Joachim Koester (b. 1962) is a Danish contemporary artist who primarily works in installation, photography, and sound art. His work can be found in major metropolitan museums including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou.

Biography

Joachim Koester was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1962, and lives between Copenhagen and Brooklyn. He travels the world, using art as a tool to document lesser-known locations and draw attention to historical events. He combines elements of both reality and imagination to tell his stories. Art critic Hal Foster has characterized his work as being "along the borders between documentary and fiction."

Education

Joachim Koester attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1987 to 1993 where he earned his art degree. He is currently a professor of Fine Arts at Malmö Art Academy in Malmö, Sweden.

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Joachim Koester's work can be found in prestigious collections such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and Staten's Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. His piece titled My Frontier Is an Endless Wall of Points can be found at the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia. Koester's work titled Tarantism is also featured at the Tate Modern Museum in Bankside, London.

Awards

Joachim Koester was awarded the 2013 Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography for his piece From the Secret Garden of Sleep #6 from 2008. With his exceptional skills in visual arts particularly in photography, Koester impressed the judges of the Camera Austria award by being able to seamlessly blending elements of reality and fiction. In 2008 Koester was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize, but ultimately lost to Emily Jacir.

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