Jeff Koons has collaborated with Squarespace to revamp his website, jeffkoons.com, to showcase over four decades of his work online.
I’ve always imagined a place where it all exists together
Jeff Koons
This is the first time that Jeff Koons’ complete works have been available to view in one place. The site serves as a chronological and archival representation of his illustrious career while also democratizing access for anyone to view his work online. The website’s design reflects Koons’ ethos of connection and accessibility, blending everyday images and objects to invite viewers to interpret and enjoy the art in their own way.
I’ve enjoyed my collaboration with Squarespace designing a website that brings all my works to date together,
said Jeff Koons.
I was able to create with Squarespace a site that communicates visually, emotionally, and intellectually the way I see the world. This custom website design called Reflect will give the user the same power and dynamism to create their own visual story through the use of this template.
Koons’ site inspired a new custom website template, Reflect, which is now available to all Squarespace customers to use. Reflect is built on boundary-pushing design structure and functionality needed to house a modern portfolio. The new template offers a unique starting point for creatives and artists alike to showcase their work expressively. Reflect also leans on conventional viewing methods like gridded text, galleries and accordion blocks for artworks, which allows the art to take centre stage without distraction.
Squarespace’s award-winning Creative team, in collaboration with Jeff Koons, produced a short film, Inflate, to accompany the Collection. The team also created a separate short film (See below) showcasing the creative process behind building Koons’ website. It was directed and produced in-house and shot at Jeff Koons’ studio in New York City.
As one of the most influential visual artists of our time, Jeff’s work has inspired both our team and a global audience for decades,
said David Lee, Chief Creative Officer.
Built on 20 years of design excellence, Squarespace shares Jeff’s ideology in democratizing access to design and art. His meticulous approach and impactful body of work are unmatched, and we hope this Collection inspires other artists and doers to showcase their portfolios and businesses online with Squarespace.
The website design is available in six languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
You can access Reflect, here
You can also find more information on the latest Squarespace Collection here
About the artist
Jeff Koons is one of the most prominent artists working today. He is known for challenging the limitations of fabrication while transforming everyday images and objects into works of art that engage the viewer in a dialogue with the time in which we live and our historical past. For four decades, Koons has created works that explore themes of self-acceptance and transcendence.
Jeff Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1955. He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1976.
Koons lives and works in New York City. Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, Koons’s work has been shown in galleries, museums, and cultural institutions worldwide. Koons’s work is in numerous collections, including The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California; HirshhornMuseum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; NationalGallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work was the subject of a major exhibition organized by the Whitney museum of American Art, Jeff Koons: A Retrospective(June 27-October 19, 2014), which then traveled to the Centre Pompidou Paris and the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Recent exhibitions include Palazzo Strozzi in Florence; Jeff Koons: Lost in AmericaatQatar Museums in Doha; and Jeff Koons: Apolloat the Slaughterhouse, a DESTEFoundation Project Space, in Hydra, Greece. Koons is widely known for his bold paintings and sculptures, including Rabbit, MichaelJackson and Bubbles, Puppy, and Balloon Dog. The smooth, mirror-finished surfaces of his iconic stainless steel sculptures reflect and affirm viewers and their environments. A dialogue with the readymade is evident in his complex paintings that often employ bright, saturated color, communicating the artist’s interest in art history, the biological, and acceptance. Koons earned renown for his public works, such as the monumental floralsculpturesPuppyandSplit-Rocker.Jeff Koons has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his cultural achievements. Notably, President Jacques Chirac promoted Koons from Chevalier toOfficier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur for his ongoing strengthening ofrelations between France and the United States; and in 2013 Koons was honored with the U.S. Department of State’s Medal of the Arts for his outstanding commitment to the art in Embassies Program and international cultural exchange. In 2017, Koons became the first Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind BrainBehavior Institute and, also, became an Honorary Member of University of Oxford’sEdgar Wind Society for Outstanding Contribution for Visual Culture. Koons has been a board member of The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC)since2002 and co-founded the Koons Family International Law and Policy Institute with ICMEC for the purpose of combating global issues of child abduction and exploitation and to protect the worlds children.
