Jutta Koether (born 1958) is a German artist, musician and critic based in New York City and BerlinJutta Koether: Seasons and Sacraments, 9 February 2013 - 21 April 2013 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee. since the early 1990s.
Early life and education Koether was born in Cologne and studied art and philosophy at the University of Cologne. She relocated to New York City in 1991.Roberta Smith (June 4, 1993), Art Review: Jutta Koether New York Times.
Career 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. 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.Jutta Koether – The Thirst, 5 March, 2011 - 24 April, 2011 Moderna Museet, Stockholm. She has collaborated with Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon on a number of projects, for example Her Noise at Tate Modern in 2005.Tate.org.ukHolly Myers (August 18, 2006), A message in the starkness Los Angeles Times. Koether's work is also affiliated with Martin Kippenberger. Their relationship began in Cologne when she interviewed him for Spex magazine. Although her work is not as grandiose as Kippenberger, both their works engage with the dense history of European, and more specifically, German painting.
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.Roberta Smith (April 15, 2005), Art in Review; Jutta Koether New York Times. Her solo show at Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, in 1997 featured a soundtrack by the artist, accompanied by Tom Verlaine.William McCollum, ArtNet.com Her visionary work, according to The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith, sees painting as multipurpose.Roberta Smith, "Art in Review; Jutta Koether," NY Times
Koether’s 2009 show entitled Lux Exterior at Reena Spaulings further explored a common thematic in her work, the relation of painting with other aspects of theoretical and counter culture. Koether’s 2009 show was discussed in David Joselit’s essay entitled Painting Beside Itself. The exhibition, which included a painting entitled Hot Rod (after Poussin) (2009) along with sculptural found objects and a series of three performances, was noted by Joselit as a “sophisticated response to the question which I began [this essay]: How does a painting belong to a network?”
In spring 2012, Koether took part in the three-month exposition of Whitney Biennial. 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.Jutta Koether: Seasons and Sacraments, 4 May 2013 to 7 July 2013 Arnolfini, Bristol.
Since 1985, Koether has also worked as a reviewer and editor for many magazines and journals such as Spex, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art and Artscribe.
Koether has taught at many institutions, including Columbia University, the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, Yale University, and Bard College. From 2010 until 2024 she was a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Selected exhibitions
2024 1982,1983,1984, Galerie Buchholz, New York
2022
Black Place, Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Spain
2014 Maquis, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich 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, Köln No.5, Kunsthall Landmark, Bergen JXXXA LEIBHAFTIGE MALEREI, Sutton Lane, Paris Touch and Resist, Song Song, Wien Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
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, Köln
2000 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln zur grünen schenke-fünf uhr 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
External links Jutta Koether on [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/2887 ArtFacts.Net 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