“Koster’s work is not just about preserving the past but about giving it a new place in our contemporary world, inviting us to interact with it in fresh, unexpected ways.”
Nynke Koster (NL, 1986) is an artist based in The Hague. She trained in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Inspired by Victor Horta and Art Nouveau, she makes works that blur the line between design and art. She casts architectural details from historic buildings, such as Baroque ceilings, Jugendstil corners and Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”, and recreates them in unexpected materials like colourful rubber. Bringing these elements down to earth and into contact with everyday life, she sets different eras in dialogue and invites us to engage with history in a new, more intimate way.