Joachim Koester

Joachim Koester is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. 
His work has been shown at documenta X, Kassel; 2nd Johannesburg Biennale; Gwangju Biennale 1995; 54th Venice Biennale; Busan Biennale 2006; Manifesta 7, Trento; Tate Triennial 2009, London; and Taipei Biennale 2012, as well as in solo shows at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Camden Arts Centre, London; Centre national de la photographie, Paris; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; Power Plant, Toronto; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne; MIT, Boston; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; S.M.A.K, Ghent; Camera Austria, Graz; Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva; Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York; Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; Gallery Jan Mot, Brussels; and Camden Arts Centre, London. 
Koester’s work can be found in the following museums and collections: Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Reina Sofia Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Madrid; Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam; S.M.A.K, Ghent; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Kiasma, Helsinki; Kongelige Biblioteks Fotografiske Samling, Copenhagen; Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris; Sorø Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Malmö Konstmuseum; Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; MAC’s, Grand-Hornu; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; FRAC Le Plateau, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne; Generali Foundation, Vienna; Sammlung Verbund, Vienna; and Museum Sztuki, Łódź. 
Publications on his work include Joachim Koester, maybe one must begin with some particular places (Guayaba Press, 2015); Joachim Koester: Of Spirits and Empty Spaces (Mousse Publishing, 2014); Joachim Koester: I Myself am only a receiving apparatus (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2011); Joachim Koester: Message from the Unseen (Lunds Konsthall, 2006); Joachim Koester: Nordenskiöld and the Ice Cap (Space Poetry, 2006); and Joachim Koester: Message from Andrée (Lukas & Sternberg and Pork Salad Press, 2005).

Joachim Koesters work can be found in the following museums and collections: 
Tate Modern, London, Mamco, 
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Genéve, 
Museo Jumex, Mexico City