Jacqueline Kooter

JACQUELINE KOOTER

Visual artist 

Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands en 1960

info@jacquelinekooter.nl

www.jacquelinekooter.nl 

Jacqueline Kooter 1960 年於阿姆斯特丹出生，畢業於 Amsterdam Academy for the Visual Arts。她的藝術旅程由繪畫開始，繼而運用繪畫於特定場景的裝置藝術上。在過去的三年裡，她亦以獨特的手法把錄像及當代舞蹈巧妙地結合。她的作品揭示了人類肉體中的強項或弱點，以及人際關係中的種種複雜性。

ARTIST STATMENT

The visual work of Amsterdam based artist Jacqueline Kooter is about both the strength and vulnerability of the human body and about the complexity of human relations.

She works on location as well as in her studio. She started out as a painter, then used painting more and more in site-specific installations.

The last three years she has also made videos and occasionally she has combine her work with contemporary dance in different manners. On these projects she works together with the Rotterdam based contemporary dance-company Conny Janssen Danst.

In the fall of 2009, when Germany was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jacqueline Kooter spend a month as an artist-in-residence in Berlin. During her stay, she did research on the building and the fall of the Berlin Wall and on the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) / the Stasi, the Secret Service of the DDR and their archive and prison in Berlin. Themes such as the lack of freedom to move around, the lack of privacy and individuality versus group behaviour are related to her work in general, so she was inspired by her Berlin-research to make two short (dance)movies:  "Walled in"  and  "Blocked off".

Walled in. 2009 - Revision 2011. Movie

Trapped in the city. 2011. Movie

ARTIST´S  RESUME

Blocked off. 2009 - Revision 2011. Movie