Of Spirits and Empty SpacesStarting in the mid 1990s, Joachim Koester developed an oeuvre that could be described as a complex web in which journalistic and historical research fuses with personal and fictive narratives. He belongs to an artists_ generation whose practices are based on what Hal Foster once described as the _archival approach._ Balancing the thin line between documentary and fiction, Koester_s films, photos, and installations reexamine and activate forgotten