Sandra Köstler is a visual artist working with photography, video and installation.

Having started as a documentary photographer in a rather traditional way, Sandra is now more engaged in artistic processes that expand the photographic image towards installation, sculpture, and layered forms. Her research-based practice explores spatial environments from a social, emotional, and ecological perspective. Recent works revolve around the (trans)formation of ecosystems and our perceptions and fictions of "nature".

In her work, Sandra draws on a wide range of influences from her background in urban art, media theory, and research. She received her PhD from Bielefeld University and is involved in various interdisciplinary activities that combine artistic practice with research and education. Currently, she runs The Space Lab, a mobile lab for collaborative explorations of spatial environments.

STUDIO SANDRA KÖSTLER

R3, 13 / 68161 Mannheim

contact (at) sandrakoestler.de

IG: @sandra.koestler

GALERIE MONICA RUPPERT

Bleichstr. 48 / 60313 Frankfurt am Main

info[at]galeriemonicaruppert.de

https://www.galeriemonicaruppert.de/

EXHIBITIONS

2025 The Visual Grammar of Wilderness, Gallery 80a, Taipei (solo show)

2024 Two Decks: Networx, Künstlerhaus Dortmund (group show)

2024 Dear2050: Entangled Forests, Zeughausareal Uster / Forum de l’Hôtel de Ville Lausanne / Chrämerhuus Langenthal (group shows)

2024 Keep your eyes peeled, AFF Galerie, Berlin (group show)

2023 Dear2050: Entangled Forests, Kornhausforum Bern (group show)

2023 PEP New Talents 2022, 254Forest, Brussels (group show)

2023 Vor Ort. Fotografie im Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck, Kunstverein Mannheim (group show)

2022 Where do you think you’re going? On Spaces & Identities, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin (group show)

2022 Heimspiel 4, PORT25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Mannheim (group show)

2022 The urban between reality and utopia, Tiradentes Photo Festival (screening)

2022 The urban between reality and utopia, Rotterdam Photo Festival (screening)

2022 Intermezzo, Galerie Monica Ruppert, Frankfurt am Main (group show)

2021 Perceiving Landscape(s), IAPT:Photobook:2021, Korai Project Space, Nicosia (with The Dérive Series)

2021 Urbanität in Bearbeitung, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (group show)

2020 The Dérive Series, TEN Gallery, Mannheim (solo show)

2018 原創基地節, Songshan Cultural Park, Taipei (with Postsadness Taipei book)

2018 Photobook Exhibition at Athens Photo Festival (with Postsadness Taipei book)

2017 HOCHSTRASSE, Stadtmuseum Ludwigshafen (two-person show)

2016 I call it a Place, OFF//FOTO Festival (solo show)

2016 Postsadness Taipei, RAW Gallery, Mannheim (solo show)

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Sandra Köstler is a visual artist working with photography, video and installation.

Having started as a documentary photographer in a rather traditional way, Sandra is now more engaged in artistic processes which expand the photographic image towards installation, sculpture and layered forms. Her research-based practice explores spatial environments from a social, emotional and ecological perspective. Recent works revolve around the (trans)formation of ecosystems and our perceptions and fictions of "nature".

In her work, Sandra draws on a wide range of influences from her background in urban art, media theory and research. She received her PhD from Bielefeld University and is involved in various interdisciplinary activities that combine artistic practice with research and education. Currently, she runs The Space Lab, a mobile lab for collaborative explorations of spatial environments.

EXHIBITIONS

2025 Gallery80a, Taipei (solo show)