Paul KOOIKER
ポール・コイカー
1964, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
Photography is emancipating. Many artists explore the limits of the medium and experiment with the interfaces between photography and other media or disciplines. Paul Kooiker has been distinctive for years with work in which photography is, as it were, freed from its traditional parameters. Kooiker can be regarded as an installation artist rather than a photographer “pur sang”. He is never after the perfect photographic image. Paul Kooiker’s work in fact always arises in post-production, in the selection and manipulation of his images.
Paul Kooiker was born in 1964 in Rotterdam, NL. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1990-1992, NL). Kooiker was awarded the Prix-de-Rome Photography in 1996 and the A. Roland Holst Award for his oeuvre in 2009. Kooiker’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows in the Netherlands and abroad, with solos at venues including Museum Folkwang, Essen (2021/22, DE); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (2020, NL);; Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2020, NL); Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam (2020, NL); FOMU Fotomuseum, Antwerp (2018, BE); Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen (2018, NL); The Hague Museum of Photography (2014, NL), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2009, NL), Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (2006, NL). Work by Paul Kooiker is held in public and private collections internationally.
Chronology
Publications
Eggs and Rarities (Art Paper Editions, Ghent)
Tokyo (Art Paper Editions, Ghent)
Nude Animal Cigar (Art Paper Editions, Ghent)
Political Chaos (Etudes Books, Paris)
S/S 13 Island (Rick Owens, Paris)
Heaven (Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam)
Sunday (Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam)
Tondeuse (JSBJ, Paris)
Crush (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)
Room Service (Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam)
Seminar (Van Zoetendaal Publishers, Amsterdam)
Hooked (with Arno Nollen), Hotel New York
Showground (Basalt Publishers, Amsterdam)
Hunting and Fishing (Basalt Publishers, Amsterdam)
Utrecht Goitre (with medical photography) (Basalt Publishers, Amsterdam)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Paul Kooiker, Light Society, Beijing, CN
Smooth Cotton, Galerie Zink Waldkirchen, Waldkirchen, DE
2022 -
FASHION, Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL (curated by Mirjam Kooiman)
2021 - Fashion. Museum Folkwang Essen, DE (curated by Thomas Seelig)
2020 - Eggs and Rarities, Museum Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk, NL
2019 - Eggs and Rarities, Otto Zoo, Milan, IT (curated by Francesco Zanot)
2018 -
Eggs and Rarities, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Untitled (Nude), FOMU, Antwerp, BE
3/5, Hydra + Fotografia, Mexico City, MX
2016 -
History X, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Haha Nude, RIOT, Gent, BE
2015 -
Nude Animal Cigar, G/P Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Nude Animal Cigar, Galerie Kromus + Zink, Berlin, DE
2014 -
Nude Animal Cigar, Fotomuseum Den Haag, NL Sunday, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, US
Paul Kooiker, RVB Gallery, Paris, FR
2013 -
Paul Kooiker, MiCamera, Milan, IT
Sunday, Galerie Wim van Krimpen, Amsterdam, NL
Room Service, ICM, Haarlem, NL
2009 -
Crush, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
A. Roland Host Award, KCB, Bergen, NL
Crush, Galerie Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, NL
2007 -
Political Chaos, Galerie Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, NL
Galerie Maurits vd Laar, Den Haag, NL 2006 Paradise twenty-one, FOAM, Amsterdam, NL
2004 -
Showground, Galerie Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, NL 2002 Hunting and Fishing, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
Hunting and Fishing, Galerie Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm, SW 2001 Modelstudies, Galerie Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam,NL
2000 -
Utrechtse Krop, Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, NL
1999 -
Hunting and Fishing, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
Hunting and Fishing, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam,NL
Utrechtse Krop, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL 1998 Janus Pact, Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL
1997 -
Galerie De Praktijk, Amsterdam, NL 1996 Galerie De Praktijk, Amsterdam, NL
Hedendaagse Fotografie, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Art of Belonging, Galerie LUMC, Leiden, NL
Reimagines the Collection, FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp, BE 10/10 galerie, Keteleer Gallery, Otegem, BE
Man Ray and Fashion, Mode Museum Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
2022 -
RAUW, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, NL
Transferring cultures into bodies, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL Superstudio #2, Stellar, Antwerpen, BE
Parents, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, NL
34 Ondergaande zonnen, Galerie Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, NL Superfan, Galerie Made van Krimpen, Amsterdam, NL
2021 -
Distorted Duets, Foundation Usine Kugler, Geneva, CH
2021 -
Listen to Your Eyes, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL (curated by Joop
van Caldenborgh)
2020 -
De tranen van Eros, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Animalia, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL (curated by Imke Ruigrok) 2019 Fotofestival Naarden: Dutch Masters & Marvelous Misfits, Naarden, NL
At the Gym, The Wite House Gallery, Lovenjoel, BE (curated by
tegenboschvanvreden)
2018 -
B is for Bird, Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL (curated by Hanne Hagenaars)
Everything happens at once, Galerie Zink, Brussels, BE
Borrador de un cuerpo intervenido, Artexarte, Buenos Aires, AR 2017 XL-Size Matters, Galerie Fifty One, Antwerp, BE
Photography and Form, Fotomuseum Den Haag, NL
Collection of Aernoud Bourdrez, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, NL Adele, Galerie Zink, Waldkirchen, DE
Rolling Snowball 8, Three shadows Art Centre, Xiamen, CN
Dazed, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, IE
2016 -
The One – The Real, Kromus + Zink, Berlin, DE
Full Moon, Museum Voorlinden, Wassernaar, NL
Still Life, Galaxy Art Center, Xiamen, CN
TOUCHED – Craftsmanship in Photography, Museum het Schip, Amsterdam, NL (curated by Anton Corbijn)
2015 -
Image As Object, Palermo Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Arcadia, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, NL
De Burgemeester van Veurne, Emergent Galerie, Veurne, BE Upcoming 20/20 Vision, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich,CH Still Life-Contemporary Dutch Photography, Shanghai, CN Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, CN
H2o Humans, Voorwerf Marineterrein, Amsterdam, NL
LaLaLa Human Steps, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL Invisible forces that determine what happens next, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
Awards
1996 - Prix de Rome Photography
