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JAKOB URBAN

 

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dating profile monochromes
2023

sublimation print on aluminum
each 9 x 16 cm

Installation view: too small to fail, raum on demand, Berlin (DE)
Photos: Julian Blum


 


assemble, arrange, assign
2022

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

 

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WHOLE
2023

underwear, various embellishments, cotton thread
Installation view: too small to fail, raum on demand, Berlin (DE)
Photos: Julian Blum

 

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no formal title
2022

UV print on foam (A2)
Installation view: LIMBO - face down on the pavement, KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (DE)


 

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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)


 

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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)


 

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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)


 

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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)


 

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JAKOB URBAN

*1997 in Brussels, Belgium; lives and works between Berlin and Brussels


is a multidisciplinary artist whose work revolves around being exposed and being perceived. His works explore formulations of queer aesthetics involving abstraction, visual codes, site-specificity and broader cultural reference(s).

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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