Jan Koethe

Jan Koethe is a stainless steel sculpturer from Berlin.
He work impresses the viewer with a captivating dialogue between the material he uses and the surprisingly new language of forms he has found for it. This sculptor creates, and skilfully exploits, the contrast between cold and rigid steel and the shapes that here rise and wind upwards as if in natural and organic growth.

The characteristics of steel, hardness and heavy mass, seem to have disappeared - Köthe´s objects impress the viewer through a seeming
lightness, malleability and, in particular, structural flexibility.

When light hits the shining, ground steel surfaces, changing views become emphasized that the shapes and forms are able to present to the spectator. Rays of light on these metal objects underline viewers' impression that they are confronted with a hidden dynamic of things that flow and glide.

Individual works receive concrete statements that have a social-cultural background shown gestures. The sculptures show e.g. Statements, quotations, or statements with which Koethe is identified.

An example for primarily aesthetic influenced work is homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In this work, Koethe handles his impressions of Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin...

University of Art, Dortmund (1993-99)

CV:
1965 Born, lives and works with his family in Berlin
2002 Documenta11, Guest artist, Kassel
2004 Sponsorship award Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation
2007 International Art Prize, Galery ART-Isotope
2008 Purchase art collection, State Library, Dortmund
2011 Move to Berlin
2014 Lecturer for art, High School Berlin
2014 Jury for art, architecture award for schinkel
2015 Art prize, Museum Ostwall
2021 Art Prize Sculpture - Association of German landscape architects

Selection of exhibitions

2020 Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis, Schloß Neuhardenberg
2019 Revierkunst, Zeche Ewald, Herten
2018 AIV Schinkel, Berlin
2017 Galerie Art Consult, AJG, München
2016 Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
2015 Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin
2015 Revierkunst, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
2014 KulturQuadrat – Mauer, 25. Mauerfall/Lichtgrenze, Bernauer Straße, Berlin
2013 F-40 Kunsthof, Berlin
2012 Moving Poets, „Stahlbewegt“, Berlin
2011 Atelierauststellung „ENDE – Jan Köthe in Dortmund 1995-2011“
2010 Ruhr 2010, Starke Orte, Herne
2009 Galerie Stern, Marl
2007 Galerie Art-Isotope, Dortmund
2006 Galerie König Mixed Media 2, Münster
2005 Atelieraustellung - 10 Jahre Jan Köthe, Verformung in Objekt und Photographie 10 Jahre Christo + Jeanne-Claude, Verhüllter Reichstag, Hommage und Dokumentation, Dortmund
2004 Nam June Paik-Award, Gast des Künstlers Lucien Samaha (New York),
Phoenixhalle Dortmund
2003 Dörken Stiftung. Herdecke
2002 Documenta11 - Gastkünstler, Kassel
2001 LünTec, Lünen (G)
2000 Route der Industriekultur - Gut Schede, Wetter/Ruhr
1999 Atelierausstellung ‘Edelstahlobjekte’, Dortmund
1996 Galerie Uniewski, Dortmund


Sculptures in the public space:

2000 “Komm...