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Sander Coers (b. 1997) is a Rotterdam-based artist working with photography. Recreating and rearranging memories, he reflects on his own stories as well as those of his friends and peers, often other young men. Through a tender gaze, he seeks to visualise and establish new perceptions of masculinity within melancholic, romantic and dreamlike worlds, comprising elements from nostalgic echoes of his youth.
He received his BA with honours of Photography from Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam in 2021. His graduation project Come Home was selected for Best of Graduates 2021, nominated for the Rabobank Portrait Prize and published (inter)nationally. He won the RM Photo Award before being selected as Rising Star of 2022 by Dutch newspaper NRC and nominated for the Palm* Photo Prize in London, UK. Coers’ work has been acquired by the collections of the Rabobank, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and several leading private collections.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Unseen, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
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Wild Summer of Art, BRUTUS, Rotterdam, NL The Gallery Club, Amsterdam, NL
Het Creatieve Huis x De Bijenkorf, Rotterdam, NL Palm* Photo Prize, 1014 Gallery, London, UK
This Naked Incident, MAMA, Rotterdam, NL Amuse, Galerie Wilms, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, NL
Best of Graduates 2021, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
Contour Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Noorderlicht Futurama, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, NL
Gallery Untitled, Rotterdam, NL
Beyond Dada en De Stijl Part II, Museum Dr8888, Drachten, NL New Dutch Photography Talent 2018, art’otel, Amsterdam, NL
COLLECTIONS
2022 Rabobank, NL
2022 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
i-D / Elle NL / Vogue NL / HERO / NRC / Fisheye /
Die Zeit / Booooooom / Het Parool / Paper Journal Mag
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
2022 Rabobank Portrait Prize Talent 2022 SYB Kunstprijs - Longlist
2022 OD Photo Award - Longlist 2022 Palm* Photo Prize - Shortlist 2022 Athens Photo Festival - Shortlist 2022 Rijzende Sterren, NRC
2021 RM Photo Award - Won
2021 Best of Graduates, Galerie Ron Mandos 2021 Rabobank Portrait Prize Talent - Longlist 2018 New Dutch Photography Talent
TALKS / LECTURES
2022 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL 2018 Garage Café #5, Garage Rotterdam, NL
BOOKS
2021 Come Home, self-published
2021 This Naked Incident, with: JapSam Books, MAMA, & WdKA