Germaine Koh reference site

HIGH NOON, 2004

 

Fair-weather forces (water level) research imageContents

   

Shell, 2005

 

 

 

 

Germaine Koh — Canadian, no fixed address, born 1967 in Malaysia.

  • Germaine Koh is a Canadian visual artist active internationally. Her conceptually generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places. Her recent schedule has included shows at the BALTIC Centre (Newcastle), De Appel (Amsterdam), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Ottawa Art Gallery, and le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Bloomberg SPACE (London), the Seoul Museum of Art, Artspace (Sydney), The British Museum (London), The Power Plant (Toronto), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She has participated in the Liverpool Biennial 2004, 1998 Biennale of Sydney, and La Biennale de Montréal 2000, and she was a finalist for the 2004 Sobey Art Award. Formerly Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, she is also an independent curator and partner in the independent record label weewerk. Koh is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. URLs: www.germainekoh.com, www.catrionajeffries.com, www.weewerk.com
   

New, upcoming, recent

  • Germaine Koh at Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, 11 April – 10 May 2008
    Opening Friday 11 April, 7 – 9pm
     "Catriona Jeffries is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition of work by Germaine Koh. Ephemeral and intangible, Koh’s work focuses on often overlooked relationships between people, built and social environments and natural forces. Through the use of technological configurations that connect the movement and communication of people and natural occurrences, Koh exposes the underlying inter-relationships between mechanisms of social control, human organization and fluxuations in nature..." (more on Catriona Jeffries website)
  • Seeking participants for Call in Vancouver, 11 April to 10 May
    Do you enjoy conversation? I am looking for volunteer participants for the Vancouver presentation of Call from 11 April to 10 May. onymous.Call makes telephone connections between strangers, as a sort of open-ended experiment in how anonymous individuals interact, and a means of making unexpected connections between real people. It uses a phone that I have modified so that it each time the handset is lifted, the phone randomly dials one of the project participants. I am looking for volunteer participants in the Vancouver area who are willing to receive phone calls on your own telephone during my exhibition at Catriona Jeffries Gallery, and have phone conversations with the stranger on the other end of the line. No particular skills, background or cultural knowledge are required -- just a willingness to talk. You may speak whatever languages you can. Your conversations will not be monitored in any way, and your identity will be kept an
    Read more about the project here. To participate or if you have further questions, please email website@germainekoh.com.
  • Self-portrait in This particular day of June
    opening at Or Gallery, Vancouver, 9 May 2008
 

Fair-weather forces: wind speed, 2002

 

Germaine Koh is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery
274 East 1st Ave., Vancouver V5T1A6 Canada
telephone 1 (604) 736-1554, fax 1 (604) 736-1054
email cat_jeffries_gallery(a)telus.net

Email the artist at website(a)germainekoh.com

Updated April 2008
Text and photos on these pages are
copyright Germaine Koh unless otherwise noted.

 
Fallow, 2005