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SANDER COERS (b. 1997) is a Rotterdam-based artist working with photography. His work balances on the borders of documentary and fiction, portraying real people, places and their stories within melancholic and romanticized worlds. With the coming-of-age theme being recurrent throughout his work, he reflects on stories of love, friendship, growing up and self-acceptance, collected from his friends and peers. His visual language is strongly inspired by nostalgic echoes of his youth in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, which he evokes visually through colourful stills, portraits and landscapes while making use of a tender and intimate gaze.
Sander 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 various private collections.
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Project Artist with Galerie Ron Mandos
Represented by Underpromise Agency
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Josilda da Conceição Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Rabo Portrait Prize, Depot Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Unseen, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Wild Summer of Art, BRUTUS, Rotterdam, NL
2022 The Gallery Club, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Het Creatieve Huis x De Bijenkorf, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Palm* Photo Prize, 1014 Gallery, London, UK
2022 This Naked Incident, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Amuse, Galerie Wilms, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Best of Graduates 2021, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Contour Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2020 Noorderlicht Futurama, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, NL
2019 Gallery Untitled, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Beyond Dada en De Stijl Part II, Museum Dr8888, Drachten, NL
2017 New Dutch Photography Talent 2018, art’otel, Amsterdam, NL
COLLECTIONS
Rabobank
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Reyn van der Lugt Collection
Laurent Germain Collection
Various Private Collections
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
i-D / Elle NL / Vogue NL / HERO / NRC / Fisheye /
Die Zeit / Booooooom / Het Parool / Paper Journal Mag
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
2022 Rabo Portrait Prize Talent - Shortlist
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 Rabo 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
SELECTED CLIENTS
Sony Music / Die Zeit / Woolrich / Daniëlle Cathari / The New Originals / ...,staat / Iris van Herpen / Jan Jansen