— Biography
Sander Coers (b. 1997, The Netherlands) is a Rotterdam-based artist working with photography. His practice examines how memory is constructed, inherited, and reshaped, positioning the image not as evidence but as a site of negotiation between reality and fiction.
Working from personal experience, family archives, and cultural references, Coers approaches memory as something unstable, formed as much by imagination as by lived events. His early work focuses on masculinity and intimacy, staging young men in cinematic environments that blur documentation with projection. In recent projects, his focus shifts toward intergenerational narratives, addressing absence, migration, and the gaps that structure familial histories.
Expanding beyond the photographic surface, Coers translates images into objects through processes such as UV printing on wood and ceramic. This material shift explores the tactile dimension of memory. Something that can be carried, fragmented, and reassembled. The integration of artificial intelligence further complicates the image, mirroring the ways memory is constructed, distorted, and collectively understood.
Since graduating in 2021 from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Coers has published three books: Come Home, This Naked Incident, and Blue Mood (Al Mar). His work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries in Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Milan, Amsterdam, and Berlin, and featured in publications like The Guardian, Vogue, Die Zeit, and i-D. He was named a “Rising Star of 2022” by Dutch newspaper NRC and selected for Foam Talent 2024. His work is held in public and private collections in 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