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

2013

2012

2011

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

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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

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