Solo Exhibitions:
2013
- Kamloops Art Gallery, Germaine Koh: Weather Systems, Kamloops, BC, 2013.
Curator: Charo Neville.
2012
- Galerie B-312, Germaine Koh - Knitwork; Germaine Koh/Gordon Hicks - There|Here, Montreal, 2012.
Participants: Gordon Hicks.
Gallery page
Image
2010
- Invaliden 1 Galerie, The Haunting, Berlin, 2010.
Link
2009
- Charles H Scott Gallery, Fallow, Vancouver, BC, Feb-Mar 2009.
Curator: Cate Rimmer.
Exhibition page
Image
2008
- Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Germaine Koh, Vancouver, BC, Apr-May 2008.
2007
- Video Pool, Germaine Koh: Call and Relay, Winnipeg, MB, Oct-Nov 2007.
- Centre A, Overflow, Vancouver, BC, Jan-Feb 2007.
2006
- Ottawa Art Gallery, Germaine Koh, Ottawa, ON, Aug-Oct 2006.
Curator: Emily Falvey.
Exhibition page
2005
- Angel Row Gallery, Knitwork, Nottingham, UK, Sep-Nov 2005.
Curator: Helen Jones.
PDF
- Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Fallow, Berlin, 2005.
PDF
- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Germaine Koh: Relay, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK, Jun-Aug 2005.
Curator: Sarah Cook.
Image
- Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Germaine Koh: Shell, Vancouver, BC, Jan-Feb 2005.
2004
- Para/Site Art Space, Germaine Koh: Stall, Hong Kong, 2004.
2003
- Artspace, Homemaking, Sydney, AU, May 2003.
2002
- McMaster Museum of Art, Germaine Koh: Open Hours, Hamilton. ON, Fall 2002.
- Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Germaine Koh, Vancouver, BC, Apr-Jun 2002.
- The British Museum, Knitwork, London, UK, Feb-Apr 2002.
Performance/installation related to conference "From Material Things: art and artefact in the 21st century".
Curator: James Putnam & Gabriela Salgado.
2001
- Plug In ICA and Gallery One One One, Germaine Koh: Around/About, Winnipeg, MB, Nov 2001-Jan 2002.
Curator: Christina Ritchie.
- Contemporary Art Gallery, Germaine Koh, Vancouver, BC, May-Jul 2001.
Curator: Keith Wallace.
- Solo Exhibition, Watch, Toronto, ON, 5-7 Feb 2001.
Curator: Barr Gilmore.
2000
- Latitude 53, Journal, Edmonton, AB, Sep-Oct 2000.
Curator: Todd Janes.
- Arte in Situ / La Torre de los Vientos, by the way, Mexico City, Jun 2000.
Curator: Antonio Outón & Pedro Reyes.
1999
- Ex Teresa Arte Actual, En busca del nivel del lago, Mexico City, 1999.
Curator: Guillermo Santamarina.
1998
- YYZ Artists' Outlet, Notices, Toronto, ON, Apr-May 1998.
1997
- Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Germaine Koh: Knitwork, Lethbridge, AB, 1997.
Curator: Joan Stebbins.
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Germaine Koh: Personal, Kingston, ON, 1997.
Curator: Jan Allen.
1996
- eyelevel, Knitwork, Halifax, NS, 1996.
1995
- Yukon Arts Centre, Knitwork, Whitehorse, YK, 1995.
1993
- B-312, Knitwork/Tricot-âge, Montreal, QC, Sep-Nov 1993.
1991
- Gallery 101, The International Code of Signals Paintings, Ottawa, ON, Aug-Sep 1991.
Curator: Daniel Sharp.
Commissions:
2011
- City of Winnipeg Public Art Program, DIY Field, Winnipeg MB, 2011.
2009
- City of Vancouver and Translink, 88 Blocks: Main Street Urban Transportation Showcase, Vancouver, BC, 2009.
Permanent and temporary public art commissions
- Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, Candelabrum, Vancouver, BC, 2009.
Permanent public art commission
Group Exhibitions:
2011
- City of Toronto, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche: Zone A Zone A: 'Restaging the Encounter'
Curator: Candice Hopkins.
- Surrey Art Gallery, There/Here: Germaine Koh and Gordon Hicks, Surrey, BC, 2011.
Participants: with Gordon Hicks.
Curator: Jordan Strom.
2010
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes & Social Control, Kingston, ON, Jan-Apr 2010.
Participants: with Ian Verchere.
Curator: Jan Allen & Sarah E.K. Smith.
Press release
2009
- Luminato Festival of Arts + Creativity, Luminato Festival 2009, Toronto, ON, Jun 2009.
- Vancouver Art Gallery, How Soon Is Now, Vancouver, BC, Feb-May 2009.
Participants: Jackson 2bears, Abbas Akhavan, Sonny Assu, Noah Becker, Raymond Boisjoly, Cedric/Nathan/Jim Bomford, Aaron Carpenter, Hadley+Maxwell, Antonia Hirsch, Allison Hrabluik, Instant Coffee, Christian Kliegel, Laiwan, Kristi Malakoff, Kyla Mallett[...].
Curator: Kathleen Ritter.
Exhibition page
- Prairie Art Gallery , Here Now or Nowhere, Grande Prairie, AB, Jan 2009.
Art in public places.
Curator: Micah Lexier.
PDF
2008
- [space], Schematic: New Media Art from Canada, London, UK, Nov-Dec 2008.
Participants: Peter Flemming, Germaine Koh, Joe Mckay, Nicholas Stedman, Norman White.
Curator: Michelle Kasprzak, Gillian McIver & Heather Corcoran.
Exhibition page
- Art Gallery of Ontario, All Together Now: Recent Toronto Art, Toronto, ON, Nov 2008-Spring 2009.
Installation of works from the permanent collection.
Participants: Kelly Mark, Nestor Kruger, James Carl, Instant Coffee, Marla Hlady, Gwen Macgregor, Lewis Nicholson, Germaine Koh.
Curator: Michelle Jacques.
- eyebeam, Untethered, New York, Sep-Oct 2008.
Curator: Sarah Cook.
Exhibition page
PDF
- Or Gallery, This Particular Day of June, Vancouver, BC, May-Jun 2008.
Participants: Alejandro Cesarco, Germaine Koh, Micah Lexier.
Curator: Jonathan Middleton.
2007
- Artists Space, On Being An Exhibition, New York, Oct-Dec 2007.
Participants: BGL, Conrad Bakker, Beth Campbell, Valerie Hegarty, Germaine Koh, Isola and Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Derek Sullivan, Anne Walsh/Chris Kubick, Lee Walton, Laurel Woodcock.
Curator: Joseph del Pesco.
Image
- Ingenuity Festival, Ingenuity Festival 2007, Cleveland, OH, 2007.
Curator: Steve Dietz.
2006
- Folly, f.city, Lancaster, UK, Sep-Oct 2006.
- ISEA / 01SJ, ISEA 2006 / Zero One San Jose, San Jose, CA, 7-13 Aug 2006.
Curator: Steve Dietz.
- Mackenzie Art Gallery, 2004 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Regina, SK, Jul-Sep 2006.
- Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery, Territory, Vancouver, BC, Jun-Aug 2006.
Participants: Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla, Roy Arden, Atlas Group, Walid Raad, Yael Bartana, Cao Fei, Germaine Koh, Gonzalo Lebrija, Jayce Salloum, Seripop, Ron Terada.
Curator: Melanie O'Brian & Helga Pakasaar.
Exhibition page
2005
- Art Forum Berlin, Temporary Import / Vorübergehende Einfuhr, Berlin, Sep 2005.
Curator: Susanne Titz.
- Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2004 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Toronto, ON, Sep-Nov 2005.
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2004 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Victoria, BC, Jul-Aug 2005.
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, L'envers des apparences, Montreal, QC, Summer 2005.
Curator: Gilles Godmer.
- Yukon Arts Centre, 2004 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Whitehorse, YK, Mar-May 2005.
2004
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2004 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Halifax, NS, Oct-Dec 2004.
Touring 2005-06 to Yukon Art Centre (Whitehorse), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina).
- Edmonton Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Alberta), Sense, Edmonton, AB, Sep-Nov 2004.
Curator: Catherine Crowston.
- Liverpool Biennial, 3rd Liverpool Biennial International, Liverpool, UK, Sep-Nov 2004.
- Galerie d'Art du Parc, Entre ciel et terre - Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine 2004, Trois-Rivières, QC, Jun-Aug 2004.
Curator: Gaston St-Pierre.
2003
- YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Psychotopes, Toronto, ON, Sep-Oct 2003.
Participants: Derek Sullivan, John Massey, Scott Lyall, Day Milman & & Paige Gratland, Robin Collyer, Jay Wilson, Corwyn Lund, Lisa Kannakko, Instant Coffee, Olia Mischenko, & Steve Kado, Andrew Reyes, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Bill Burns, Corinne Carlson(...).
Curator: Markus Müller.
- Frankfurter Kunstverein, Nation, Frankfurt, May-Aug 2003.
Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen.
- McMaster University campus, re:cycle, Hamilton. ON, 2003.
Temporary public art projects.
2002
- Power Plant, IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR, Toronto, ON, Jun-Sep 2002.
Participants: Nestor Kruger, David Armstrong-Six, Germaine Koh.
Curator: Xandra Eden.
- Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Signage, Vancouver, BC, Jun-Aug 2002.
2001
- Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Art - Supernatural Fairytales (Pink Island), Vancouver, BC, 2001.
2000
- Biennale de Montréal, Tout le temps / Every Time, Montreal, QC, 2000.
Curator: Peggy Gale.
- Gendai Gallery, Recollection Project, Toronto, ON, 2000.
1999
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Waste Management, Toronto, ON, Apr-Jul 1999.
Participants: Tom Friedman, Germaine Koh, Michael Landy, Daniel Olson, Sandra Recchio, Joseph Scanlan, David Shrigley, Kelly Wood.
Curator: Christina Ritchie.
Exhibition page
PDF
1998
- Biennale of Sydney, Every Day: 11th Biennale of Sydney , Sydney, AU, Sep-Nov 1998.
Curator: Jonathan Watkins.
1995
- Center on Contemporary Art, Home Remedies and Magnificent Obsessions, Seattle, WA, Jul-Aug 1995.
Participants: Wilbur Hathaway, Janice Kerbel, Scott MacGregor, Raymond Materson, Gerard Menendez & Byron Lymburn, Thomas O'Day, Juniper Tedhams, Jeanne Voltura, Germaine Koh.
Curator: Susan Purves.
- The New Gallery, Bodies of Evidence, Calgary, AB, Jun 1995.
Participants: Janice Kerbel, Germaine Koh.
Curator: Dionne McAffee.
1994
- Ottawa Art Gallery, Monuments in the present tense, Ottawa, ON, Spring 1994.
Participants: Aoife Mac Namara, Ellen Treciokas, Mindy Yan Miller, Germaine Koh.
Curator: Jean-François Renaud.
Catalogues & Books:
2013
- Kamloops Art Gallery (forthcoming), Germaine Koh: Weather Systems, Kamloops, 2013.
Author: Markus Miessen & Yulia Startsev, Sarah Cook.
2012
- ECU Press and Charles H. Scott Gallery, Fallow, Vancouver, 2012.
Author: Germaine Koh, Cate Rimmer & Lisa Robertson.
2010
- Gestalten, Data Flow 2, Berlin, 2010.
Author: Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, Nicolas Bourquin & Thibaud Tissot, eds..
Book info
2009
- Vancouver Art Gallery, How Soon Is Now, Vancouver, BC, 2009.
Author: Kathleen Ritter.
PDF
2008
- Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery, Territory, Vancouver, BC, 2008.
PDF
2007
- Artists Space, On Being An Exhibition: a Book of Quotations, New York, 2007.
Author: Joseph del Pesco ed..
PDF
- Centre A, Germaine Koh: Overflow, Vancouver, BC, 2007.
Author: Clint Burnham.
PDF
2005
- "Hidden Rhythms", Museum Het Valkhof and Paraplufabriek, Hidden Rhythms, Nijmegen, NL, 2005.
Author: Hilde de Bruijn.
PDF
- Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germaine Koh Works., Berlin, 2005.
Author: Patrice Loubier, Ken Babstock, Gerrit Gohlke.
PDF
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, L'envers des apparences, Montreal, QC, 2005.
Author: Gilles Godmer with Nathalie de Blois.
- "chronocidal citizens", Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Germaine Koh: Shell, Vancouver, BC, 2005.
Author: Monika Szewczyk.
Read
2004
- "Stand Up and Be Counted: The Quotidian Work of Germaine Koh", Para/Site Art Space, Germaine Koh: Stall, Hong Kong, 2004.
Author: Dave Dyment.
Read
2003
- "The Partial Architecture of Ruins", Artspace, Germaine Koh, Homemaking, Sydney, AU, 2003.
Author: Adam Geczy.
Read
2002
- McMaster Museum of Art, Germaine Koh: Open Hours, Hamilton. ON, 2002.
Author: Steve Reinke, Rosemary Heather.
- "The Way the Wind Lies: Germaine Koh's Codes of Contingency", Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Germaine Koh, Vancouver, BC, 2002.
Author: Melanie O'Brian.
Read
- "phaino", Power Plant, Bounce / IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR, Toronto, ON, 2002.
P. 36-47, catalogue essay.
Author: Xandra Eden.
PDF
2001
- "An introduction and interview", Gallery One One One, Germaine Koh: Around About , Winnipeg, MB, 2001.
CD-ROM publication.
Author: Cliff Eyland.
Link to essay
PDF
- "Immanent Domain", Contemporary Art Gallery, Germaine Koh, Vancouver, BC, 2001.
Author: Laura U Marks.
PDF
2000
- Gendai Gallery, Recollection Project, Toronto, ON, 2000.
Author: Bryce Kanbara, Richard Fung.
1999
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Waste Management, Toronto, ON, 1999.
Author: Christina Ritchie.
1998
- Biennale of Sydney, Every Day: 11th Biennale of Sydney , Sydney, AU, 1998.
Author: Jonathan Watkins & Jo Spark eds..
PDF
1997
- Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Germaine Koh: Personal, Kingston, ON, 1997.
Author: Jan Allen, Wayne Baerwaldt.
Reviews, Articles & Essays:
2013
- "Germaine Koh: Brewing Up Conceptual Art", Galleries West, Galleries West, Kelowna, BC, 2013.
Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2013, p. 31-33.
Author: Beverly Cramp.
Digital edition
2012
- "LIght Plain / Plain of Light", Border Crossings, Border Crossings, Winnipeg, 2012.
No. 121, p. 18.
Author: Robert Enright.
Online
- "Maille après maille", Le Devoir, Le Devoir, Montreal, 2012.
Author: Marie-Ève Charron.
Online version
2011
- "Light therapy", Uptown Magazine, Uptown, Winnipeg, 2011.
Author: Steven Leyden Cochrane.
online
2010
- "Germaine Koh: Call and Relay", Video Pool, annual publication, Winnipeg, MB, forthcoming.
Forthcoming in annual publication.
Author: Sarah Cook.
Read
2009
- "Germaine Koh, Fallow", esse arts + opinions, esse, Montreal, QC, Spring-Summer 2009.
No. 66.
Author: Kathleen Ritter.
Online version
PDF
- "Vancouver", Akimbo, Akimblog, Toronto, ON, 12 Mar 2009.
Author: Aaron Peck.
Online version
PDF
- "Q&A with Germaine Koh", Artsy-Dartsy.com, Artsy! Dartsy!, Vancouver, BC, 17 Feb 2009.
Interview. Author: Artsy! Dartsy! editors.
Online version
PDF
- "Pictures are out – experience is in", Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, 14 Feb 2009.
Review of CH Scott and VAG shows. Author: Sarah Milroy.
Online version
PDF
- "Threshold", CJ Press, essay, Vancouver, BC, 2009.
Author: Samir Gandesha.
PDF
2008
- "Schematic: the Machine that Moves Us", [space], exhibition essay, London, UK, Nov-Dec 2008.
Author: Michelle Kasprzak.
PDF
- "Germaine Koh paints layers of identity", Georgia Straight, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC, 1 May 2008.
Author: Robin Laurence.
Online version
PDF
2007
- "Germaine Koh: Overflow", Georgia Straight, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC, 8 Feb 2007.
Review of "Overflow". Author: Robin Laurence.
Online version
Read on Web
- "The art of remembering snow", Toronto Star, Toronto Star, Toronto, ON, 7 Jan 2007.
Article on art about climate change.
Author: Leah Sandals.
PDF
2006
- "Law and Ordering: On Evaluating Recent Canadian Neoconceptualism", C Magazine, C Magazine, Toronto, ON, Autumn 2006.
No. 91, pp. 30-35.
Author: Earl Miller.
PDF
- "Postmark Berlin", Canadian Art, Canadian Art, Toronto, ON, Spring 2006.
P. 62-67, feature on Canadian artists in Berlin.
Author: Sascha Hastings.
PDF
2005
- "Random acts of weirdness", Toronto Star, Toronto Star, Toronto, ON, 24 Jun 2005.
Article about interventionist artwork.
Author: Murray Whyte.
Read
- "Germaine Koh, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver", C Magazine, C Magazine, Toronto, ON, Summer 2005.
No. 86, p. 48.
Author: Kyla Mallett.
PDF
- "Koh's Work Focuses on Meaningful Details", Georgia Straight, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC, 27 Jan 2005.
Author: Christopher Brayshaw.
Online version
- "Sprache jenseits des Alphabets / Speech Beyond the Alphabet", Kunestlerhaus Bethanien, Be Magazine, Berlin, 2005.
No. 12, p. 122-127.
Author: Vanessa Joan Müller.
PDF
2004
- "Making the mundane remarkable", Halifax Herald, Halifax Herald, Halifax, NS, 29 Sep 2004.
Artist profile for 2004 Sobey Art Award.
Author: Elissa Barnard.
Read
- "5 Questions for Germaine Koh Relating to Conceptual Art", unpublished, interview, Guelph, ON, Feb 2004.
Author: Chantal Rousseau.
Read
2003
- "The we of weewerk", Lola, Lola, Toronto, ON, Spring 2003.
No.15, article about weewerk. Subject: Derek Sullivan, Kelly Mark, Phil Klygo, Bob Wiseman, Bruce laBruce, Scott Treleavan.
Author: Catherine Osborne.
PDF
- "Arty House Party", Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, 28 Jan 2003.
Article about weewerk.
Author: R.M. Vaughan.
PDF
2002
- "Small Gestures and Acts of Grace: An Interview with Germaine Koh", Women: a cultural review, Women: a cultural review, Oxfordshire, UK, Winter 2002.
13:3, p. 356-369. Author: Pennina Barnett.
PDF
- "Fresh Eyes", TIME Magazine, Canadian edition, TIME Magazine, Canadian edition, Toronto, ON, 14 Oct 2002.
P. 58-65.
Author: Marc Mayer, Christopher Brayshaw et al.
PDF
- "Meaning Blows in on Wind", Georgia Straight, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC, 9-16 May 2002.
P. 56, review of Catriona Jeffries Gallery exhibition.
Author: Robin Laurence.
PDF
- "Germaine Koh: Around About", Border Crossings, Border Crossings, Winnipeg, MB, Spring 2002.
P. 81-83, reprint of catalogue essay.
Author: Cliff Eyland.
2001
- "The Best of the Rest", Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, 3 Nov 2001.
P. V7.
Author: Sarah Milroy.
PDF
- "Life at the new Contemporary Art Gallery: Germaine Koh & Ken Lum", Vie des Arts, Vie des Arts, Québec, QC, Summer 2001.
No. 183, p. 78.
Subject: Ken Lum, Germaine Koh.
Author: Joan Richardson.
PDF
- "Artists Give New Meaning to BBs and Banal Signage", Georgia Straight, Georgia Straight, Toronto, ON, 24-31 May 2001.
Subject: Ken Lum, Germaine Koh.
Author: Robin Laurence.
PDF
- "Work and Words Go Up in Smoke", Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, 19 May 2001.
P. R8.
Author: Robin Laurence.
PDF
- "Signals - an Interview with Germaine Koh", Rhizome.org, Rhizome.org, New York, 30 Jan 2001.
Author: Mathew Kabatoff.
Read
- Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Les commenseaux : Quand l'art se fait circonstances / When Art Becomes Circumstance , Montreal, QC, 2001.
P. 156-165.
Author: Rosemary Heather with Luis Jacob, Sandy Plotnikoff, Adrian Blackwell, Germaine Koh, Lucy Pullen, Instant Coffee.
PDF
2000
- "Placecards", Mercer Union, brochure, Toronto, ON, 2000.
Subject: Chris Sollars, Katherine Harvey, Jennifer McMackon, Amy Wilson, Arthur Kleinjan.
Author: Stacey Lancaster.
Online version
Read
- "Smoke and Buttons", Canadian Forum, Canadian Forum, Toronto, ON, Mar 2000.
P. 29-31.
Author: Catherine Osborne.
PDF
- "Waste Management", Fuse, Fuse, Toronto, ON, 2000.
Vol. 22, no. 4, p. 49-50. Author: Dana Samuel.
Read
- "Germaine Koh", Centre international d'art contemporain, Tout le temps / Every Time: Biennale de Montréal 2000, Montreal, QC, 2000.
Artist entry. Author: Laura U Marks.
Read
1999
- "Pour une sculpture qui disparaît / For a Disappearing Sculpture", Espace, Espace, QC, Winter 1999-2000.
No. 50, p. 6-11. Author: Patrice Loubier.
PDF
- "8 for 2000", Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, 6 Nov 1999.
P. F1, F10. Author: Diana Nemiroff et al..
PDF
- "Spotlight: Germaine Koh", Canadian Art, Canadian Art, Toronto, ON, Spring 1999.
P. 34-8.
Author: Ihor Holubizky.
PDF
1997
- "Germaine Koh: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston", C Magazine, C Magazine, Toronto, ON, Nov 1997-Jan 1998.
No. 56.
Author: Petra Halkes.
PDF
- "Germaine Koh: getting personal", Art/Text, Art/Text, Sydney, AU, Nov 1997-Jan 1998.
No. 59, p. 50-1. Author: Jan Allen.
PDF
- "The Stubborn Grace of the Particular", Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Germaine Koh: Personal, Kingston, ON, 1997.
Author: Jan Allen.
PDF
- "Sightings of Germaine Koh", Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Germaine Koh: Personal, Kingston, ON, 1997.
Author: Wayne Baerwaldt.
PDF
Other Media:
2008
- unreleased, Force majeur, Vancouver, BC, 2008.
Video feature, 23:00 rough cut.
Author: Ian Verchere.
Video
2006
- Ottawa Art Gallery, Germaine Koh, Ottawa, ON, 26 Sep 2006.
Podcast.
Author: Emily Falvey.
Online podcast
Prizes:
2010
- Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation, VIVA Award, Vancouver, BC, 2010.
Author: Germaine Koh.
Website
Curatorial Activity:
2009
- Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Building Berlin, Kitchener, ON, 2009.
Group show of artists working in Berlin. Participants: Jesko Fezer, Axel Wieder, Patricia Reed, Pia Fuchs, Daniel Seiple, Ingo Gerken, Daniela Brahm, Thom Kubli, Lars Ramberg, Karin Sander, Rui Calçada Bastos, Nevin Aladag.
Curator: Germaine Koh.
Project page
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2007
- Contemporary Art Gallery and LIVE Performance Biennale, RSVP, Vancouver, BC, Oct 2007.
Series of dinner parties as everyday performance.
Participants: Tony Penikett, Tahmoh Penikett, JoannaTrail Blazer, Georges Joubert, Joanna Robinson, Maren Hancock, Sophie Dikeakos, Ian Verchere, Cynthia Verchere.
Curator: Germaine Koh.
Project page
PDF
2004
- Carleton University Art Gallery, Prototype: the Joe Friday Collection of Contemporary Art, Ottawa, ON, Fall 2004.
Participants: AA Bronson, NE Thing Co., Alex Morrison, Douglas Gordon, David Shrigley, Kelly Wood, Brian Jungen, Liam Gillick, Simon Starling, Lynne Cohen, Shirley Tse, Kirsten Pieroth, Elmgreen & Dragset, Euan Macdonald, Myfanwy McLeod, Ken Lum, Jonathan Monk[...].
Curator: Germaine Koh.
Project page
PDF
2002
- weewerk, Co-founder, Toronto, ON, launched 2002.
Curator: Germaine Koh & Phil Klygo.
Project page
2001
- Mercer Union, No Mercy: the Art-World Wrestling Federation Open Championships, Toronto, ON, 6 Apr 2001.
Performance event. Curator: Germaine Koh & Phil Klygo.
Project page
2000
- SAW Gallery, c/o la Ciudad, Ottawa, ON, 2000.
Exhibition of artists from Mexico City, travelling to Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga.
Participants: Galia Eibenschutz, Daniel Guzman, Jonathan Hernandez, Gabriel Kuri, Minerva Cuevas, Mejor Vida Corp., Yoshua Okon, Luis Felipe Ortega.
Curator: Germaine Koh.
Project page
PDF
1998
- National Gallery of Canada, Acting Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Ottawa, ON, 1998-99.
Curator: Germaine Koh.
Project page
- SAW Gallery, Chaos Theories, Ottawa, ON, 1998.
Participants: Anitra Hamilton, Adrienne Trent.
Curator: Germaine Koh.
1996
- SAW Gallery, Asides: asian artists speak, Ottawa, ON, May 1996.
Lecture and screening series.
Curator: Germaine Koh.
1994
- Ottawa Art Gallery, Practice Ground, Ottawa, ON, Sep-Oct 1994.
Participants: Ken Lum, Denyse Thomasos, Jean-Marie Delavalle, Adrian Gollner.
Curator: Germaine Koh & Daniel Sharp.
1993
- ad hoc gallery, Founder, Ottawa, ON, 1993-94.
Curator: Germaine Koh & Geoffrey Brown.
Project page
1992
- National Gallery of Canada, Curatorial Assistant, Ottawa, ON, 1992-98.
Curatorial Assistant for Photographs Collection (1992, 1993), for 20th Century Art (1994-1996), for Contemporary Art (1996-1998).
Curator: Germaine Koh.
Project page
Texts by Koh:
2013
- "League and the Elm Park Field House Artist Residency", Kerrisdale Playbook, Kerrisdale Playbook, Vancouver, 2013.
Author: Germaine Koh.
Link
2010
- "Josée Dubeau: in Outline", Axe Néo-7, Josée Dubeau, Gatineau, QC, upcoming 2010.
Catalogue essay.
Author: Germaine Koh.
2009
- "Building Berlin", Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Building Berlin, Kitchener, ON, 2009.
Subject: Jesko Fezer, Axel Wieder, Patricia Reed, Pia Fuchs, Daniel Seiple, Ingo Gerken, Daniela Brahm, Thom Kubli, Lars Ramberg, Karin Sander, Rui Calçada Bastos, Nevin Aladag.
Author: Germaine Koh.
Download PDF
Read
- "Checks and Balances", Art Lies, Art Lies , Houston, TX , Spring 2009.
No. 61, p. 22-23. Essay about sport. Subject: Terminal City Rollergirls.
Author: Germaine Koh.
Online version
PDF
2008
- "Talking to strangers, asking directions, acting out, and other civic duties", Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery, Territory, Vancouver, BC, 2008.
P. 15-18.
Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
2007
- "RSVP: Please Respond", Contemporary Art Gallery, poster with essay, Vancouver, BC, Oct 2007.
Subject: Tony Penikett, Tahmoh Penikett, JoannaTrail Blazer, Georges Joubert, Joanna Robinson, Maren Hancock, Sophie Dikeakos, Ian Verchere, Cynthia Verchere.
Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
2004
- Carleton University Art Gallery, Prototype: Contemporary Art from Joe Friday's Collection, Ottawa, ON, 2004.
Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
2003
- "Jin-me Yoon: Welcome Stranger Welcome Home", Vancouver Art Gallery, Home and Away, Vancouver, BC, 2003.
Artist entry in exhibition catalogue. Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
2002
- "Shinobu Akimoto: The House Rabbit Society Project Series / BACKYARD", YYZ Artists' Outlet, YYZine, Toronto, ON, Spring 2002.
Author: Germaine Koh.
Read
2001
- "Give aways: a partial account", MIX Magazine, MIX Magazine, Toronto, ON, Fall 2001.
Vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 24-29. Subject: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cliff Eyland, Kim Adams, Christy Thompson, Stephen Ellwood, Adbusters, Surasi Kusolwong, John Marriott, Ron Terada, Mejor Vida Corp., Minerva Cuevas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yoko Ono.
Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
- "Havana Biennial ", Frieze, Frieze, London, UK, Apr 2001.
No. 59, p. 106-7. Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
- "Private Thoughts / Public Moments", Fuse, Fuse, Toronto, ON, Apr 2001.
Vol. 23, no. 4, p. 43-44, review of AGO exhibition. Subject: Neena Arora, Asma Arshad Mahmood, Rchael KalpanaJames, Meera Sethi, Sutapa Biswas.
Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
- "Slipping in and away", Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Les commenseaux: Quand l'art se fait circonstances / When Art Becomes Circumstance, Montreal, QC, 2001.
P. 30-33, essay/artist's project.
Author: Germaine Koh.
PDF
2000
- "c/o la Ciudad", SAW Gallery, exhibition folder, Ottawa, ON, 2000.
Subject: Galia Eibenschutz, Daniel Guzmán, Jonathan Hernández, Gabriel Kuri, Mejor Vida Corp. (Minerva Cuevas), Yoshua Okón, Luis Felipe Ortega.
Author: Germaine Koh.
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1999
- "Stan Douglas", ETC Montréal, ETC Montréal, Montreal, QC, Sep-Dec 1999.
P. 54-57, review of VAG exhibition.
Author: Germaine Koh.
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- "Artists", National Gallery of Canada, Crossings, Ottawa, ON, 1998.
P. 85-185, artist entries in exhibition catalogue. Subject: Cai Guo-Qiang, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carlos Capelan, Jimmie Durham, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Ilya Kabakov, Kcho, Lani Maestro, Vong Phaophanit, Yinka Shonibare, Jana Sterbak, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Xu Bing, Jin-me Yoon.
Author: Germaine Koh.
- "Threshold", Parachute, Parachute, Montreal, QC, Jan-Mar 1999.
No. 93, p. 48-9, review of Power Plant exhibition. Subject: Ian Carr-Harris, Claude Leveque, Peter Kogler, Judith Schwarz, Ann Lislegaard, Mischa Kuball, Teresita Fernandez, Lyla Rye, Masato Nakamura, Louise Dompierre.
Author: Germaine Koh.
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1998
- "Chaos Theories", SAW Gallery, exhibition esssay, Ottawa, ON, 1998.
Subject: Anitra Hamilton, Adrienne Trent.
Author: Germaine Koh.
1997
- "Miyajima: Thousand Road", National Gallery of Canada, exhibition brochure, Ottawa, ON, 1997.
Subject: Tatsuo Miyajima.
Author: Germaine Koh.
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1996
- "Lynne Cohen", Contact Sheet , Contact Sheet, Syracuse, NY, 1996.
No. 89.
Author: Germaine Koh.
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1995
- "Geographies of Desire", C Magazine, C Magazine, Toronto, ON, 1995.
No. 46, review of Ottawa Art Gallery exhibition.
Author: Germaine Koh.
1993
- "Kirsten Mosher: Sandra Gering", Flash Art, Flash Art, New York, Jan-Feb 1993.
Vol. XXVI, no. 168, p. 92.
Author: Germaine Koh.
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Lecturing:
2012
- Vogue Theatre, Pecha Kucha Night Vancouver, Vancouver, 2012.
Author: Cause + Affect.
event archive
2011
- Vancouver Art Gallery, Annual Emerging Artist Lecture, Vancouver, BC, 2011.
Author: Germaine Koh.
2009
- Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Curator's talk, Kitchener, ON, 2009.
Author: Germaine Koh.
Video part 1
2008
- "Long Live Burnout!", Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario annual conference, , Ottawa, ON, 9 Nov 2008.
Keynote address. Author: Germaine Koh.
2007
- "SOCS 411 - Professional Practice, SCLP 206/306 - Sculpture Projects", Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Sessional lecturer, Vancouver, BC, Sep-Dec 2007.
Author: Germaine Koh.
- "Talking to strangers, asking directions, acting out, and other civic duties", Artspeak, Speakeasy: Territory, Vancouver, BC, 25 Jan 2007.
Other speakers: Am Johal, Thomas Kemple.
Author: Germaine Koh.
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- "SCLP 318 - Installation and Site-specific Art;", Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Sessional lecturer, Vancouver, BC, Jan-Apr 2007.
Author: Germaine Koh.
2003
- "Berlin in Dialogue with Canada - The Institutional Landscape", Art Forum Berlin, Moderator, Berlin, 3 Oct 2003.
Author: Wayne Baerwaldt, Daina Augaitis, Marie-Josée Lafortune, Gabriele Knapstein, Kitty Scott; moderators: Sabrina Van Der Ley & Germaine Koh.
- "Special Topics in Sculpture: Public Works", University of Guelph, Sessional lecturer, Guelph, ON, Winter 2003.
Author: Germaine Koh.
1997
- "The Autonomous Object", University of Ottawa, Part-time Professor, Visual Arts Department, Ottawa, ON, 1997.
Author: Germaine Koh.
1995
- Universities Art Association of Canada, Downsizing: minimalism in the 90s Organizer and panel chair.
Author: Germaine Koh.
1993
- "Visual Workshop ", University of Ottawa, Part-time Professor, Visual Arts Department, Ottawa, ON, 1993-94.
Author: Germaine Koh.
Education:
1993
- Hunter College of City University of New York, Master of Fine Arts, New York, 1991-93.
1990
- University of Ottawa, Bachelor of Arts (Theory and History of Art), Ottawa, ON, 1985-90.
1989
- University of Ottawa, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Studio), Ottawa, ON, 1985-89.
