— 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. A recent development is the inclusion of textiles as carriers of images. 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. His work has been exhibited internationally at instutitions such as Foam (NL), Preus Museum (NO), Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation (DE), Het Depot Boijmans van Beuningen (NL), Miyota Museum of Photography (JP) and written about in publications like The Guardian, Vogue, Aperture, and i-D. He was named a “Rising Star of 2022” by Dutch newspaper NRC and was 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