Joachim Koester - Of Spirits and Empty Spaces

Joachim Koester - Of Spirits and Empty SpacesStarting in the mid 1990s, Joachim Koester (born 1962 in Copenhagen, lives and works in Copenhagen and New York) developed an oeuvre that could be described as a complex web in which journalistic and historical research fuses with personal and fictive narratives. He belongs to an artists' generation whose practices are based on what Hal Foster once described as the archival approach. Balancing the thin line between documentary and fiction, Koester's

gathers mining population

often named "post-race" society

speculative architectural cosmologies employing figu-ration

One of My Kind (OOMK) is a collaborative publishing practice led by Rose Nordin

lectures and debates in Belgrade and The Hague

circulating without an International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

These visual seductions of spectacular architecture not only advertise but also manufacture collective desires of a universal lifestyle

a textured cover paper and gold foil logo continue its relationship with special print techniques

interrupt its slow development

imbricating the developments of money and writing — from Mesopotamian clay tablets to distributed ledgers

werker 7 takes its title from the language of revolution -- tidings from the east

Afterwards