
Having studied literature and law in Munich, Caro Jost moved to New York in early 2000, where she opened her studio and project space KUNSTGESEHEN on former gallery premises and began a daily photo-transmission on public screens and the internet lasting several years about her life in New York. While studying at the NYU and the Art Students League, she developed her own artistic technique: STREETPRINTS, works on canvas. Using a special process, she takes real imprints of street and footpath reliefs and in this way captures traces of the past. She had her first exhibitions in New York at, among other, the Goethe Institute, der German American Chamber of Commerce, Alp Galleries and in Washington at the American Institute of Contemporary German Culture.
Since the year 2000, she has made STREETPRINTS in more than 80 cities, including Hong Kong and London, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Helsinki, Moskau, Shanghai, Toronto oder Havanna.
Her literary studies background, especially her grounded knowledge of investigative journalism and forensics, plus her study of fine art constitute the points of departure for her basic artistic theme: the search for traces, the documentation and representation of time, space and events. Since 2000 and parallel to the long-term STREETPRINTS project, she has also been preoccupied with individual series of works and public art projects. In 2014 she made her first documentary film about the former studios of the Abstract Expressionists in New York. Since 2015 she has been involved in her current image sequence called INVOICE PAINTINGS, using archive material from the studios or estates of important artist personalities.
Her works are the subject of film screenings; she has had solo and group exhibitions, in particular at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Mark Rothko Art Center, Latvia, AmDoc, Palm Spring, Anthology Film Archive, New York, K20, Düsseldorf. She is included in the collections of the Lenbachhaus Munich, the Jumex Collection Mexico, and others.
First collaboration with the Walter Storms Galerie on a catalogue project, followed by a museum presentation in Veszprém in 2008.
Caro Jost, born 1965 in Munich, works mainly in Munich and New York.
Literature and Law, LMU, Munich
Art Students League, New York (among other, with Larry Poons)
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Prof. Jean-Marc Bustamante/Prof. Florian Pumhösl)
Grant – Pollock-Krasner Foundation
EXHIBITIONS
2024
STREETPRINTS 2000-2024, Armory Show New York, Focus Section (s)
PUT YOURSELF IN THE SHOES OF SOMEONE ELSE, Ravnikar Gallery, Ljubljana (s)
FINAL TRACES of the BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, Bauhaus Dessau (s)
2023
LEARNING ANNEX, Window Projects, Tiblisi (s)
MEMBERS´ OPEN, Provincetown Artist Assocation and Museum, Provincetown
QUARTET, Bluerider Art, Shanghai
HOMELAND UNIVERSE, Bluerider Art, London
SEDIMENT, Alan Charlton, Caro Jost, Dan Walsh, Ian Davenport, Karin Sander, Lesly Foxcroft, Nunzio, SLEWE GALLERY, Amsterdam
FINAL TRACES, Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt
2022
SEE WHAT WAS NEXT, CAS, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU, Munich (s)
ALL IN ONE, Britta Rettberg Galerie, Munich (s)
DREI FARBEN: BLAU WEISS ROT, curated by Gregor Hildebrandt and Caro Jost
John Bock, Dadamaino, Edith Dekyndt, Ulrich Erben, Shannon Finley, Andi Fischer, Rupprecht Geiger, Raimund Girke, Gotthard Graubner, Terry Haggerty, Gregor Hildebrandt, Caro Jost, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), Imi Knoebel, Peter Kogler, Stanislav Kolíbal, Alicja Kwade, Agnes Martin, Gerold Miller, Maurizio Nannucci, Anselm Reyle, Michael Riedel, Robert Ryman, Michael Sailstorfer, Karin Sander, Thomas Scheibitz, Erik Schmidt, Sean Scully, Turi Simeti, Günther Uecker, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
FOUND IN THE COLLECTION
Mark Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Lettland
BLANC DE BLANCS, curated by Gregor Hildebrandt and Sonia González, Villa Schöningen, Berlin
TIME 2 TIME, Karin Sander || Caro Jost, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2021
SCHNEE FÄLLT HINTERM BERGE, curated by Gregor Hildebrandt
Lynda Benglis, John Bock, Amélie Esterházy, Bernard Frize, Raimund Girke, Gregor Hildebrandt, Leiko Ikemura, Caro Jost, Alicja Kwade, Olaf Metzel, Manfred Pernice, Anselm Reyle, Robert Ryman, Michael Sailstorfer, Karin Sander, Erik Schmidt, Jorinde Voigt, AVLSKARL GALLERY, Kopenhagen
TEMPO? Reflexionen über Geschwindigkeiten, Neue Galerie Museum Dachau
9/11 UND DIE KUGEL KÖNIG, Koenig Museum, Landshut
2020
FINAL TRACES, Mark Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia (s)
SOLID FICTION, Davis Birks, Tim Freiwald, Caro Jost, Imi Knoebel, Márton Nemes, Anselm Reyle, Cordy Ryman, Karin Sander, Kunstverein Emsdetten
ALGORITHM AND APPROPRIATION, Pascal Dombis, Caro Jost, Bluerider Art Gallery, Taipei
2019
WALK THE TALK, Galerie Rettberg, Munich (s)
PEACE is POWER-YOKO ONO, for Water Event, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
THE ABSTRACT CABINET, Aldo Chaparro, Caro Jost, Katja Strunz, Gerold Miller, Blair Thurman Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florenz
PRIVATE VIEW, Alan Charlton, Callum Innes, Caro Jost, Dan Walsh
Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam
GUESTS of GABRIELE MÜNTER , Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky, Caro Jost
Münter-Museum, Murnau, 2019 – 2023
2018
A ROAD TO RED, YELLOW AND BLUE, BlueriderArt, Taipeh (s)
SIXTH SENSE, curated by Caro Jost, Alice Aycock, Monica Bonvicini, Dadamaino, Lesley Foxcroft, Karin Sander,
Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
2017
INVOICE PAINTINGS GÜNTHER UECKER, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich (s)
TRACES, Adam Colton, Caro Jost, Alan Johnston, Stanislav Kolibal,
Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
THE ARCHIVE BENEFIT, Anthology Film Archive, New York
2016
WHITE STREET, Galerie 401contemporary, Berlin (s)
INVOICE PAINTINGS Rupprecht Geiger, (Jahresgaben), Kunstverein, Munich
SUMMER SHOW, The Watermill Center, Water Mill/New York
2015
FINAL TRACES, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt (s)
CONCRETE JUNGLE, curated by Caro Jost. Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
SUMMER SHOW, The Watermill Center, Water Mill/New York
2014
STREETPRINTS, Gallery 401contemporary, Berlin (s)
ONE NIGHT AT SCHUMANN`S, Stadtmuseum, Munich (s)
CHUCKA CHUCKA, Kunsthalle, Memmingen
2013
CROSSTOWN REFLECTIONS, Galerie Oberbayern, Munich (s)
KONSTRUIERTES GRAU, Josef Albers, Alan Charlton, Caro Jost, James Howell, Susan York
Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
ARTIST COMES FIRST, curated by Jean-Marc Bustamante
Festival International d´Art, Toulouse
2012
20STUCK, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
BLACK-WHITE, Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden
2011
STREETVIEWS, Residenz, Munich (s)
2010
TENTH STREET, NEW YORK, Residenz, Munich (s)
VIA STREETPRINTS, VDA, Berlin
NEW WORKS, Alp Galleries, New York
2009
STOP-OVER / CROSS-OVER, Residenz, Munich (s)
2008
UTCANYOMATOK / STREETPRINTS, Museum Vass, Veszprém/Ungarn (s)
STREETPRINTS, Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden (s)
2007
STREETPRINTS, Galerie Florian Walch, Munich (s)
OBSESSION DURCH TECHNIK, Galerie artMbassy, Berlin
2006
CARPE MOMENTUM, Alp Galleries, Frankfurt (s)
2005 & 2004
STREETPRINTS, ALP Galleries, New York (s)
2003
STREETPRINTS, Shanghai Art Salon, Shanghai (s)
STREETPRINTS, Galerie Charles Schumann, Munich
2002
STREETPRINTS, Galerie Charles Schumann, Munich (s)
STREETPRINTS, ALP Galleries, New York (s)
2001
ART IN THE BOX, Goethe Institut, New York (s)
STREETPRINTS, Alp Galleries, New York (s)
STREETPRINTS, American Institute of Contemporary German Culture, Washington (s)
STREETPRINTS, German American Chamber of Commerce, New York (s)
LITTLE RED SCHOOL, I-20 Gallery, New York
2000
NEW WORKS, GACC, German American Chamber of Commerce, New York (s)
KUNST GESEHEN, VOID, New York
GERMAN PAVILION, EXPO 2000, Hannover
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
KiCo Collection, Munich, Bonn
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Jumex Collection, Mexico
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville
Mark Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, LT
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Stadtmuseum, Munich
ZERO Foundation, Düsseldorf
Vass Collection, Budapest
Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Wemhöner Collection, Herford/Berlin
Sammlung Kienbaum, Köln
VDA, Verband Deutscher Automobilindustrie, Berlin
Anthology Film Archive, New York
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, USA
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Archive, Venice
The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York
Smithsonian Institution – Archives of American Art, USA
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, USA
Bibliothek, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
RISD Museum, Providence, USA
MoMA Library Collection, New York