（Germany, b. 1965)
慕尼黑大學法律學院及慕尼黑藝術學院畢業，現居住及創作於慕尼黑。每個藝術家都有自己喜歡的藝術家，然而將這種鍾愛在自己的作品中表露無遺的，就是來自德國慕尼黑的藝術家 Caro Jost，長期追溯以慕尼黑為大本營的抽象表現主義為主題創作。她的創作關於時間、空間及事件，另一成名系列Streetprints，造訪全球超過70個地點，將在街頭採集的痕跡烙印在畫布上。作品曾在紐約MoMA、紐約 Chelsea Art Museum、威尼斯 Guggenheim Collection等機構展出，並獲MoMA Library collection (The archives of MoMA, NY) 、Chelsea Art Museum (NY) 、Museum of the City of Munich等多間國際重要藝術機構永久收藏。
不使用畫筆或畫架，也不將攝影幻覺轉為現實，而從街道上尋找主題，Jost耗時數年完成的知名紀錄片作品Final traces of abstract expressionists，她追溯時代，像偵探般追蹤著前輩抽象表現主義藝術家的創作軌跡，造訪工作室並會面熟識藝術家的親屬及友人，走過藝術家取材的街道、公寓、會議場所、酒吧及展覽空間，所有的素材，關於逝去的藝術家，然而藝術仍在發展。抽象表現主義不以描繪具象為目標，而是透過點、線、面、色彩、形體、構圖來傳達各種情緒，沒有具象畫面，但紐約這個城市卻處處殘留著他們的足跡。當Hans Hoffman、Jackson Pollock、Mark Rothko等藝術家著正裝，在鏡頭前留下合照，在紐約各地的建築空間中留下他們的精神意志，在厚厚的剪貼紀錄本中，地上的痕跡烙印在畫布上，最後Caro Jost 站在Barnett Newman曾經駐足的地點，慢慢退後卻變成了自己作品中的人物，是一首穿越過去與現在時間交織的詩歌。
NOTES W.K. June 30, 1911(envelope and stamp), epoxy resin, acrylic, digital silkscreen on shaped canvas, 2018, 66 x 59 x15 cm, Wassily Kandinsky 郵戳 1911年親筆寫給當時女友Gabriele Münter 書信信封，原版由Gabriele Münter 基金會授權，Carol Jost 再挪用創作
Caro Jost 也蒐集藝術家在某個特定時間點創作時使用的檔案，像是筆記手稿、 購買顏料的收據副本，挪用於畫布上再創作出屬於她的藝術，像是 Invoice painting B.N. February 8, 1956，Sketch G.M. March 15, 1922 (detail red, yellow and blue)，Notes W.K. 1909 blue 等作品系列。這些材料購買的副本紀錄了現代重要藝術品的近期起源，Jost將它們化作創作的一部分。如康丁斯基居住慕尼黑時期的作品是以色彩為主導的浪漫概念，強調從物質主義中甦醒，讓觀看者被一陣陣厚彩的浪潮包圍；Jost則是一點一點地在模糊、不清晰的文本中，含蓄地分析這些色彩組成，重現The Blue Rider浪潮的浪漫色彩靈魂在作品上。
藝術上的Appropriation挪用，是適當地使用既有存在的物件及圖像，借用它、 採用它做出意義上的轉化，挪用的開端及翹楚是Marcel Duchamp使用readymades 現成物的概念，僅透過選擇工業產品及展示的過程來傳達藝術意義。自此之後，達達主義(Dada) Robert Rauschenberg 等藝術家都採用了非傳統的材料納入自己的作品。進到1990年代後的數位時代，不斷蛻變與進化的科技更讓藝術挪用的方式更加擴展，各式各樣的訊息、媒體都可以成為作品的一部分。
藝術層層疊疊不斷建構在過去的歷史上，Caro Jost 從藝術史中探尋過往藝術家 的故事，挪用他們最原始的文本、親自抵達原始的時空場域，輸入素材、轉化、重新編碼，直接用新的形式輸出，她向卓越的藝術成就致敬，並將精神性融入到自己的藝術作品中。使用「行動」即「藝術」的直接方式，表達一種自我發現的世界觀。一件件的作品像是無法被消去的副本，Jost將時間、痕跡、行動具體化，挪用，卻帶入一份愛意，存在於連續時空的美學物件裡。
Education
Munich Academy of Fine Arts
Munich Literature and Law, Ludwig-Maximillians University
Solo Exhibitions
2022 SEE WHAT WAS NEXT, CAS-Center for Advanced Studies, Munich
2022 ALL IN ONE, Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich
2021 TEMPO! Reflexionen über Geschwindigkeit*, Neue Galerie, Museum Dachau, Dachau
2020 FINAL TRACES, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils
2020 CHARACTER-IMAGE ART, Art Granary, Beijing
2020 ALGORITHM AND APPROPRIATION, Bluerider Art Gallery, Taipei
2020 GABRIELE MÜNTER AND HER GUESTS, Museum Münter Haus, Murnau
2019 Guests of Gabriele Münter, Münter Museum, Murnau, Germany
2019 Walk the Talk, Rettberg Gallery, Munich, Germany
2018 A road to red, yellow and blue, Bluerider ART, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Invoice Paintings Günther Uecker, Walter Storms Gallery, Munich, Germany
2017 TRACES, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017 Invoice Paintings Barnett Newman, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany
2016 WHITE STREET, Gallery 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2015 FINAL TRACES, Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, Germany
2014 STREETPRINTS, Gallery 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2014 One night at Schumann´s, Museum of the City of Munich, Munich, Germany
2013 Film im K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 Crosstown Reflections, Gallery Oberbayern, Munich, Germany
2011 Streetviews, Royal Residence, Munich, Germany
2010 Tenth Street, New York, Royal Residence, Munich, Germany
2009 stop-over / cross-over, Royal Residence, Munich, Germany
2008 Utcanyomatok/Streetprints, Museum Laszlo Vass, Veszprém, Hungary
2008 Streetprints, Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden, Germany
2007 Streetprints, Galerie Florian Walch, Munich, Germany
2006 Carpe Momentum, Alp Galleries, Frankfurt, Germany
2006 ongoing Mail Art & Streetprinting project: Taipei, Copenhagen, Abu Dhabi, Turin, Luxembourg, Bilbao, Munich, Vienna, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Oslo, Toronto, Havana, Rome, Jerusalem, Muscat, Kassel, Milan, Lisbon, Venice, Montauk, Paris, Bayreuth, New York II, Madrid, Istanbul, Moscow, Prague, Hong Kong, Veszprém, Miami, Sevilla, Berlin, New York, London
2003 Streetprints, Shanghai Art Salon, Shanghai, China
2002 Streetprints, Galerie Charles Schumann, Munich, Germany
2001 Art in the Box on Fifth Avenue, Goethe Institut, New York, USA
2001 Streetprints, Alp Galleries, New York, USA
2001 Open Studio, 515 Greenwich Street, New York, USA
2001 Streetprints, American Institute of Contemporary German Culture,Washington, USA
2000 Kunst gesehen, VOID, New York, USA
2000 New Works, GACC, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2023 Homeland Universe, Bluerider ART London Mayfair, UK
2023 Abstraction, Bluerider ART, Taipe
2023 Wild Grass, Bluerider ART, Taipei, Shanghai
2023 40 YEAR, groupshow, Kunstverein Emsdetten,Germany
2023 SEDIMENT, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2023 FINAL TRACES, film + work presentation. Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt
2022 All in one, Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich
2022 DREI FARBEN: BLUE-WHITE-RED, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
2021 SCHNEE FÄLLT HINTERM BERGE, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
2021 9/11 und die Kugel Koenig, KOENIG MUSEUM, Landshut
2021 COMPRESSED TIME*, Maxime Ballesteros, Martin Boyce, Paul Hutchinson, Caro Jost, Wilhelm Klotzek, Caroline Kryzecki, Alicja Kwade, Bernhard Martin, Olaf Metzel, Gerold Miller, Anselm Reyle, curated by Dr. Friederike Nymphius, Berlin, FS.Art, Berlin
2021 WE MELT BEFORE IT FORMS*, curated by Joseph Constable, Associate Curator Serpentine Galleries, London, Rettberg Galerie, Munich
2021 MADE IN GERMANY*, Caro Jost, Tim Freiwald, Angela Glajcar, Peter Krauskopf, Dirk Salz, et al. Gallery Bluerider Art, Taipeh
2021 FOR FREE*, curated by Daniel Man, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2021 GABRIELE MÜNTER AND HER GUESTS*, Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky, Caro Jost, Museum Münter Haus, Murnau
2020 SOLID FICTION, Tim Freiwald, Caro Jost, Imi Knoebel, Marton Nemes, Cordy Ryman, Anselm Reyle, Karin Sander, Kunstverein Emsdetten
2019 Yoko Ono-Water Event, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
2019 The Abstract Cabinet, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Firenze, Italy
2019 PRIVATE VIEW, Adam Colton, Alan Charlton, Callum Innes, Caro Jost, Dan Walsh…Gallery Slewe at Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam
2018 Sixth Sense, Walter Storms Gallery, Munich, Germany
2018 Monumenta, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Final Traces of Abstract Expressionists, NYC Independant Film Festival, New York, USA
2017 VOLUME 3, Gallery Britta von Rettberg, Munich, Germany
2017 The Archive Benefit, Anthology Film Archive, New York, USA
2017 Challery, Novomatic Forum, Vienna
2017 Final Traces, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, USA
2016 Invoice Paintings Rupprecht Geiger, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
2015 CONCRETE JUNGLE, Walter Storms Gallery, Munich, Germany
2015 SUMMER SHOW, The Watermill Center, Water Mill/New York, USA
2015 Final Traces of Abstract Expressionists, American Documentary, Palm Springs, USA
2014 Final Traces of Abstract Expressionists, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2014 ChuckaChucka, Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
2014 Final Traces of Abstract Expressionists, New Film Makers, New York, USA
2013 Konstruiertes Grau, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2013 Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
2013 Artist Comes First, Festival International d´Art, Toulouse, France
2012 20Stuck, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2012 Black-White, Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden, Germany
2011 New Works, Alp Galleries, Frankfurt, Germany
2011 SprachRaumWelten, DWS, Frankfurt, Germany
2010 Via Streetprints, VDA, Berlin, Germany
2010 New Works, Alp Galleries, New York, USA
2008 Group Show, Walter Bischoff Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2007 Obsession durch Technik, Galerie artMbassy, Berlin, Germany
2007 Die Ü berquerung, Galerie Haus Rhode VW, Wolfsburg, Germany
2006-2005-2004 Streetprints / New Works, Alp Galleries, New York, USA
2003 Streetprints, Galerie Charles Schumann, Munich, Germany
2001 Little Red School, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
2001 ART hits ACADEME, 5th Avenue, New York, USA
2000 German Pavilion, EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany
Selected Collections and Archives
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Jumex Collection, Mexico
Colby Museum of Art, Maine
Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Museum of the City of Munich
ZERO Foundation, Düsseldorf
Langen Foundation, Hombroich
Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils,LT
Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Wemhöner Collection, Herford/Berlin
Ottmann Collection, Munich
Vass Collection, Budapest
ICCollection, Munich/Athens
VDA, Verband Deutscher Automobilindustrie, Berlin
KG Allgemeine Leasing, Grünwald
Collection Lenz, Berlin
Collection Villa Rhode, Wolfsburg
Collection Hopson, New York/USA
Collection Ketterer, Munich
Collection Alp/Grosse, Frankfurt
Collection PAM AG, Ypps/Austria
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Archive, Venice
The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York
Smithsonian Institution-Archives of American Art, Washington
MoMA Library Collection, New York
南德意志報(Süddeutsche Zeitung)- 南德意志報(Süddeutsche Zeitung)
- Münchner Merkur (慕尼黑信使報)
- Journal München
- Living & Design
- La Vie
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