Jakob Gautel
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Jakob Gautel
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#Politics
Encounters
Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry, 2025
Public Space / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Politics / Collaborations / Memory
2025
Exhibitions
Since 1997
Installations / Memory / Photography / Who's Who ? / Video / Politics / Clothes / Public Collections
2025
Merry Christmas!
Assemblages, 2011, 2024-2025
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Tales, Myths / Christmas / Icons / Beneath the Surface / Politics / Photography / Performances
2011
Voltaire…?
Work in progress, 2024-2025
Public Space / Installations / Memory / Photography / Politics / Who's Who ? / Words
2024
In Residency
Newspaper, Ivry, 2024-2025
Public Space / Media / Memory / Words / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Politics / Objects, assemblages
2024
The Scream
Photo, July 2024
Politics / Icons / Clothes / Self-Portraits / Silence / Photography / Actions / Beneath the Surface / Performances
2024
Walling Oneself In
Performance project, July 2024
Public Space / Drawing / Memory / Performances / Words / Politics / Collaborations / Objects, assemblages / Time
2024
Memento mori
Assemblages, performances, since 2020
Self-Portraits / Memento mori / Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Performances / Photography / Time / Politics
2024
On the Plinth
Apparitions, performances, photos, Ivry, 2023-2024
Collaborations / Photography / Performances / Politics / Memory / Words / Public Space / Installations / Objects, assemblages / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Paradise Lost
2024
Series of photos and texts
Since 2015
Objects, assemblages / Public Space / Icons / Paradise Lost / Memory / Collaborations / Photography / Words / Who's Who ? / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Christmas / Hands / Clothes / Public Commissions, Acquisitions / Memento mori
2015
Workshop
Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry, November 2023
Collaborations / Public Space / Words / Performances / Photography / Memory / Politics / Installations / Drawing / Objects, assemblages
2023
Triennale Art Public #3
Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry, 2023-2024
Postcards / Public Space / Icons / Installations / Who's Who ? / Politics / Photography / Words / Memory / Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Performances / Drawing / Beneath the Surface / Trompe-l'oeil / Collaborations / Self-Portraits
2023
Work in progress
Since 2023
Public Space / Politics / Memory / Icons / Drawing / Objects, assemblages / Photography / Beneath the Surface / Trompe-l'oeil / Postcards / Who's Who ? / Words / Paradise Lost / Performances / Self-Portraits / Installations / Collaborations
2023
Out of Joint
Assemblage, 2023
Objects, assemblages / Politics / Installations / Paradise Lost / Photography / Tales, Myths / Memento mori
2023
Research
Since 2023
Memory / Photography / Icons / Politics / Self-Portraits / Postcards / Drawing / Public Space / Who's Who ? / Installations / Words / Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Performances / Beneath the Surface / Trompe-l'oeil / Collaborations
2023
The Human Condition
Assemblage, demonstration, 2023
Public Space / Politics / Actions / Self-Portraits / Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Memento mori
2023
Sisyphus
Performance, Christmas 2022
Performances / Icons / Memento mori / Politics / Objects, assemblages / Time / Christmas / Paradise Lost / Beneath the Surface / Self-Portraits
2022
War and Peace
Assemblages, 2022
Actions / Public Space / Icons / Politics / Memento mori / Paradise Lost / Trompe-l'oeil / Objects, assemblages
2022
Exhibition in Poitiers
2022
Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Public Space / Icons / Who's Who ? / Hands / Memory / Collaborations / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Words / Photography / Politics / Paradise Lost / Clothes / Objects, assemblages / Public Commissions, Acquisitions
2022
First exhibitions
2015-2018
Objects, assemblages / Public Space / Icons / Paradise Lost / Memory / Collaborations / Photography / Words / Who's Who ? / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Hands / Clothes
2020
Publications
Since 2006
Books / Installations / Photography / Tales, Myths / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Politics / Words / Memory / Postcards / Media
2024
Xmas Hood
Textile object, performance, 2018-2020
Objects, assemblages / Performances / Icons / Paradise Lost / Actions / Who's Who ? / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Clothes / Christmas / Tales, Myths
2018
Silence = Death
T-shirt, 2020
Public Space / Actions / Words / Silence / Politics / Clothes / Memento mori
2020
Exhibition
2019
Photography / Tales, Myths / Who's Who ? / Icons / Politics / Memory / Memento mori
2019
Crossover
Sculptures, assemblages, since 1986/87
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Paradise Lost / Who's Who ? / Tales, Myths / Politics / Memento mori
2013
POST
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Poster, 2019
Public Space / Actions / Signage / Words / Politics
2019
Compost
Installation, 2019
Installations / Paradise Lost / Self-Portraits / Memory / Photography / Time / Drawing / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Memento mori
2019
Beneath the Tarmac, the Paving Stones!
Photograph, postcard, stickers, placard, 2018
Public Space / Icons / Paradise Lost / Memory / Photography / Words / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Postcards
2018
May 98
Performance, 1998
Public Space / Performances / Paradise Lost / Memory / Actions / Words / Video / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression
2018
50 ans ça suffit - Is 50 Years Enough?
Exhibition, 2018
Performances / Paradise Lost / Memory / Words / Tales, Myths / Media / Politics / Postcards
2018
War in Troy?
TV
project, 2018
Public Space / Memory / Collaborations / Video / Tales, Myths / Media / Politics
2018
Hollow Man
Sculpture, 2018
Objects, assemblages / Self-Portraits / Who's Who ? / Drawing / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Memento mori
2018
Commented slide shows
Since 2017
Performances / Memory / Politics / Paradise Lost / Photography / Memento mori
2023
Bauhaus Residenz
Artist in residence, Bauhaus Dessau 2017
Tales, Myths / Memory / Paradise Lost / Memento mori / Icons / Photography / Politics
2022
Double-edged
Assemblage, 2015-2017
Objects, assemblages / Performances / Icons / Paradise Lost / Signage / Politics
2015
Foucault’s Pendulum
Installation, 2017
Installations / Memory / Books / Politics
2017
Memory
Game edition, 2017
Memory / Collaborations / Photography / Who's Who ? / Politics / Hands
2017
Leaflets and posters
Action, 2017
Public Space / Icons / Collaborations / Actions / Photography / Words / Trompe-l'oeil / Who's Who ? / Politics
2017
Photomontages
Photomontages, since 1999
Icons / Photography / Who's Who ? / Time / Tales, Myths / Politics
2013
Orlando
Demonstration, 2016
Public Space / Icons / Paradise Lost / Memory / Books / Actions / Words / Politics
2016
Gloria
Interview, 2016
Objects, assemblages / Performances / Memory / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Video / X / Media / Politics / Beneath the Surface
2016
Winged Pencil
Assemblage, demonstration, 2015
Objects, assemblages / Public Space / Paradise Lost / Actions / Drawing / Media / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Hands
2015
Justitia Selfie
2014
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Collaborations / Photography / Politics / Clothes / Who's Who ?
2014
Continental Drift
Flyer, 2013
Paradise Lost / Actions / Signage / Words / Politics
2013
Entre! - In Between / Come In!
Urban intervention, photo and text, 2013
Public Space / Photography / Words / Who's Who ? / Politics / Postcards / Hands
2013
The Stars
Action, photo, video, collaboration with Jason Karaïndros, 2013
Objects, assemblages / Performances / Icons / Paradise Lost / Collaborations / Actions / Signage / Photography / Who's Who ? / Politics / Public Space
2013
Sterntaler - The Star Money
Photomontage, 2013
Paradise Lost / Photography / Tales, Myths / Politics
2014
Scream in the Desert
Performance, collaboration with Jason Karaïndros, 2013
Public Space / Performances / Collaborations / Actions / Politics / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Photography
2020
Corona Krause and Hermann (Sven) Gautel
Research project, since 2012
Icons / Who's Who ? / Memory / Memento mori / Paradise Lost / Photography / Video / Politics / Tales, Myths / Public Collections / Self-Portraits / Reflections / Beneath the Surface / Shadows, Projections / Performances
2022
Heroes of the Dardanelles
Photo project, 2012
Objects, assemblages / Public Space / Icons / Self-Portraits / Memory / Photography / Who's Who ? / Politics
2012
Big Brother
Performance, 2011
Performances / Self-Portraits / Trompe-l'oeil / Video / Internet / Reflections / Media / Politics
2011
Here we are
Urban interventions, 2009-2010
Public Space / Memory / Actions / Signage / Politics
2010
Point of view
Urban intervention and postcards, 2009-2010
Installations / Public Space / Paradise Lost / Memory / Actions / Photography / Words / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Postcards
2010
Heart of the City
Urban intervention, 2010
Public Space / Paradise Lost / Actions / Politics / Beneath the Surface
2010
New Town?
Video, 2010
Installations / Paradise Lost / Memory / Video / Politics
2010
Buildings Take off
Action, 2009
Public Space / Memory / Actions / Politics
2009
Personae
Slideshow-video, 2008-2010
Performances / Self-Portraits / Photography / Who's Who ? / Video / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Clothes
2009
Breaking News : The Emperor’s New Clothes
Video, 2008
Public Space / Collaborations / Trompe-l'oeil / Video / X / Media / Politics / Clothes
2009
Landau
Video, 2006
Objects, assemblages / Memory / Books / Video / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Collaborations
2009
Artist’s book
Published in 2005
Memory / Books / Photography / Words / Who's Who ? / Politics / Clothes
2009
Place du Préfet Claude Erignac
Commission of the City of Paris, 2004
Shadows, Projections / Public Space / Memory / Words / Politics / Public Commissions, Acquisitions / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2009
Che
Textile work, 2001-2004
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Collaborations / Positive-Negative / Politics / Public Collections / Public Commissions, Acquisitions
2009
Freedom
Exhibition, performance, 1999
Installations / Performances / Collaborations / Words / Media / Politics
2009
Draughtboard Carpet
Installation, collaboration with Jason Karaïndros, 1999
Installations / Collaborations / Positive-Negative / Signage / Who's Who ? / Politics
2009
Path of Light
Action, 1999
Public Space / Memory / Actions / Politics
2009
Tirez-vous, poussez-vous - Out of my Way!
Stickers, 1999/2006
Objects, assemblages / Public Space / Actions / Signage / Words / Politics
2011
Degenerate Artist
Action, 1998
Public Space / Memory / Actions / Signage / Words / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression
2011
Photographs
1862/63 (?) and 1996/97
Installations / Memory / Photography / Who's Who ? / Politics / Clothes / Public Collections
2012
Initiative for Direct Democracy
Installation, 1997
Installations / Objects, assemblages / Public Space / Words / Politics
2009
Never Look Back
Installation, collaboration with Jason Karaïndros, 1996
Installations / Public Space / Collaborations / Signage / Words / Memory / Politics
2023
Rendez-vous!
Action, 1996
Public Space / Actions / Signage / Politics / Clothes / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression
2009
The Sage and the Fool
Installation, 1995
Installations / Icons / Memory / Drawing / Politics
2009
Personal memorandum
Contribution to the catalogue, 1993
Politics / Words / Who's Who ? / Actions
2022
Dream Castle
Installation, 1993
Installations / Paradise Lost / Postcards / Politics
2009
Business cards
Action, 1993
Objects, assemblages / Actions / Words / Who's Who ? / Politics
2011
Reserved for the Homeless
Action, 1991
Public Space / Actions / Signage / Words / Politics / Trompe-l'oeil / Beneath the Surface
2009
Beauty Institute
Installation, 1988
Installations / Objects, assemblages / Words / Trompe-l'oeil / Politics / Beneath the Surface
2009
Charitable Gift
Dry-point and etching, 1985
Paradise Lost / Drawing / Politics / Memento mori
2015
Installation
2006-2021
Installations / Books / Words / Tales, Myths / Memory / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Collaborations / Photography
2024
Photography
Since 2021
Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Installations / Books / Memory / Words / Photography / Politics / Tales, Myths / Collaborations
2024
Bearing Balls
Performance, Ivry, 2025
Performances / Memory / Politics / Objects, assemblages / Photography
2025
Exhibition
Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry, 2025
Installations / Memory / Politics / Performances / Photography / Paradise Lost / Objects, assemblages / Shadows, Projections / Public Space / Collaborations / Words / Video / Who's Who ?
2025
The Right to Rest
Performance, Ivry, May 1
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, 2025
Performances / Public Space / Politics / Memory / Self-Portraits / Photography / Clothes / Who's Who ? / Objects, assemblages
2025
Photo Studio
Photographs, Ivry, 2025
Installations / Photography / Who's Who ? / Clothes / Public Space / Objects, assemblages / Icons / Politics / Memory / Collaborations
2025
Mediation
Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry, 2025
Public Space / Icons / Collaborations / Photography / Politics / Clothes
2025