2024 Adviser and Curator of the Public Programme accompanying the retrospective of Boris Mikhailov's Ukrainian Diary (1965-2019), with a Musical Dialogue by pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi and singer Maryana Golovchenko; an in-depth talk 'Culture as the Mainstay for Ukrainian Identity' with Tatiana Kochubinska, Michiel Driebergen, Alex Blanco and Hanna Hrabarska - moderated by Willa Stoutenbeek; with the ‘Teen Art Club’ by Nicole Katenkari, curator of Vataha Foundation and, a musical performance by Ukrainian a capella singing group KORALI, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague
2024 Europa Nacht - ‘From Maidan to the Dam’, hosted by Vataha Foundation and Paradiso, Amsterdam
2024 Adviser and Curator of ‘The Hague: Freedom for Ukraine’ charity evening and auction of fine arts & design, with Vataha Foundation and Zeilen van Vrijheid Foundation, The Hague
2024 curator of ‘Forever and a Day’, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam

2023 (g) ‘Home Made. Create, Produce, Live’, CID Site du Grand-Hornu, Belgium
2023 (g) ‘SCHOOL. Verliefd, verveeld, verslapen’, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague
2023 (g) ‘Whispers and Shouts’ FOTODOK, 12 photobooks about Ukraine, central library Neude & TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

2021 (s) ‘Onder Vier Ogen’ tunnels Onderuit and Centrum of the ‘Amstelveenlijn’; a mixed media artwork in public space. www.ondervierogen.org, Vervoerregio Amsterdam

2020 (s) ‘Past Perfect Continuous - view on Crimea #1’, 
Mina Gallery.Café, Amsterdam
2020 (g) ‘Anastasiia, She Folds Her Memories Like A Parachute’ curated by Iris Sikking,  Lumix Festival for Young Visual Journalism, Hannover
2020 (g) ‘Capturing Corona’ a commission and exhibition by Stroom / Haags Historisch Museum / Haags Gemeentearchief, The Hague

2019 (g) De best verzorgde boeken 2018 / The best Dutch book designs 2018 exhibition in The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2018 (s) Book launch; Foam Editions with curator Kim Knoppers and Maryana Golovchenko 'Anastasiia, She folds her memories like a parachute’,  Foam Museum, Amsterdam

2017 (s) ‘Special Docker’ for Docking Station.today; artist in residence program Vondelpark, Amsterdam
2017 (s) ‘De Torenkamer’ and ‘Opium’ Radio4; artist in residence program 
‘Anastasiia, She Folds Her Memories Like A Parachute’, Vondel CS, Vondelpark Amsterdam
2017 (g) ‘Mulberry Tree Route in the Didube District of Tbilisi’ in collaboration with Tbilisi Silk Museum and Onno Dirker Tbilisi Silk Museum, Tbilisi

2016 (s) Performance ‘4x13 - Between Heaven and Earth’, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood #2, Vleeshal, Middelburg

2015 (g) 'Aggregatzustand / State of Aggregation' in collaboration with Onno Dirker, Künstlerhaus Dortmund
2015 TodaysArt Festival on Sea - performance 'A Tempo Hydro' with Onno Dirker, The Hague
2015 (g) ‘Masala de Luxe Part III’ with Uwe Siemens and Onno Dirker, Color Generator, Bochum

2014 (s) ‘De Opkamer’ a commission by Platform57, Escamp The Hague
2014 (g) ‘Utopians & Creators of Worlds’ with ‘The Documentation of One Day’ in collaboration with Onno Dirker, Freies Kunst Territorium / Kunstverein Bochum, Künstlerhaus Dortmund

2013 (g) TodaysArt Festival exhibition 19th Floor ‘Interior' and 'BZK1 en BZK2' in collaboration with Onno Dirker and Collective Works, The Hague

2010 (g) RA-Gallery, KievFotoCom Festival Kyiv, Ukraine

2007 (g) LOS Photography Collective with Het IJzeren Gordijn and Margriet V., FotoFestival Naarden
2007 (g) ‘Bouw in Beeld’, Nai / Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

2006 (g) Steenbergen Stipendium, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam

Books

2022 ‘Witness in Stone | Getuige in Steen’
The Royal Tropical Institute, a building as colonial legacy

2020 ‘Just a few seconds’; about the art collection of The Hague University of Applied Sciences

2019 ‘Tbilisi - It’s Complicated’; a guidebook composed of artistic accounts that critically reflect on recent urban and social changes in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, initiated by GeoAIR and published by Onomatopee (137) ISBN: 978-94-93148-10-9

2019 'Een gebouw dat kunst ademt / A building that radiates art'
The Academic Medical Center AMC Art Catalog, Amsterdam

2018 ‘Anastasiia, She Folds Her Memories Like A Parachute’
published by The Eriskay Connection ISBN: 978-94-92051-27-1

Awards & Recognition

Urbanautica Institute Awards 2019
ISBN: 978-88-32108-06-4

Nominated for ‘Overall Best Photobook’ with Viviane Sassen and Henk Wildschut; ‘De Nederlandse Fotoboekenprijs 2019’, Fotokroniek Special, Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam

De best verzorgde boeken / The best Dutch book designs, 2018
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

FOTODOK Book Club #14, Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, 2018

Projects of Christian van der Kooy are made possible by Fonds Anna Cornelis, Mondriaan Fund, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Stichting Droom en Daad, Stroom Den Haag, Steenbergen Stipendium and Voordekunst.