Johann Kööp 2024
Johann Kööp 2024
STATEMENT
Johann Kööp (b. 1997) is a visual artist from Estonia. Currently living and working in London, alumni of Coventry University BA Photography. Kööp works across multiple concepts and mediums, reflecting on collective and individual experiences with communication in the complex contemporary world. The work is informed a great deal through personal encounters and observations, which turns into a playful clash of subjectivity and objectivity, staying in a realm of comprehension by finding a starting point in the work of critical theories of society. The work comes to life through the use of various materials relating to home and the urban space. It mostly takes the form of fashion photography, however the inspirations behind it rather root in the public space. Through strong colour and intense light the work returns to the intensity that had once inspired it.
EXHIBITIONS
Checking the Miracle / June 5 - July 4, 2021 / Solaris Galerii, Tallinn
Connections / May 6 - May 9, 2021 / KlanGalerie, Berlin
Phantoms Among Imaginations (solo) / October 3 - March 1, 2021 / Ziferblat, Coventry
Connections / May 6 - May 9, 2021 / KlanGalerie, Berlin
Phantoms Among Imaginations (solo) / October 3 - March 1, 2021 / Ziferblat, Coventry
Self, Isolated / August 15 - October 3, 2020 / The GAP, Birmingham
Product Personality Cycle (solo) / November 30 - December 1, 2019 / Arcadia Gallery, Coventry
Tempt. / June 11 - 15, 2019 / Y2 Artspace, Groningen
Festival Terug Naar Begin / May 25 - 26, 2019 / Kerk Zeerijp, Zeerijp
Third Year Expo 2019 / March 7 - 13, 2019 / Academie Minerva Groningen
Corridor Gallery Exhibition / October 15, 2018 / Coventry University Ellen Terry Building, Coventry
Exposure Student Photo Festival / March 21 - June 23, 2018 / Old CET Building, Coventry
Spectrum: Photography showcase / March 19, 2018 / The Yard, Coventry
Exhibition of Young Estonian Photographers / November 10 - 14, 2017 / Telliskivi Roheline Saal, Tallinn
Introducing / October 3, 2017 / Coventry University Ellen Terry Building, Coventry
TRASH 2 / October 17 - November 1, 2015 / Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn
SOCIAL GATHERING / March 27, 2020 / IG Live
Tempt. / June 11 - 15, 2019 / Y2 Artspace, Groningen
Festival Terug Naar Begin / May 25 - 26, 2019 / Kerk Zeerijp, Zeerijp
Third Year Expo 2019 / March 7 - 13, 2019 / Academie Minerva Groningen
Corridor Gallery Exhibition / October 15, 2018 / Coventry University Ellen Terry Building, Coventry
Exposure Student Photo Festival / March 21 - June 23, 2018 / Old CET Building, Coventry
Spectrum: Photography showcase / March 19, 2018 / The Yard, Coventry
Exhibition of Young Estonian Photographers / November 10 - 14, 2017 / Telliskivi Roheline Saal, Tallinn
Introducing / October 3, 2017 / Coventry University Ellen Terry Building, Coventry
TRASH 2 / October 17 - November 1, 2015 / Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn
SOCIAL GATHERING / March 27, 2020 / IG Live
EDUCATION
2018 - 2019 / Academie Minerva, The Netherlands
2016 - 2020 / Coventry University BA Photogrpahy, United Kigdom
2012 - 2015 / Tallinn Old Town Educational College Art School, Estonia
FEATURES
FEATURES
Club Sandwich Magazine (print)
Mood (print + online interview)
Positiiv (print interview)
Der Greif (print + online)
Garden Zine (print + online)
French Fries Magazine (online + print)
Diet Cola Zine (print)
Paper Journal Magazine (online)
Oneg Magazine (online)
Kaltblut Magazine (online)
Uncertain Magazine (online)
Secret Knock Zine (online interview)
Artconnect (online)
Portail.ee (online)
Hooligan Hamlet (online interview)
Estonia.ee (online)
Feature shoot (online)
If You Leave (online)
Majestigal (online interview)
Doka Editions (online)
Worbz Magazine (online)
︎ Estonia
︎ United Kingdom
︎ Netherlands