2010 master student class Lothar Baumgarten, University of the Arts Berlin (UdK)
2002-2010 Study of Fine Arts at the UdK Berlin
2006 Exchange semester at the Département des Arts Plastiques et Sciences de l’Art Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence
2001-2002 Studies at the Academie Beeldende Kunsten, Maastricht, Netherlands
2023 NEUSTARTplus Scholarship
2022 Neustart Kultur Scholarship Programme of Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
2021 NEUSTART KULTUR of the Kulturwerk Foundation of VG-Bild-Kunst
2021-23 A.T.E.N.A Résidence d’ Artistes Femmes Européennes, Sète, France
2020 Scholarship Programme of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2017-19 Catalog sponsorship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
2016 Finalist of the Karl Schmidt Rottluff Scholarship (shortlist)
2014 Residency at meetfactory Prague (June-Sep.)
2013 DAAD project grant (Jan.-June) for New York City.
2013 Studio Fellowship Triangle Arts Association, New York City
2012 Working fellowship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany
2011 Goldrausch female artist project art IT, Berlin
2010 Master Student Award of the President of the UdK Berlin
2010 Prize of the Schulz-Stübner-Foundation for Painting
2019 ex plica – Kathrin Köster, Argobooks, Berlin 2019
ISBN: 978-3-942700-97-9
Shortlist of the Stiftung Buchkunst, category The Most Beautiful German Books
2014 when a boat reaches a certain speed a wave becomes as hard as a wall of marble, exhibition booklet Kostka Gallery meetfactory Prague
2011 Platzhalter – Kathrin Köster, exhibition cat. Fast and Furious – Gold Rush 2011
ISBN: 978-3-941318-1
2010 Catalog on the occasion of the Prize for Painting of the Schulz-Stübner Foundation
2010 Hexagon, catalog on the occasion of the Meisterschülerpreis of the Udk Berlin