— Biography
Sander Coers (b. 1997) is an artist based in the Netherlands working with photography. His practice looks at the ways personal and collective histories are shaped by memory, imagination, and inheritance. Drawing from family archives, found photographs, and artificial intelligence, he uses photography as a place where fact and fiction can exist alongside one another. Rather than seeing photographs simply as records of the past, Coers is interested in what happens when images are incomplete, altered, or missing altogether. His work often starts from these gaps, using reconstruction and speculation to imagine moments that were never photographed.
Recurring themes in his work include masculinity, intimacy, family dynamics and migration, as well as the things that remain unspoken across generations. Archival material sits alongside contemporary photographs and AI-generated images, making it difficult to distinguish between something remembered, documented, or imagined. Coers takes photography beyond the image itself, working with UV-printed wood, ceramics, textiles, and installation. These materials allow photographs to become physical objects and connect them to ideas of preservation, deterioration, and the ways stories change as they are passed on.
Since graduating from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam in 2021, Coers has published three books and exhibited at institutions including Foam (NL), Kunstmuseum Den Haag (NL), Fotografiska (SE), Preus Museum (NO), Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation (DE), Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (NL), and Miyota Museum of Photography (JP). His work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Vogue, Aperture, and i-D. In 2022, he was named a Rising Star by Dutch newspaper NRC, and in 2024 he was selected for Foam Talent. His work is held in public and private collections in the Netherlands and internationally.
— Contact
studio@sandercoers.com
@sandercoers
Gallery
Galerie Caroline O’Breen (Amsterdam, NL)
Window Fourteen (Geneva, CH)