— Biography
Sander Coers (b. 1997) is a visual artist based in Rotterdam, working primarily with photography. His work looks at how photographs shape our understanding of both past and present. By deconstructing and recontextualising memories through archival photos, analogue techniques, and AI-generated images, he explores how stories are passed down across generations. This process invites viewers to reflect on how we remember, how we forget, and how those patterns shape our future.
He often works with physical materials like wood, textiles, and ceramics to give these memories a more tactile, physical form. Alongside this, he uses digital tools like AI and photo manipulation to play with the line between real and imagined. By combining these methods, he highlights how easily memory can shift, blur, or break apart. His work often touches on themes like masculinity, silence, and nostalgia, especially within the context of family life and inherited experience.
Since graduating in 2021 from Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Sander has published three books: Come Home, This Naked Incident, and Blue Mood (Al Mar). His work has been shown in museums and galleries in places like Tokyo, London, Milan, Amsterdam, and Berlin, and featured in The Guardian, Vogue, Die Zeit, and i-D. He was named a “Rising Star of 2022” by dutch newspaper NRC, selected for Foam Talent in 2024, and nominated for the CO Berlin Talent Award in 2025. His work is held in public and private collections across the Netherlands and internationally.
— Contact Details
studio@sandercoers.com
+31 6 36 51 71 15
@sandercoers
Gallery
The Netherlands — Galerie Caroline O’Breen
United Kingdom — Open Doors Gallery
Switzerland — Window Fourteen
Agency
Global — Companion