Albert Coers (*1975 in Lauingen) studied literature and art history in Pisa and Munich as well as art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, with Heribert Jakob Sturm and Albert Hien. Study and work stays took him to Carrara, Genoa and Alexandria, among others. He received his Ph.D from the Karlsruhe University of Design with a thesis on the exhibition catalog as an artistic medium. The focus of the artistic work is on installations with found objects and language-related material, artist publications, curatorial projects such as “Inside the Box” (2013), “PAUSE (prelude)” (2018), as well as works in public spaces such as “Memorial to the Mann family”.
His project “Who is Albert?” dealt with researching persons with his first name in (literary) texts, thus also with regard to the meaning of names and one’s own identity. Texts brought along came from the books in the Künstlerdorf and from suggestions from fellows. Passages in which the name appears were copied, cut out, recombined, installed in the studio and in the corridor and edited as an artist’s book. In addition, Albert realized works with existing furniture and found objects from the library of the Künstlerdorf in the studio and in the exhibition hall, as part of the exhibition „TT“ with Carsten Lisecki (catalog Icon Verlag 2021). Spatial installations were created, which also included sound (UMLAUTE Ä, Ö, Ü, Æ, Å, Ø), photo series, videos and the artist book “Schöppinger Schläger” (Salon Verlag, 2021), with photos of found table tennis bats and text contributions by fellows (Rudi Beutinger, Albert Coers, Sandra Rosas, Crauss, Ksenya Kumm, Carsten Lisecki, Cornelia Hülmbauer and Asja Schubert).