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Posted on February 2, 2021October 5, 2021

DOMINIK, Berlin

acrylic on canvas, 120 x 150 cm, 2021
photocredit: Juan Martinez Janna

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020

SALVATORE, Berlin

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2020

Posted on August 17, 2020August 18, 2020

MAB, Berlin

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2020

Posted on February 20, 2020October 6, 2021

MARIE, Berlin

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2020

Posted on November 17, 2019February 6, 2020

JAKOB, Welsow

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2019
Posted on July 21, 2019February 6, 2020

NAJIB, Casablanca

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2019
Posted on April 29, 2019October 6, 2021

SOPHIE, Bayonne

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2019
photocredit: Juan Martinez Janna

Posted on April 29, 2019June 30, 2019

ECKART, Wien

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2018
Posted on April 29, 2019June 30, 2019

FRÉDÉRIC, Paris

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2018
Posted on April 29, 2019October 6, 2021

SALMA, Paris

acrylic on canvas, 60×60 cm, 2017
photocredit: Juan Martinez Janna

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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.

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

 

 

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