GALLERI NICOLAI WALLNER

 

 

 

 

njalsgade 21 • building 15 • 2300 copenhagen s • denmark • phone:
+4532570970 • fax: +4532570971 • contact: nw@nicolaiwallner.com

 

 

 

Joachim Koester

Born 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives and works in New York, USA

 

Education

1987-93 The Royal Danish Academy of fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Solo exhibitions

2008 Tarantism & Pit Music, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, 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, Antwerpen, Belgium
  Twelve (Former) Real eEstate Opportunities, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium
2006 The Magic Mirror of John Dee, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  Messages from the Unseen, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
  Centre d'art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
  Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium
  Morning of the Magicians and other works, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
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, Netherlands
2002 Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
  Galleri Nicloai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  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, England
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
1996 Pit Music, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 The Agency, London, England
  Ynglingagatan, Stockholm, Sweden
  Traneudstilling, Gentofte Kunstbibliotek, Gentofte, Denmark


Group exhibitions (selected)

2008 Danskjävlar- en svensk kærlighedserklæring, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  In the Poem About Love You Dont Write The Word Love, Overgaden, Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Der Droste Effekt, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
  Moscow Biennale, Moscow
  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
  Biennale di Venezia, Slovenian Pavillion, Venezia, Italy
  Tokyo Redux, Chateau de tokyo, Centre International d'art et du Paysage de l'île de Vassivére, 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, U.S.A.
  Mystic Truths, Auckland Art gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  1st Thessaoniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
  8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, Dubai
  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, United Kingdom
  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, United Kingdom
  5 Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A
  Keeping Secrets, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
  Momentum, Moss, Norway
  Frieze Film and Video Programme, Artist Cinema at Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
  Busan Biennale, Busan, 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, United Kingdom
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, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
  Message from Andrée, Andrée Museet, Granna, Sweden
  3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Malmö Konsthal, Malmö
  Woods, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Austria
  Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California, USA
2004 In den Wäldern, Jahresmuseum 2005, Kunsthaus Muerz, 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, England
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, 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
  Tomos Somos pecadores, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterry, 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, England
  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, Ontario, 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
  Lè Grând Præmière Opénïng Shöw, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Public Private, Monte Video/TBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Cinéma-Cinéma, Van AbbeMuseum Eindhoven, The Netherland.
  Blondes on bikes, Newsantandrea, Savona, Italy
  Nordiske Klassikere, Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen, Norge
  H:MIN:SEC, Kunstraum Insbruck, Insbruck, Austria
  Close-Up, Nicolai Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998 Young Danish Artists, Sint-Lukasgalerij, Bruxelles, Belgium
  Nordic Normads, White Colums, 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 Blånche, Museée d'art moderne de la Ville de 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
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, Humlebæk, 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
1995 Song Lines, Kwangju Bienale, South Korea
  D.A.D, Uppsala Konstmuseum, 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, England
  Proms 2, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
  Stain in Reality, with S. Douglas & D. Gordon, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
1993 17:00 cet, Stalke out of Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Blackbox, Globe, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Opening show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
1992 Baghuset, Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
  90'ernes fotografiske billede, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark


Articles/reviews (selected)

2006 "Blind Spots" by Hal Foster, Artforum, April, p. 212-217
  Liutauras Psibilskis, IX Balitic Triennial of International Art, Artforum, February
  Review by Henrikke Nielsen, Flash Art, March-April
  "Joachim Koester un mirage au Palais de Tokyo" by FrŽdŽric Maufras, Standard, December-Februar
  Palais, Palais de Tokyo, magazine 01
  Review by Staffan Boije af Grennas, Frieze, issue 99, May
  "Go East, from Kosovo to Kaliningrad" by Aron Moulton, Flash Art, November - December
  "Histories - Joachim Koester" by Anne-Marie Poels, <H> ART, February
2005 "New York Tales" by Andrea Bellini, Flash Art, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 243, Summer, p. 114-116
  "Skyggen - The Shadow" (exh. cat.), Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
  "Place" by Tacita Dean and Jeremy Millar, "Room Four, Myth/History" p. 90-91
  "Surface Tensions, Nature" by Colin Martin, The International Weekly Journal of Science, August 4
  Review by Michael Wilson, Artforum, September
  George Baker, Photography's Expanded Field, October 114, Fall
  Walter Seidl, IX Baltic Triennal of International Art, Camera Austria
  The Artist's Artists, Artforum, December
  Emily King, Paper Trail, Frieze, Issue 93, September
  "In Between Days" by Andrea K. Scott, TimeOut New York, May 12, p. 73 - 74
  Roberta Smith, Sandra of the Tuliphouse, The New York Times, June 10
2004 Mark Wilsher, Rear View Mirror, Art Monthly, November
  Elizabeth Fischer, Rear View Mirror (cat.)
  Sabine Russ, Row Housing, Home Extensions (cat.)
2003 Focus Photography, Flash Art International no. 233, November - December, p. 87
  Sound Systems, Magasin 8, Salzburger Kunstverein, text by Hildegrund Amanshauser
  "Joachim Koester's Ice Narratology" by Lars Bang Larsen, Le récit #2, p. 72 Đ 80
  "Towards a Post Cinematic Space-Time" by Jean-Christophe Royoux, Black Box Illuminated, Iaspis, Nifca, Propexus
2002 "Points of Suspension" by Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester, October #100, p. 55-63
  "The Waste Land" by Susanne Neuburger, Camera Austria International Nr. 77
  "The Waste Land" by Rainer Metzger, Kunstforum International, Nr. 158, January - March
2001 "Au Mileu De Nulle Part; Joachim Koester se penche sur des extraterrestres", Technikart, April
  Review by Cedric Aurelle, Paris Photo, April - May
  "Joachim Koester, Jean-Marie Straub et Daniele Huillet" by Denis Gaudel, Art Contemporain, May
  "Koester an CNP", Le Journal Des Arts, March 16-29, No. 123
  "Les Aventures Du Capitaine Koester" by Emanuelle Leqeux, Le Monde Aden, March
  "Des images en quete de recits; Les Cineastes Straub at Huillet at l'artiste Joachim" by Olivier Michilaux
  Review by Dominique Baque, Art Press, May.
2000 Greater New York, P.S. 1 website, March, by Nina Servizzi
  Joachim Koester: Greenwich Meridian, Art/Text, p. 72-75, Feb-April, by Lars Bang Larsen.
  Joachim Koester: Northwood and Other Places, Artlies, Summer, p.79, by Wendy Weil Atwell
  Review by Laurence Hegarty, Art papers, September/October, p 45-46
  "Beyond Recognition: Joachim Koester's Arctic Explorations" by Kristine Kern (cat.)
  Greater New York, Berlin Tageszeitung, March 15, by Christopher Philips
  "From Here to Betweenity" review by Roy Exley, Parachute: Para-Para, October-December
  "Mix of lens and light creates what it's not" by Dan R. Goddard, San Antonio Express-News, July 9
  Review by Pernille Grane, Art Press, June, No. 258
  Review by Saul Anton, TimeOut, New York, May 25 - June 1, No. 244
1999 "Cinema Cinema in Van Abbemuseum", review by Paul de Mol, Brabant Cultureel, January/February, vol. 48, p. 31-33
  Interview by Maia Damianovic, Camera Austria no. 66
  "Blue Haze: Images from a recent dream" by Catsou Roberts, Camera
  "Denmark: Double Agents" by Malene Vest Hansen, Art Journal, Summer
  "Cinema, Cinema", review by Michael Gibbs, Art Monthly, April, p. 24-26
  "The Cinematic Experience in het Van Abbemuseum", Cursor, February 18, vol. 41, no. 22
  Review by Paco Barragan, El Periodico Del Arte, April, p.18
1998 Fatale Kringloop, Metropolis M, World Wide Video Festival no. 6, pp. 48-49, December 97/Januar 98, by Paul Groot
  New York; a season of artists in Galleries, Tema Celeste p. 53, September, by Maia Damianovic.
  "Nothing but space", Flash Art, p. 46, May - June
"How and why did we get from H. C. Andersen to this?" by Yvette Brackman, New Art Examiner pp. 36-41, July - August
Aperto Copenhagen, Flash Art pp. 105 - 107, Summer, by Franklin Sirmans
  Psibilskis, Liutauras Review "Twilight", Siksi, Spring, p.85-86
  "A Project for Atlantica with Matthew Buckingham", Atlantica International, Number 19, 1998
Review by Milou Allerholm, Dagens Nyheter, March 7
Review by Alexandra Melo, The Louisiana Exhibition 1997, Artforum, pp. 111-112, March
"Joachim Koester, entre documentation et dramatisation" by Catsou Roberts, Artpress no. 232, pp. 44-48, February
1997 "Little d big X" by Daniel Birnbaum, Artforum, p.p. 108-112, September
"Scania's Art Scene" by Franklin Sirmans, Flash Art, p. 52, November/December
  "Joachim Koester at Greene Naftali" by Joshua Dector, Artforum, pp.120-21, December
"Double Vision" by Simon Sheikh, World Art, pp. 32-36, December
"Documenta X" by Barry Schwabsky, World Art, pp. 68-70, December
Review by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, October 10
Review by Sarah Schmerier, Time Out, p. 43 September 15
"Art's Summer of Discontent" by Maia Daamianovic, pp. 29-34, September 15
"Narrative, time and space..." by Catsou Roberts, Siksi, pp.58-61, Summer
"Aus Unsere Franzosenzeit" by Wolfgang Kemp, Die Zeit, June 27
1996 Conditions of Gaze: an index to the installations of Joachim Koester, Index, no. 4, pp. 66-71 (pp. 120-123)
DJ Spooky Talks, Siksi Xl, no. 4, p.p. 52-55, Winter 1996, interview by Joachim Koester
1995 "Young at art" by Jonas Ekeberg., Siksi no. 1, p.p. 12 - 15
 
 


Danish press (selected)

2004 "Dobbelt eksistens" by Michel Henri, Magasinet Kunst, jan-feb, pp. 29-31
1998 Blender nr. 3 november, pp. 124-128, by Karsten R.S. Ifversen
1997 Kunst, Efteråret 1997, p. 10-12, by Ole Lindboe
  Ekstra Bladet 17. Maj
  Berlingske Tidende 23. Maj
  Information 26. Maj
  Aktuelt 18. April
  Aktuelt 18. April
  Politiken 28. April
  Politiken 21. Maj
  Jyllandsposten 22. Maj


Publications

2007 New Photography, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag
2006 Message from the Unseen, monograph, Lund Konsthall
  Nordenskiöld and the Ice Cap, monograph, Space Poetry
2005 Message from Andrée, monograph, Venice Biennale
2002 Row Housing, Monograph, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 Hunt, David, North, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
  Elliot, David, editor, Organising Freedom: Nordic Art of the 90s, Moderna Museet
1999 Lene Crone & Lars Movin, "How close can you get?", Close-Ups: Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, exhibition catalogue
 
  Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Taschen
1998 Kroksnes, Andrea, "Nordic Nomads", White Columns, exhibition catalogue
  Day for Night, Christiania 1996, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Roberts, Catsou, "Spatial Drive", Nothing but Space, Dortmund, exhibition catalogue
1994 Alternating Realities, exhibition catalogue, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Stain in Reality, exhibition catalogue, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark


Public collections

  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
  Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
  Putaux, Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris, France
  Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Hudson, Texas, USA
  Musee des arts contemporains MAC's Grand-Hornu, Belgium
  De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, Holland
  Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
  KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
  Kobberstiksamlingen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Kongelige Biblioteks Fotografiske Samling, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
  Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
  Samlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany