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Joachim Koester, The Other Side of the Sky, 2015, 16mm film, 4 min. 00 sec., film still. Courtesy the artist and Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Denmark.
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Joachim Koester, Tarantism, 2007, 16 mm film, black and white, silent, 6 min 30 sec, film still. Courtesy the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels.
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Joachim Koester, Tarantism, 2007, 16 mm film, black and white, silent, 6 min 30 sec, film still. Courtesy the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels.
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Joachim Koester, The Other Side of the Sky, 2015, 16mm film, 4 min. 00 sec., film still. Courtesy the artist and Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Denmark.
Exhibition
Joachim Koester: The Other Side of the Sky
5 Feb 2016 – 8 May 2016
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Rendezvous Margate Kent
- Margate
England - CT9 1HG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Direct buses to Margate from all surrounding towns in East Kent. Visit Kent County Council's Public Transport website to find your most direct bus route. There you can also download a map of Kent and all available bus routes in the county.
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Koester plays with the art of storytelling through 16mm film, sound and photography, taking you on a journey to different times, places and states of consciousness.
About
Central to the exhibition and inspired by our namesake JMW Turner is a new film commission, The Other Side of the Sky. Premiered at Turner Contemporary and created especially for the exhibition, Koester’s experiential film makes the connection between Turner’s seaward journey, for which he claimed to have been bound to a ship’s mast, and later trips: internal journeys and chemical ventures of the 1960s. See a group of Turner watercolours shown alongside Koester’s film, which offers a new perspective on the painter’s later, watery landscapes.
Discover Koester’s works from the past 10 years, many of which have never been shown in the UK before. Embark on a psychological journey into Department of Abandoned Futures; watch dancers quiver as Koester reinterprets the cultural myth of Tarantism, the dancing cure practised by victims of tarantula bites to release venom from their bodies; delve into the artist’s obsessive documentation of ‘the alien’ in his Praying Mantis film and accompanying photographs.
“Just strolling through the spaces might be enough for a visitor to get a sense of what is going on. I call this ‘inhaling the show’ – perceiving it through the body. There is also another, conceptual landscape to be discovered...”
– Joachim Koester
Transport yourself to another state of mind, another space, to #theotherside.
Joachim Koester: The Other Side of the Sky is organised in collaboration with Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Portugal and curated by Filipa Oliveira and Turner Contemporary.
Photography without flash of the Joachim Koester artworks is permitted during the exhibition.
