-flux.com | |
| ”Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents Danish artist Joachim Koester’s HOWE”, artdaily.org, December | |
| ”Livsvarig ydelse til Joachim Koester”, Ole Bak Jakobsen, kunsten.nu, October | |
| ”Joachim Koester modtager Kunstkritikerprisen 2013”, Ole Bak Jakobsen, kunsten.nu, June | |
| “Archaeology of the Mind”, Dieter Roelstraete, Palais Magazine for Palais de Tokyo, no. 17, February 25, Paris | |
| “The Magic Chain”, Yann Chateigue Tytelman, Palais Magazine for Palais de Tokyo, no. 17, February 25, Paris | |
| “Palais de Tokyo under a Cold Sun”, AMA Art Media Agency, February 7, Paris | |
| 2012 | “Joachim Koester – Institut d’art contemporain”, Raphael Brunel, Frieze, Issue 147, May, London |
| “Joachim Koester – Institut d’art contemporain”, Artforum, April Issue, New York, p. 224 | |
| “Hetero Chronie”, L’officiel Art, Paris, pp. 98-107 | |
| ”Critical Nostalgia in the Art of Joachim Koester”, Paolo Magagnoli, Oxford Art Journal vol. 34 issue #1, pp. 97 – 121 | |
| ”Exhibitionist: The week’s art shows in pictures”, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark, The Guardian, September | |
| ”Joachim Koester’s largest project to date in Denmark opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg”, artdaily.org, August | |
| ”Joachim Koester”, Lars Bang Larsen, Artforum, May Issue | |
| ”Ugens Kunstner – Joachim Koester”, kunsten.nu, September | |
| 2011 | ”Joachim Koester ‘Of Spirits and Empty Spaces’ at the Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhone – Alpes”, Mousse Magazine, December |
| 2010 | “Where Everything Floats”, Lars Bang Larsen, Kaleidoscope, Issue 07, Summer, Milan |
| “Dance with the Camera”, Katie Kitamura, Frieze, July/Aug Issue, London | |
| “Questionnaire”, Frieze, Nov/Dec Issue, London | |
| “Haunting Images: O Joachim Koester’s Photographic Works”, Maxime Coulombe, Ciel Variable, No.83, Autumn 2009/Winter 2010 Issue, Montreal | |
| “Best in Show: Joachim Koester: From the Secret Garden of Sleep”, Robert Shuster, The Village Voice, April 28 – May 4, New York | |
| “Joachim Koester, From the Secret Garden of Sleep”, Michael Wilson, Time Out New York, April 29 –May 5, New York | |
| ”New York – Joachim Koester at Greene Naftali”, Mousse Magazine, July | |
| 2009 | “Joachim Koester”, Art Review, September Issue, New York, p.22-23 |
| “If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution”, Lars Bang Larsen, Magazine, Edition III, Eindhoven, pp. 8-20 | |
| “Great Transformations: On the Spiritual in Art, Again”, Dieter Roelstraete, Afterall, no. 20, Spring Issue, London | |
| “Altermodern: Tate Triennial”, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, February 3, London | |
| “2nd Turin Biennale,” Nicolas Cullinan, Artforum, April Issue, New York, p.178-179 | |
| “2nd Athens Biennale”, Adam Szymczyk, MAP, no. 19, Autumn Issue, Glasgow | |
| “Joachim Koester”, Kate Forde, Frieze, November Issue, London | |
| “Tate Triennial: Altermodern”, Colin Perry, Art Monthly, March issue, London | |
| “Joachim Koester”, Paul Usherwood, Art Monthly, October issue, London | |
| “Dance with the Camera”, Edward Epstein, Art Papers, Nov/Dec Issue, Atlanta | |
| 2008 | “The Surface No Longer Holds: Affect, Powerlessness and obscene Fluctuations of Meaning in New Occult Art”, Lars Bang Larsen, Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture, Issue 02, Auckland |
| “Estratos”, Max Andrews, Frieze, no. 116, June/July Issue, London | |
| “Four Sorts of Lightness”, Niels Henriksen, SUM, no. 3, Copenhagen | |
| ”Koester præmieres med 40.000”, BBA, kunsten.nu, October | |
| 2007 | “The Other Side”, Lars Bang Larsen, Frieze, no. 106, April Issue, London |
| A Prior Magazine, no. 14: Special Issue on Sven Augustijnen, Deimantas Narkevicius, and Joachim Koester, Dieter Roelstraete, A Prior Magazine, Ghent | |
| “Elsewhere, Critics pick”, Gregg Perkins, Artforum, October Issue, New York | |
| “Re-enchanment Romantique”, Sebastian Pluot, L’Art Meme, Issue no. 2, Brussels, pp. 4-8 | |
| “Epiphanic uncertaintiers: Mystic Truths in Auckland”, John Hurrell, Art Monthly, no. 205, November Issue, London |
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| 2006 | “Blind Spots”, Hal Foster, Artforum, April Issue, New York, pp. 212-217 |
| “IX Balitic Triennial of International Art”, Liutauras Psibilskis, Artforum, February Issue, New York | |
| “Review”, Henrikke Nielsen, Flash Art, March/April Issue, Milan | |
| “Joachim Koester un mirage au Palais de Tokyo”, Frédéric Maufras, Standard, Dec/Feb Issue, Paris | |
| “Morning of the Magicians”, Joachim Koester, Palais Magazine for Palais de Tokyo, no. 01, Autumn/Winter Issue, Paris | |
| “Review”, Staffan Boije af Grennas, Frieze, no. 99, May Issue, London | |
| “Go East, from Kosovo to Kaliningrad”, Aron Moulton, Flash Art, Nov/Dec Issue, Milan | |
| “Histories – Joachim Koester”, Anne-Marie Poels, <H> ART, February Issue, Antwerp | |
| 2005 | “New York Tales”, Andrea Bellini, Flash Art, vol. 38, no. 243, Summer Issue, Milan, pp. 114-116 |
| “Place” in “Room Four, Myth/History”, Tacita Dean and Jeremy Millar, Art Works: Place, Thames & Hudson, New York, pp. 90-91 | |
| “Surface Tensions, Nature”, Colin Martin, Nature: The International Weekly Journal of Science, August 4, London | |
| “Review”, Michael Wilson, Artforum, September Issue, New York | |
| “Photography’s Expanded Field”, George Baker, October 114, Fall Issue, no. 114, pp. 120-140 | |
| “IX Baltic Triennal of International Art”, Walter Seidl, Camera Austria, no. 91, Graz | |
| The Artist’s Artists”, Martin Creed et al, Artforum, December Issue, New York | |
| “Paper Trail”, Emily King, Frieze, no. 93, September Issue, London | |
| “In Between Days”, Andrea K. Scott, TimeOut New York, May 12, New York, pp. 73-74 | |
| “Sandra of the Tuliphouse”, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, June 10, New York | |
| 2004 | “Rear View Mirror”, Mark Wilsher, Art Monthly, November Issue, London |
| “Dobbelt eksistens”, Michel Henri, Magasinet Kunst, Jan/Feb Issue, Copenhagen, pp. 29-31 | |
| 2003 | “Focus Photography Part Two”, Flash Art, no. 233, Nov/Dec Issue, Milan, p. 87 |
| “Sound Systems”, Hildegrund Amanshauser, Salzburger Kunstverein, Magazine Issue no. 8, Salzburg | |
| “Joachim Koester’s Ice Narratology”, Lars Bang Larsen, Dits 2 le Recit, Grand Hornu, Hornu, pp. 72-80 | |
| “Towards a Post Cinematic Space-Time”, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Black Box Illuminated, Stockholm | |
| 2002 | “Points of Suspension” by Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester, October #100, pp. 55-63 |
| “The Waste Land”, Susanne Neuburger, Camera Austria, no. 77, Graz | |
| “The Waste Land”, Rainer Metzger, Kunstforum International, no. 158, Jan/March Issue, Cologne | |
| 2001 | “Au Mileu De Nulle Part; Joachim Koester se penche sur des extraterrestres”, Technikart, April Issue, Paris |
| “Review”, Cedric Aurelle, Paris Photo, April/May Issue, Paris | |
| “Joachim Koester, Jean-Marie Straub et Daniele Huillet”, Denis Gaudel, Art Contemporain, May Issue, Paris | |
| “Des images en quete de recits”, Olivier Michelon, Le Journal Des Arts, no. 123, March 16-29, Paris | |
| “Les Aventures Du Capitaine Koester”, Emanuelle Leqeux, Le Monde, March Issue, Paris | |
| “Review”, Dominique Baque, Art Press, May Issue, Paris | |
| 2000 | “Greater New York”, Nina Servizzi, momaps1.org, March Issue, New York |
| “Joachim Koester: Greenwich Meridian”, Lars Bang Larsen, Art/Text, Feb/April Issue, Los Angeles, pp. 72-75 | |
| “Joachim Koester: Northwood and Other Places,” Wendy Weil Atwell, Artlies, Summer Issue, Houston, p.79 | |
| “Review”, Laurence Hegarty, Art Papers, Sept/Oct Issue, Atlanta, pp. 45-46 | |
| Greater New York”, Christopher Philips, Berliner Tageszeitung, March 15, Berlin | |
| “From Here to Betweenity”, Roy Exley, Parachute: Para-Para, Oct/Dec Issue, Montreal | |
| “Mix of lens and light creates what it’s not”, Dan R. Goddard, San Antonio Express-News, July 9, San Antonio | |
| “Review”, Pernille Grane, Art Press, no. 258, June Issue, Atlanta | |
| “Review” Saul Anton, TimeOut, New York, no. 244, May 25 – June 1, New York | |
| “Beyond Recognition: Joachim Koester’s Arctic Explorations”, Kristine Kern, KATALOG, Odense | |
| 1999 | “Cinema Cinema in Van Abbemuseum”, Paul de Mol, Brabant Cultureel, Jan/Feb Issue, vol. 48, Eindhoven, pp. 31-33 |
| “Blue Haze: Images from a recent dream”, Catsou Roberts, Camera Austria, no. 66, Graz | |
| “Denmark: Double Agents”, Malene Vest Hansen, Art Journal, Summer Issue, New York | |
| “Cinema, Cinema”, Michael Gibbs, Art Monthly, April Issue, London, pp. 24-26 | |
| “The Cinematic Experience in het Van Abbemuseum”, Huibert Spoorenberg, Cursor, February 18, vol. 41, no. 22 | |
| Review”, Paco Barragan, El Periodico Del Arte, April Issue, Madrid, p.18 | |
| 1998 | “Fatale Kringloop, Metropolis M”, Paul Groot, World Wide Video Festival, no. 6, Dec/Jan Issue, Amsterdam, pp. 48-49 |
| “New York; a season of artists in Galleries”, Maia Damianovic, Tema Celeste, September Issue, Milan, p. 53 | |
| “Nothing but space”, Flash Art, May/June Issue, Milan, p. 46 | |
| “How and why did we get from H. C. Andersen to this?”, Yvette Brackman, New Art Examiner, July/Aug Issue, Chicago, pp. 36-41 | |
| “Aperto Copenhagen”, Franklin Sirmans, Flash Art, Summer Issue, Milan, pp. 105-107 | |
| “Twilight”, Liutauras Psibilskis, Siksi, Spring Issue, Helsinki, pp.85-86 | |
| “A Project for Atlantica with Matthew Buckingham”, Atlantica International, Number 19, Keflavik | |
| “Review”, Milou Allerholm, Dagens Nyheter, March 7, Stockholm | |
| “The Louisiana Exhibition 1997”, Alexandra Melo, Artforum, March Issue, New York, pp. 111-112 | |
| “Joachim Koester, entre documentation et dramatisation”, Catsou Roberts, Artpress, no. 232, February Issue, Paris, pp. 44-48 | |
| “Review”, Karsten R.S. Ifversen, Blender, no. 3, November Issue, pp. 124-128 | |
| 1997 | “Little d big X”, Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, September Issue, New York, pp. 108-112 |
| “Scania’s Art Scene”, Franklin Sirmans, Flash Art, Nov/Dec Issue, Milan, p. 52 | |
| “Joachim Koester at Greene Naftali”, Joshua Dector, Artforum, December Issue, New York, pp. 120-121 | |
| “Double Vision”, Simon Sheikh, World Art, December Issue, pp. 32-36 | |
| “Documenta X”, Barry Schwabsky, World Art, December Issue, pp. 68-70 | |
| “Review”, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, October 10, New York | |
| “Review”, Sarah Schmerier, TimeOut New York, September 15, New York, p. 43 | |
| “Summer of Group Show Discontent”, Maia Damianovic, Review Magazine, September 15, pp. 29-34 | |
| “Narrative, time and space…”, Catsou Roberts, Siksi, Summer Issue, Helsinki, pp. 58-61 | |
| “Aus Unsere Franzosenzeit”, Wolfgang Kemp, Die Zeit, June 27, Hamburg | |
| “Review”, Ole Lindboe Kunst, Spring 1997, Copenhagen, pp. 10-12 | |
| “Interview: Joachim Koester”, Marie Lade, Ekstra Bladet, May 17, Copenhagen | |
| “Danmarks deltager pa Documenta X udstillingen”, Monica Madsen, Berlingske Tidende, May 23, Copenhagen | |
| “Review”, Information, May 26, Copenhagen | |
| “Review”, Aktuelt, April 18, Copenhagen | |
| “Review”, Politiken, April 28, Copenhagen | |
| “Review”, Politiken, May 21, Copenhagen | |
| “Review”, Jyllandsposten, May 22, Copenhagen | |
| 1996 | “Conditions of Gaze: an index to the installations of Joachim Koester”, Index, no. 4, New York, pp. 66-71, 120-123 |
| “DJ Spooky Talks”, interview by Joachim Koester Siksi, vol. Xl, no. 4, Winter Issue, Helsinki, pp. 52-55 | |
| 1995 | “Young at art”, Jonas Ekeberg, Siksi, no. 1, Helsinki, pp. 1215 |
Publications
| 2025 | Robert Smithson and Joachim Koester – En kort guide til Passaic, New Jersey |
| 2014 | Joachim Koester: Of Spirits and Empty Spaces, Mousse Publishing, Milano |
| 2009 | Changing images : Miriam Bäckström : Joachim Koester, Preus Museum |
| 2008 | Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2007 | New Photography, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Cologne, Germany |
| 2006 | Message from the Unseen, Lund Konsthall, Lund, Sweden |
| Nordenskiöld and the Ice Cap, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2005 | Message from Andrée, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| Skyggen – The Shadow, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Soro, Denmark | |
| 2004 | Home Extension (exhibition catalogue for Row Housing), University Art Museum, Albany, USA |
| Rear View Mirror, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| 2002 | Row Housing, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Joachim Koester: different stories, different places : Werke 1992-2001, Verlag für moderne Kunst | |
| 2000 | North, David Hunt, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| Organising Freedom: Nordic Art of the 90s, David Elliot, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 1999 | “How close can you get?”, Lene Crone & Lars Movin, Close-Ups: Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Lars Bang Larsen et al, Taschen, Cologne, Germany | |
| 1998 | Nordic Normads, Andrea Kroksnes, White Columns, New York, USA |
| Day for Night, Christiania 1996, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Spatial Drive: Nothing but Space, Robert Catsou, DASA, Dortmund, Germany | |
| 1994 | Alternating Realities, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Stain in Reality, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Awards
| 2013 | Winner of The Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography, Coty of Graz, Austria |
| Awarded The Danish Art Critics prize, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 2008 | Shortlisted for The Hugo Boss Prize, Administered by the Guggenheim Foundation, USA |
| 1998 | Awarded Aage og Yelva Nimbs Foundation’s Honorary Gran, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Awarded The Danish Arts Foundation’s Work Grant, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Public collections
| Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA | |
| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA | |
| Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Centro De Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, USA | |
| De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, The Netherlands | |
| FNAC Fonds national d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France | |
| Frac Bretagne, Bignan, France | |
| Frac Le Plateau, Paris, France | |
| Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France | |
| Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France | |
| KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland | |
| Kobberstiksamlingen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Kongelige Biblioteks Fotografiske Samling, Copenhagen, Denmark Krogerup Højskole, Humlebæk, Denmark |
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| Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden | |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA | |
| Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| MoMA, New York, USA | |
| Musee des arts contemporains MAC’s Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium | |
| Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | |
| Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Musuem Sztuki, Lodz, Poland | |
| Museum De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, The Netherlands | |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA | |
| Putaux, Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris, France | |
| Samlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany | |
| Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria | |
| S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium | |
| Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| The Museum of Fine Arts, Hudson, Texas, USA | |
| The West Collection, Oaks, USA | |
| Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria | |
| Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK | |
| Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark |
