APOLLO

Apollo Wind Spinner
2020-2022

steel, bronze, and two motors
548 9/16 x 360 x 102 11/16 inches
1393.3 x 914.4 x 260.8 cm

Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

Apollo Kithara
2019-2022

polychromed PMMA and animatronic snake
92 x 43 5/8 x 30 1/3 inches
233.6 x 110.7 x 77 cm

Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

  • Hydra, Greece, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Jeff Koons: Apollo, June 21 – October 31, 2022

    Frankfurt, Germany, Liebieghaus Skulpturen Sammlung, Machine Room of the Gods, March 8 – September 10, 2023

  • "DESTE Foundation Jeff Koons at the Slaughterhouse," Voice of Hydra, May 2022, p. 6

    Maria Panagiotou, "The Sacred Temple of Jeff Koons in Hydra," The Liberal, June 3, 2022, p. 15

    Efi Falida, "'The work is completed when the viewer sees it,'" Ta Nea, June 21, 2022, p. 49

    Ioanna Kleftogianni , "Is it Jeff Koons' best work or is it not even his "Apollo" in Hydra?," Popaganda (Greece), June 21, 2022 https://m.popaganda.gr/art/ine-to-kalitero-ergo-tou-jeff-koons-i-den-ine-kan-ergo-o-apollo-tou-stin-idra/

    Konstantinos Tanias, "Jeff Koons 'brought' the god Apollo to Hydra," Glow (Greece), June 21, 2022, pp. 4

    Ted Loos, "Loving Art to the Moon and Back," The New York Times, June 23, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/arts/jeff-koons-art-moon.html

    Giannis Konstantinidis, "Jeff Koons in Hydra: Response from a breathtaking report," LiFO (Greece), June 23, 2022 (color ill., Hydra installation view) https://www.lifo.gr/culture/eikastika/tzef-koyns-stin-udra-antapokrisi-apo-mia-ekthesi-poy-kobei-tin-anasa

    Maro Vasiliadou, "Apollo's Touch Gilds Hydra," Kathimerini, June 23, 2022, pp. 1, 4

    Anna Wichmann, "Artist Jeff Koons Displays Artwork on Greek Island of Hydra," Greek Reporter, June 29, 2022 (color ill.) https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/29/artist-jeff-koons-displays-artwork-on-greek-island-of-hydra/

    "Jeff Koons – Apollo: Exhibition at DESTE Foundation Hydra," Culture Now, June 30, 2022, p. 2

    Annie Armstrong, "Wet Paint in the Wild: Writer Jannelle Zara Takes Us to the Greek Island Hydra for the Deste Founation's Jeff Koons Show," Artnet News, July 1, 2022 (color ill.) https://news.artnet.com/news-pro/wet-paint-in-the-wild-writer-janelle-zara-takes-us-to-the-greek-island-hydra-for-the-deste-foundations-jeff-koons-show-2140278

    Eleni Varvitsioti, "Koons installation lights up Greek island for his collector friend Dakis Joannou," Financial Times, July 1, 2022 (color ill.) https://www.ft.com/content/7ab66dc0-69b1-447b-90be-24393937ce8d

    Juliana Neira, "Jeff Koons creates a temple for Apollo at the DESTE foundation in Greece," Designboom, July 1, 2022 https://www.designboom.com/art/jeff-koons-apollo-deste-foundation-greece-07-01-2022/

    Linda Yablonsky, "Sun Worshippers," Artforum, July 3, 2022 (color ill.) https://www.artforum.com/diary/linda-yablonsky-around-athens-and-hydra-88785

    Isabella Prisco, "Sull'isola di Hydra, il dialogo metafisico tra contemporaneo e antico di Jeff Koons," Elle Decor, July 13, 2022

    Dimitris Trikas, "Or Apollo by Jeff Koons in the Slaughterhouse in Hydra," Dawn, July 17, 2022, p. 1

    "Experience the great summer of art in the Greek islands," Andro Greece, July 18, 2022, pp. 2

    Silke Hohmann, "The sun was witness," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), July 28, 2022 https://www.faz.net/aktuell/stil/mode-design/mit-jeff-koons-auf-hydra-18173796.html

    "Jeff Koons presents Apollo in Hydra," Neos Kosmos (Australia), August 2, 2022 (color ill., Hydra installation view) https://neoskosmos.com/en/2022/08/02/life/jeff-koons-presents-apollo-in-hydra/

    Andrea Goffo, "Deste 2022 Vol II: Jeff Koons' Apollo in Hydra," A Magazine Curated By, August 3, 2022, p. 3

    "In Pictures: See Jeff Koons's Luxurious Art Offerings to Apollo, God of the Sun, on the Greek Island of Hydra," Artnet News, August 5, 2022 (color ill.)

    "Jeff Koons and Antiquity as the Living Ready-Made of Today," Culture Now, August 8, 2022, p. 5

    Natalie Martin, "Greek God Apollo Shines Over Hydra," Greek City Times, August 12, 2022 (color ill., Hydra installation)

    "The best exhibitions of summer 2022 and beyond: Europe," Christie's, August 15, 2022, p. 2

    "Apollo in the slaughterhouse," Detektor (Germany), September 1, 2022 (color ill.)

    Evi Kallini, "In the mind of Jeff Koons: A conversation with the artistic advisor of the DESTE Foundation, George Tzirtzilakis," Glow (Greece), September 9, 2022

    Bill Powers, "From Hydra to the Moon," MUSE Magazine, September 16, 2022 (color ill. p. 265; color ill. p. 274, installation view)

    Judith Benhamou, "Le temple de Jeff Koons bientôt détruit, Les Echos, September 28, 2022 (color ill. Hydra installation view) 

    Silke Hohmann, "Koons auf Hydra," Monopol Magazine, September 2022, p. 42

    Gerald, "The Rising of Apollo," ELLE Decoration, October 2022 (color ill. Hydra installation)

    Heinz-Norbert Jocks, "Hydra Jeff Koons Apollon," Kunstforum, 284 (October 2022), pp. 284, 285 (color ill. Hydra installation)

    Catherine Taft, "Catherine Taft on James Welling," Artforum, November 1, 2022 https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202209/james-welling-89517

    Milosh Harajda, "Novodoby Boh Slnka Nad Hydrou," Feminity, 2022, p. 141

    Vasilissa Conway, "It Is Never Enough: Deste 2022," BBeyond Magazine, 2022, p. 72

    Tiphaine A. Besnard and Fabien Bievre Perrin, Qui es-tu Apollon? De Juliobona á al Culture Pop, exh. cat. (Normandy: Juliobona, 2023), pp. 107, 111 (color ill. pp. 107, 111)

    Heinz-Norbert Jocks, "Jeff Koons: Der Mythos Des Apollon," Kunstforum, January-February 2023 (color ill.) https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/jeff-koons-6/

    Jasmin Schülke, "Das Liebighaus und der Maschinenraum der Götter," (German) Journal Frankfurt, March 7, 2023 (color ill. by Eftychia Vlachou)  https://www.journal-frankfurt.de/journal_news/Kultur-9/Ausstellung-Das-Liebighaus-und-der-Maschinenraum-der-Goetter-40471.html

    Yvonne Koch, "Liebieghaus begibt sich zurück in die Zukunft," Hessenschau, March 9, 2023 (color ill. Liebieghaus installation) https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/ausstellung-maschinenraum-der-goetter-im-liebieghaus-zurueck-in-die-zukunft-v1,maschinenraum-der-goetter-100.html

    Christoph Schütte, "Jeff Koons besucht das Städel und das Liebieghaus," Frankfurter Allgemeine, March 10, 2023, pp. 33 (color ill. installation view p. 33)

    Thomas Stillbauer, "Es philosophiert und glänzt so schön," Frankfurter Rundschau, March 10, 2023 (color ill. by Lisa Berins)

    Thomas Behnke, "Die Wurzeln der Technik im Mythos," Die Rheinpfalz, March 22, 2023 (color ill.) https://www.rheinpfalz.de/leo-freizeit-news_artikel,-die-wurzeln-der-technik-im-mythos-_arid,5483593.html

    Panos Papadolias, "Contemporary art 'sees' Apollo in Hydra and not [in his] city of Sparta," Lakonistas, June 18, 2023, pp. 1-4 (color ill. Hydra installation view)

    Dario Pappalardo, "Jeff Koons: “Il ritorno degli Dei/Return of the Gods,” Robinson Copertina no. 345, La Repubblica (Italy), July 15, 2023 (color ill. p. 4, installation view, details) https://www.repubblica.it/robinson/2023/07/16/news/jeff_koons_il_mio_sole_risplende_nei_cieli_di_apollo-407889311/

    Paul Chan, "Is Jeff Koons America's Most Religious Artist?" Frieze, November 1, 2023 https://www.frieze.com/article/paul-chan-column-239

    Deste 33+, ed. Karen Marta, text by Massimiliano Gioni (Athens: Deste, 2023), pp. 376 (color ill. p. 364, Hydra installation, partial view; color ill. pp. 366-67, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. p. 368, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. p. 369, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. p. 370, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. pp. 372-73, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. pp. 374-75, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. p. 377, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. pp. 378-79, Hydra installation, detail)

    Jeff Koons: Apollo, exh. cat., Massimiliano Gioni and Karen Marta (Athens: Deste Foundation, 2023), pp. 10-11, 23, 31, 58-59, 56-57, 60, 63, 99, 101, 106, 132, 142 (color ill. cover; color ill. p. 2; color ill. pp. 8-9, color ill. p. 54, side view; color ill. pp. 58-59; color ill. pp. 64-65 installation view, front view)

    Machine Room of the Gods: How Our Future Was Invented, ed. Vinzenz Brinkmann, exh. cat. (Berlin/Munich: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung and Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2023), pp. 11, 23, 248, 261, 263, 264, 283 (color ill. pp. 248, 283, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation), (color ill. p. 263, detail)

    "Qui es-tu Apollon? De L'Antiquité à la culture Pop," ed. Tiphaine A. Besnard, Fabien Bievre-Perrin, Elise Cousin, Jonas Paretias (Oissel-Sur-Seine: Editions Octopus, 2023) (color ill. p. 113)

Gazing Ball Tripod
2020-2022

mirror-polished stainless steel and patinated bronze
58 1/2 x 27 x 25 7/16 inches
148.6 x 68.6 x 64.5 cm

Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

Nike Sneakers (N110 D/MS/X)
2020-2022

polychromed bronze
13 1/8 x 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches
33.3 x 23.5 x 29.8 cm

Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

Plato's Solid Forms Wind Spinners
2020-2022

mirror polished stainless steel with transparent color coating and acrylic
12-14 inches diameter, dimensions vary, set of five

Edition of 15 plus 5 APs

  • Hydra, Greece, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Jeff Koons: Apollo, June 21 – October 31, 2022

    Frankfurt, Germany, Liebieghaus Skulpturen Sammlung, Machine Room of the Gods, March 8 – September 10, 2023

  • Juliana Neira, "Jeff Koons creates a temple for Apollo at the DESTE foundation in Greece," Designboom, July 1, 2022 https://www.designboom.com/art/jeff-koons-apollo-deste-foundation-greece-07-01-2022/

    Natalie Martin, "Greek God Apollo Shines Over Hydra," Greek City Times, August 12, 2022 (color ill., Hydra installation view) https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/08/12/greek-god-apollo-shines-over-hydra/

    Bill Powers, "From Hydra to the Moon," MUSE Magazine, September 16, 2022, (color ill. p. 275) https://musemagazine.it/articles/jeff-koons-en/

    Heinz-Norbert Jocks, "Jeff Koons: Der Mythos Des Apollon," Kunstforum, January-February 2023  (color ill. p. 187) https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/jeff-koons-6/

    Deste 33+, ed. Karen Marta, text by Massimiliano Gioni (Athens: Deste, 2023) (color ill. p. 384, Hydra installation), (color ill. p. 385, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. p. 386, Hydra installation, detail; color ill. p. 387, Hydra installation)

    Jeff Koons: Apollo, exh. cat., Massimiliano Gioni and Karen Marta (Athens: Deste Foundation, 2023) (color ill., p. 81 installation view; color ill. pp. 84-87, detail; color ill. pp. 82-83, installation view)

    Machine Room of the Gods: How Our Future Was Invented, ed. by Vinzenz Brinkmann, exh. cat. (Frankfurt: Liebieghaus Skulpturen Sammlung), pp. 263, 283 (color ill. p. 263; color ill. p. 283, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung installation)