A black and white dog wears a white chef’s jacket while standing at a stove. A person’s hand emerges from the sleeve to make an “ok” gesture, while another hand stirs a large metal pot.

It’s time for Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek’s tail-wagging annual calendar reveal

Dogs answering important business calls and doing the ironing. It’s not a fever dream, just the artist’s 2022 calendar: doggystyle.

Words: Dalia Al-Dujaili
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Date: 17 November 2021; Work
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We covered the llamas, the cats, the Afghan hounds and the guinea pigs. With what feels like an annual holiday at It’s Nice That, we’re yet again celebrating Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek and his kooky calendars as they never fail to entertain us. For 2022, Gebhart de Koekkoek has put together doggystyle (sorry, mum), 12 brilliant images of dogs doing a range of totally mundane tasks.

Hilariously, each dog is profiled; for example, we meet Ragna in March, who is the “most friendly and lazy dog on Wall Street,” and Bertha, August’s star, lives in Kreuzberg and “microdoses her soup before going to Berghain”.

Since Daniel is the “happy dog-owner of Limo (Mr. October),” he gets daily inspiration from his furry friend. “We already worked together on several projects before (panorama dog, tattoo dog) and appreciate the creative exchange between us,” Daniel says of the seemingly fruitful creative partnership between himself and Limo – who, in the calendar, sits on a rowing machine.

“For the calendar, it’s the same every year,” claims Daniel. “I collect and trash ideas until November.” It is only until November that Daniel knows he really needs to get a move on: “time pressure serves me with a new idea I fall in love with and I push through. Last year it was guinea pigs, this year it’s dogs. Same same but different,” he continues.

When he’s not working on calendars, Daniel says he’s “super happy with the ongoing collaborations I do with Helmut Lang, Moon Boot and Arte. I really love to stay with a client for the long-term and develop together from project to project.” The photographer has worked with publications like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Monocle, Condé Nast, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and Time magazine. As well as working for Apple, Adidas, Audi, BMW, Helmut Lang, Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, Zalando and more. Basically, he’s making us all feel pretty unaccomplished.

With all this commercial work and managing to find the time to create these calendars every year, Daniel must be inundated with inspiration and a brain whirring at top speed. So what inspires Daniel daily? “Sadly, everything. I can not look away or stop listening,” admits the artist, “even if I don’t want to see or hear anything. That's exhausting,” he claims. Next, Daniel will be taking some much needed time off, after saying he works 24/7 all year long. But that’s not before finishing “a little book project called “Shitbather”. And I'm planning to go to Milan to watch the supersize Moon Boot billboard I shot recently.”

GalleryDaniel Gebhart de Koekkoek: doggystyle (Copyright © Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, 2021)

A cane corso dog wears a pinstriped suit and tie, sitting at a dark marble desk. The dog holds a phone to its ear, while a green woven leather clutch sits in the foreground. Behind them, a screen displays a financial chart.

A boxer dog sits in the driver’s seat of a black car, wearing a black leather jacket. One paw is raised against the window as if waving.

A boxer dog wearing a dark green sweater leans over a blue pool table. The dog holds a pool cue, poised to hit a white ball.

A brown dog wears a black leather jacket and a crown made of crumpled aluminium foil. The dog sits against a backdrop of silver foil walls, holding a foil-wrapped object in one paw.

A Shiba Inu dog wears a plaid shirt and sits at a wooden desk, holding a paintbrush and a wooden palette. Behind them, a crude painting of a brown dog hangs on a white wall.

A black Cane Corso dog wears a blue tracksuit and sits at a pink table. The dog holds a dumbbell in each paw, as if lifting weights.

A yellow Labrador wears a red patterned bandana and a shimmering green robe. The dog holds a purple game controller in its paws, looking directly at the camera.

A person wears a brown oversized coat and a dark green hoodie. A small dog peeks out from the hood, while the person holds a small red sign that reads “DN DN”. They stand in front of a white ornate metal gate at night.

A fluffy brown dog wearing a blue satin robe stands at an ironing board. The dog holds a blue and white iron against a pink cloth, looking at the camera with its tongue out. Behind them, a shelf holds plants, figurines and a book titled “Sin City”.

A Vizsla dog dressed as a fortune teller sits behind a glass table. They wear a patterned shawl and hold a set of tarot cards between two human hands. Two crystal balls and more cards sit on the table against a plain brown background.

A greyhound wearing a green and brown robe sits atop a red Henry vacuum cleaner. The dog holds the vacuum handle as if cleaning a grey floor in a pantry.

A white greyhound wearing an oversized olive green coat sits on a rowing machine. A person’s hands emerge from the coat sleeves to grip the handle.

A calendar titled “Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek Doggystyle 2022” features a grid of 12 portraits of dogs. Each dog is posed in a human-like way, wearing clothes or accessories, with their name and month listed below.

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About the Author

Dalia Al-Dujaili

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Dalia is a freelance writer, producer and editor based in London. She’s currently the digital editor of Azeema, and the editor-in-chief of The Road to Nowhere Magazine. Previously, she was news writer at It’s Nice That, after graduating in English Literature from The University of Edinburgh.

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