| | | |  | | | Paul Kooiker
Untitled (for Office Magazine), 2020
Inkjet-Print, 77,3 x 58 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen
© Paul Kooiker | | | | | | Fashion | | | | 3 December 2021 – 6 February 2022 | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Paul Kooiker
Untitled (for Beauty Papers), 2021
Inkjet-Print, 77,3 x 58 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen
© Paul Kooiker | | | | | | With his current photographs, Paul Kooiker (*1964, Rotterdam) moves at the interface between fashion and art. Using smartphones, apps and digital post-processing, he creates a new, idiosyncratic and internationally acclaimed fashion photography.
Paul Kooiker often exaggerates the shape of bodies to the extreme. Using artificial body extensions, wigs, and extravagant clothing as well as dramatic lighting, shadow, and fragmentation, he creates a unique visual language whose surreal undertone often recalls icons of photography and art history. | | | | | |  | | | Paul Kooiker
Untitled (for Vogue Ukraine), 2019
Inkjet-Print, 77,3 x 58 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen
© Paul Kooiker | | | | | | Social themes such as diversity, body positivity, or the fetishization of bodies, which the fashion world takes up, also translate directly into Kooiker's image production. Between the queer and avant-garde creations of the designers and the nostalgically anarchic look of his photographs, an effective power typical of Kooiker emerges.
It is the first time that Kooiker’s fashion photographs will be on display in an institutional context. He publishes extensive photo spreads in magazines such as Vogue Italia, Dazed & Confused and AnOther. Kooiker realizes shoots for well-known brands such as Givenchy, Rick Owens and Viktor & Rolf.
The approximately 30 newly acquired photographic works enter into dialogue with works from the Photographic Collection's holdings, including Cindy Sherman, Grete Stern and Juergen Teller. | | | | | |  | | | Paul Kooiker
Untitled (for Numéro Berlin), 2017
Inkjet-Print, 77,3 x 58 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen
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