Jutta Koether
Jutta Koether (born 1958) is a German artist, musician and critic based in New York City and Berlin[1] since the early 1990s.
Early life and education
Koether was born in Cologne. She relocated to New York City in 1991.[2] She is currently a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.[1]
Work
Koether's paintings are exercises in color, line, form and pattern and often feature text. Her style has precedent in the work of Sigmar Polke and Kenny Scharf.[2] She is also inspired by artists and intellectuals who have created an alternative to mainstream culture, including underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger and musician Patti Smith.[3]
For much of the 1990s, she mixed graffiti-inspired brushwork, fluorescent colors (especially bright pink), fragmented images and assorted quotations on surfaces that had a vibrant, all-over undergrowth.[4] Her solo show at Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, in 1997 featured a soundtrack by the artist, accompanied by Tom Verlaine.[5] Her visionary work, according to The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith, sees painting as multipurpose.[6] She has collaborated with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon on a number of projects, for example Her Noise at Tate Modern in 2005.[7][8]
In spring 2012, Koether took part in the three month exposition of Whitney Biennial.[9] Around that time, she conceived two large series of works that respond directly to the French artist Nicolas Poussin, a reinterpretation of his The Seven Sacraments reimagined as a series of installations, and Seasons (2012), a response to Poussin’s The Four Seasons.[10]
Since 1985, Koether has also worked as a reviewer and editor for many magazines and journals such as Spex, Texte zur Kunst, FlashArt and Artscribe.
Selected exhibitions
2014
- Maquis, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
- A Moveable Feast - Part XV, Campoli Presti, Paris
- Champrovement, Reena Spaulings, New York
2013
- Un établissement aux Folies-Koethère, Établissement d'en face projects, Brussels
- Cycle 1. Jutta Koether. Viktoria, Luise, Isabelle, Praxes, Berlin
- The Double Session, Campoli Presti, London
- Seasons and Sacraments, Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Seasons and Sacraments, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United Kingdom
2012
- The Fifth Season, Bortolami Gallery, New York
2011
- Mad Garland, Campoli Presti, Paris
- The Thirst, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- Berliner Schlussel, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
2009
- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
- Lux Interior, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
- Sovereign Women in Painting, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2008
- New Yorker Fenster, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln
- No.5, Kunsthall Landmark, Bergen
- JXXXA LEIBHAFTIGE MALEREI, Sutton Lane, Paris
- Touch and Resist, Song Song, Wien
- Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
2007
- Anderungen aller Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
2006
- Love In a Void, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
- Metalist Moment, Performance, Herald St, London
2005
- Very Lost Highway, Simultanhalle, Köln
- extreme harsh, Ausstellungsraum Ursula Werz, Tübingen
- I Is Had Gone, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
- Her Noise, South London Gallery, London
- Blankness is not a Void, Standard Oslo, Oslo
- Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether, Talk and Performance at Tate Modern, London
2004
- Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, New York City
- Fresh Aufhebung - Künstlerisches Interesse am philosophische verneinten Wunderglauben, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
- Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
- Fresh Aufhebung, 271 Grand Street, New York
2003
- Desire Is War, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
- The Club in the Shadow, in collaboration with Kim Gordon, Kenny Schachter conTEMPorary, New York
2002
- Black Bonds, Jutta Koether and Steven Parrino, Swiss Institute, New York
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln
2000
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln
- zur grunen schenke-funf nachmittags. die geheimen Bilder, Galerie Freund, Wien
1999
1998
Brushholder Value, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1994
Dysfunction USA, Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans
1993
Parralax View: Cologne-New York, P.S. 1 Institute for Contemporary Art, New York
1987
Werkschau Jutta Koether, Kunstraum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
References
- ^ a b Jutta Koether: Seasons and Sacraments, 9 February 2013 - 21 April 2013 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee.
- ^ a b Roberta Smith (June 4, 1993), Art Review: Jutta Koether New York Times.
- ^ Jutta Koether – The Thirst, 5 March, 2011 - 24 April, 2011 Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
- ^ Roberta Smith (April 15, 2005), Art in Review; Jutta Koether New York Times.
- ^ William McCollum, ArtNet.com
- ^ Roberta Smith, "Art in Review; Jutta Koether," NY Times
- ^ Tate.org.uk
- ^ Holly Myers (August 18, 2006), A message in the starkness Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Roberta Smith (March 1, 2012). "A Survey of a Different Color 2012 Whitney Biennial". NY Times. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
- ^ Jutta Koether: Seasons and Sacraments, 4 May 2013 to 7 July 2013 Arnolfini, Bristol.
External links
- Jutta Koether on ArtFacts.Net
- Images, biography and texts from the Saatchi Gallery
- Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Jutta Koether Biographie, Pressemitteilungen und Arbeiten General information on Jutta Koether
- Martin Pesch: Jutta Koether at Galerie Daniel Bucholz (Review)
- Jutta Koether at Campoli Presti
