Jutta Koether
Artist
Biography
Jutta Koether (born 1958 in Cologne) is a German painter, musician and critic based in New York and Berlin. She began her career in Cologne’s art and music scenes of the early 1980s, writing for the magazine Spex, and has since used painting as a critical tool, exploring its conditions of production and the politics of colour, with a particular focus on red. She was Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg from 2010 to 2024 and received the Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting in 2025; a first major survey was organised by Museum Brandhorst and Mudam Luxembourg in 2018.