Jutta Koether is a German

Germans

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 artist, musician and critic based in New York

New York

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 since the early 1990s.

Koether was born in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. Her painting

Painting

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s are exercises in colour, line, form and pattern and often feature text. Her solo show at Pat Hearn Gallery in 1997 featured a soundtrack by the artist, accompanied by Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine

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. Her visionary work, according to The NY Times, sees painting as multipurpose. She has collaborated with Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

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’s Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...

 on a number of projects, for example Her Noise at Tate Modern

Tate Modern

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 in 2005.

Selected exhibitions

2006

Love In a Void, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna

Metalist Moment, Performance, Herald St, London

2005

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, New York

2003

Desire Is War, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin

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

External links

• Jutta Koether on ArtFacts.Net
• Images, biography and texts from the Saatchi Gallery
• Article on the German Wikipedia
• 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)