Interview with HAZEGALLERY
EXHIBITIONS
28.09.-16.10.2022
#social 2022
CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
01.06.-01.10.2022
Fresh Legs 2022
Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin
30.03.-03.05.2022
The Augurs` Silence
arttausch, New York City
24.03.-16.05.2022
The Male Figure XI
Galerie Kunstbehandlung, München
28.10.-29.11.2021
KUNST FÜR ALLE
Kulturkiosk, Stuttgart
18.09.-30.10.2021
NO FEAR OF TRYING
arttausch, New York City
06.08.-08.08.2021
Artist Weekend
HAZEGALLERY, Berlin
05.06.-25.06.2021
The Concept of Authenticity
HAZEGALLERY, Berlin
12.09.-01.11.2020
Ereignis Malerei
Rathausgalerie Grimma/ Wanderausstellung
09.09.-13.09.2020
Power of portrait
Kathrin Landa und Jana Jacob WomenPaintersRoom (WPR)
Berlin Art Week
02.08.-31.08.2020
Ereignis Malerei
Städtische Galerie "Am Markt", Wurzen/ Wanderausstellung
07.03.-28.03.2020
Ereignis Malerei
Tapetenwerk Leipzig/ Wanderausstellung
21.02.-01.03.2020
HOME/when there is nothing left to do
Studio Meimberg, Berlin
ABOUT
In her acrylic paintings Jana Jacob explores private spaces: the actual home, the nakedness, the private relationship between two people and the private space behind the eyes.
FLY/FIGHT is a pair of two connected diptychs. Each painting shows the naked thighs of a person viewed from above, putting the viewer into the positions of the models. In this work the artist explores the narrow line, where closeness and desire turn into something threatening. The perspective of the viewer may be ambivalent: it can be both passive/receptive being touched or pinched but also active touching someone or squeezing and hurting someone.
CARESS is a series which consists of seven paintings. Depicted is a detail of the back of a person, which gets caressed by a hand. The hand position changes in each painting, so the movement of the touch becomes visible. The series plays with repetition, movement and brings in the element of time. By cutting it into pieces, this little gesture becomes the focus of attention and becomes more tangible.
UMARMUNG is a set of small paintings, which show the torsos of two naked people hugging each other. The viewing height remains the same. The details and directions of the depicted parts of the body create a symmetry of their own. The relationship of the two people becomes visible through their gestures, the affectionate touch and the secretive dark space between the bodies, whereas their identities remain hidden. The snapshot like frames of this encounter leave the spectator as a kind of secret observer.
HOME is a set of portraits of people in the most natural habitat: On their sofas. They are naked, sitting on their sofa with a relaxed physical and facial expression. All shown in a moment, when they are all by themselves and drop their outside-world-masks. Details like a little hint of a smile, the texture of the sofa`s fabric, the incident light are being explored and depicted with a cold color palette. Thus the interplay between private interiors and mental interiors becomes visible.
In PARTS the focus lies on details of human body parts, that are usually not exclusively shown in paintings. Jana Jacob chooses uncommon details and perspectives and puts them out of context, so they start to tell their own story. This may evoke a sense of ambiguity within the spectator.
Born 1982 in Weingarten, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
Studies and diploma in liberal arts at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, Germany with professor Christian Jankowski and at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France with professor Bernard Marcadé. Study visit at the Californian College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA and artist residency at the Lobot Gallery in Oakland, USA.
contact@janajacob.com
instagram: jana__jacob
Jana Jacob