Amsterdam based artist Joost Koster works by combining video, performance, 
audio and drawing. His work revolves around what it means to live in
contemporary society, reflecting on the digital technologies that shape
our daily reality. The way we think is shaped by the tools at our disposal. 
Therefore, Koster tries to create new ways of relating to our digital tools
(screens, Zoom, phone cameras) by stretching the boundaries from within 
these devices. His research dives into the gap between the hard edges of 
the screen and the soft edges of the body.


CV

Education
2021-2022 Dance Intensive, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
2017-2020 Bachelor of Arts and Design, Audiovisual - Moving Image, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2019      SNDO Intensive Course, Academie voor Theater en Dans, Amsterdam
2015-2017 Propedeuse Fine Arts, HKU, Utrecht

Residencies
2023 Group Residency with Forschung Aktuell at SD Factory, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2021 Artwell residency, Amsterdam
         Dooresidency, Zaandam

Selected Shows
Solo
2022 A Shrouded Song, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam

Group
2023 A Clean Slate, performance event, iii, The Hague Über Beziehungen, group show, Im Raum, Vienna
        (Ware)House Warming, performance event, Door Open Space, Amsterdam
2022 Big Other Bar, performance event, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
        Wasteland, group show, The Grey Space, The Hague
        Look at the Mesh We Made, performance festival, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
        Bits ’n Pieces, performance livestream, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
2021 stART, group show, Factor IJ, Amsterdam Unity|Duality|Trinity, group show, De School, Amsterdam
        Carousel, performance program, Veem House for performance, Amsterdam
        Hunger & Focus, group show, Artwell residency, Amsterdam
        Door Open Studio’s, group show, De Dood, Zaandam
        There’s Never Been a Winter So Long the Spring Didn’t Come, group show, Laurel Project Space, Amsterdam
2020 By Appointment Only; Feed My Quarantine 2: Still, online exhibition
        Stampa talkshow, online performance, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
        Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, Amsterdam

Commisioned Work
2023 Tracing Maps, video installation at Douanelab Amsterdam

Work As Performer
2023 A Spatial Dilemma, by Anna Chwiałkowska, Neun Kelche, Berlin
2022 Forschung Aktuell, by Anna Chwiałkowska, Tanzfabrik, Berlin
        ALIEN BODY, by Danilo Andrés, Tanzfabrik Buehne, Berlin
2021 The High Visitresse, by Caz Egelie, Centrale, Brussels
        The Gallerist, by Caz Egelie, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2020 A Boring Day In Hell, short film by Ayla Spaans
        She's Been In the Bizz, by Caz Egelie, CAMPO arts centre, Gent
        Marni Men’s FW 20/21, choreography by Michele Rizzo, Men’s Fashion Week, Milan
2019 The Gallerist, by Caz Egelie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Teaching
2022 Series of 6 movement classes for the Student Support Group, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Other relevant activities
2020-present Soft.shirts, Embroidery fashion design with Anke Vromen
2023 Filming and editing it’s my pleasure, a performance by Maria Elena Seidinari

2022 Creating and editing visuals for DJ set by Fatima Ferrari during Theaterfestival Boulevard, Den Bosch