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 100 cities, including Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Helsinki, Moskau, Shanghai, Toronto, Taipeh or Havanna.
Caro Jost´s 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, followed by documentaries about the female artists of this generation and the former Black Mountain College in North Carolina. 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 Museum, Latvia, Anthology Film Archive, New York, K20, Düsseldorf.
Caro Jost’s works are included in major public and private collections, among them the Jumex Collection (Mexico), Mark Rothko Museum (Daugavpils), ZERO Foundation (Düsseldorf), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich), KiCo Collection (Bonn/Munich), Colby Museum of Art (Maine), and the MoMA Library Collection (New York).
First collaboration with the Walter Storms Galerie on a catalogue project, followed by a museum presentation in Veszprém in 2008.
education
Painting and Printmaking (diploma), Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Prof. Jean-Marc Bustamante / Prof. Florian Pumhösl)
Drawing, Art Students League, New York City (among others with Larry Poons)
Literature and law (state exams), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York
selected public collections
Jumex Collection, Mexiko-Stadt
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
Stadtmuseum München, München
Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Lettland
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
ZERO Foundation, Düsseldorf
Langen Foundation, Hombroich
Wemhöner Collection, Berlin
Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville
MoMA Library Collection, New York
Guggenheim Archives, Venedig
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venedig
Barnett Newman Foundation, New York
Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, Washington
selected solo exhibitions
2024
Streetprints 2000–2024, Armory Show, Focus Section, New York City
Put Yourself in the Shoes of Someone Else, Ravnikar Gallery, Ljubljana
Final Traces of the Black Mountain College, Bauhaus, Dessau
2023
Learning Annex, Window Project, Tiflis
2022
See What Was Next, Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), LMU, Munich
All in One, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
2020
Final Traces, Mark Rothko Museum, Daugavpils
2019
Walk the Talk, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
2018
A Road to Red, Yellow and Blue, Bluerider Art, Taipeh
2016
White Street, Galerie 401contemporary, Berlin
2015
Final Traces, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
2014
Streetprints, Galerie 401contemporary, Berlin
One Night at Schumann’s, Stadtmuseum, Munich
2013
Crosstown Reflections, Galerie Oberbayern, Munich
2011
Streetviews, Residenz, Munich
2010
Tenth Street, New York, Residenz, Munich
2008
Utcanyomatok / Streetprints, Museum Vass, Veszprém
selected group exhibitions
2025
Walking in my Shoes, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
Places in the In-Between, RSCL Space, Tunisia
2023
Quartet, Bluerider Art, Shanghai
Homeland Universe, Bluerider Art, London
Sediment, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
Members’ Open, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown
2022
Found in the Collection, Mark Rothko Museum, Daugavpils
Blanc de Blancs, Villa Schöningen, Berlin
Time 2 Time, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2021
Schnee fällt hinterm Berge, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
Tempo? Reflexionen über Geschwindigkeiten, Neue Galerie, Museum Dachau
9/11 und die Kugel König, Koenig Museum, Landshut
2020
Solid Fiction, Kunstverein Emsdetten
Algorithm and Appropriation, Bluerider Art Gallery, Taipeh
2019
Peace is Power – Yoko Ono, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
The Abstract Cabinet, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence
Private View, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam
2013
Artist Comes First, Festival International d’Art, Toulouse