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UPCOMING
residency
01.11. - 30.11.2023
raum on demand
Berlin, Germany
too small to fail
group exhibition
30.11. - 03.12.2023
raum on demand
Berlin, Germany
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WORKS (selection)

assemble, arrange, assign
2022
laminated wood panel, cardboard box, steel plate, cardboard, polyester thread, screws, photocopy (A4), clear document folder

no formal title
2022
UV print on foam (A2)
Installation view: LIMBO - face down on the pavement, KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DE)

wig (sous les pavés, la plage!)
2022
cobblestone, various embellishments, polyester thread
Installation view: LIMBO - face down on the pavement, KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DE)

soft intervention I
2021
printed paper on black t-shirt
Installation view: roam, Berlin (DE)

What were the skies like when you were young?
2023
digital print on offset paper (350g), metal frame
Installation view: Umzug, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin (DE)

Mmm... Parking Lot I Love You
2022
wooden display structures, PET plastic bottles, clay, pieces of brick found on site, video
Installation View: LIMBO - face down on the pavement, KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DE)

my father's keys, photographed by my father + my mother's keys, photographed by my mother
2023
digital print on Munken paper (300g)
Installation view: Umzug, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin (DE)

each of them touched by my lips
2023
various bottles (glass, PET), cans, flowers
Installation view: Venus is a terrible place for a vacation. Mauerwerk, Berlin (DE)

crime and punishment (175)
2023
iridescent tinsel, digital print on offset paper (140g), metal frame
Installation view: Venus is a terrible place for a vacation. Mauerwerk, Berlin (DE)
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JAKOB URBAN
*1997 in Brussels, Belgium; lives and works between Berlin and Brussels
is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in conceptual and research-based practices. His projects develop as a response both to the site and context they are exhibited in as well as current socio-political issues that shape our societal structures. For this he uses varying communication strategies that position themselves as signs, signifiers and display structures; adding, subtracting and layering meaning as a way of producing art as a sensory experience, playfully queering form, material, narrative(s) and (historical) references. The work often unfolds spatially in the form of installations and performances using found objects, built structures, printed matter, video and sculptural elements.
He has worked in projects at a.o. Stiftung Kalk Gestalten, KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, ortstermin Moabit, ABRACADABRA Institute, Akademie der Künste Berlin, artspring Festival, Kunstquartier Bethanien, MALL ANDERS, roam space, 48H Neukölln, Sound Thought Glasgow, Kulturfabrik Moabit, Kulturwerk Berlin, Centre Culturel du Crous de Paris, Post Post Cultural.
For more information and a full portfolio feel free to enquire via:
jakob.urban@hotmail.com
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EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS (selection)
2023
too small to fail
raum on demand, Berlin (DE)
Sound Thought: Granularity
ARC, Glasgow (UK)
Venus is a terrible place for a vacation.
ortstermin Moabit: Mauerwerk, Berlin (DE)
Umzug
Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin (DE)
HUMORRIOTS
Galerie M, Berlin (DE)
2022
things being friends
Gebäude 501, Berlin (DE)
KalkKunst17
Stiftung KalkGestalten, Cologne (DE)
Wiedersehen
Kotti Café, Berlin (DE)
LIMBO - face down on the pavement
Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DE)
Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground.
ortstermin Moabit: Mauerwerk, Berlin (DE)
Körper in Bewegung
Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DE)
Lost and Found
ABRACADABRA, Berlin (DE)
Curatorial Part de Deux - Artists of the working arts
Gewölbekeller Gewerbehof KönigStadt, Berlin (DE)
2021
PROLOG : never gonna give you up
roam, Berlin (DE)
un-troubled
Freiraum im Studentenhaus, Berlin (DE)
Parachute(s)
48h Neukölln: QUO, Berlin (DE)
PARKEN IST BEWEGUNG
KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DE)
2020
Barrikade, Barrikade!
Kulturwerk Berlin, Online + Berlin (DE)
2019
ParisXBerlin
Kunstraum Behrenstraße, Berlin (DE)
bewölkt
Sound Thought, Glasgow (UK)
2018
Untitled (Empowerment)
Kulturfabrik Moabit, Berlin (DE)
Pics or it did not happen!
KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DE)
2017
One Night Stand / HELP YOU TO SEE IN THE BLACKOUT
Freiraum Studentenhaus, Berlin (DE)
Cinq Sens – Fünf Sinne
Centre Culturel du Crous de Paris, Paris (FR)
2016
POST POST ZINE #2
Post Post Cultural, Brussels (BE)
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