Ellen Kooi, Haarlem – Wies, 2016
Exhibition from 4th to 26th july 2014
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from march 14th to april 26th 2014
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from january 25th to february 2014
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from november 24th 2007 to january 12th 2008
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from april 4th to may 13th 2006
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Exhibition from may 22nd to july 12th 2003
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Born in 1962 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
She lives and works in Netherlands
Ellen Kooi takes staged photographs. From 1981 until 1986 she attended the Minerva Academy in Groningen. In the period after the academy, she is mainly occupied with ad hoc projects and theatre photography.
These series show clearly that in the city-landscapes by Kooi the central idea always evolves around people. People in motion, their outline, their body language, and their relation to their environment: all these elements make up the theme throughout her work.
The work of photographer Jeff Wall is a source of inspiration to her, but also that of choreographers the likes of Bausch or De Keersemaker.
Pietje Tegenbosch, 2002
Ellen Kooi
Rafael Doctor Roncero, Menchu Gutiérrez, Catherine Somzé, Octavio Zaya
2008
ISBN : 978-84-96917-24-8
The point of departure for the photographs of Ellen Kooi (b. Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 1962) is the landscape, which she transforms and uses as the backdrop for ambiguous, inexplicable events. The seemingly natural appearance of her images, which always have the spontaneity of a snapshot, belies an intricate production process involving preparatory drawings, models, lighting design and careful staging, not unlike the methods used by old Baroque masters or modern film directors. This blend of nature and artifice lends Ellen Kooi’s photographs an unsettling quality and irresistible visual appeal.
Ellen Kooi
Martine Schneider,- Speller and Jhim Lamoree
2005
ISBN : 2-919925 72-5
29 colour reproductions
Edition Beaumont Public
Ellen Kooi
Juan Curto Vivas
2015
ISBN : 978-84-94-1906-9-8
Ellen Kooi
Bernard Marcelis, Frits Gierstberg
2010
ISBN : 978-2-35046-198-4
Ellen Kooi
2005
ISBN: 90-5994-090-3
2005: “Along the old Rhine with Ellen Kooi”,
assignment publication/ booklet, published by
Focus Locus, Utrecht
Edition Uitgeverij Aprillis
