Jakob Gautel
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Jakob Gautel
News
Works
Biography and Texts
Other Texts
Editions
Contact - Credits
#Self-Portraits
Memento mori
Assemblages, performances, photographs, since 2020
Self-Portraits / Memento mori / Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Performances / Photography / Time / Politics / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Memory
2026
Epitaphs
Engraved plaques, postcard, projection, 2011, 2025, 2026
Objects, assemblages / Memory / Words / Time / Reflections / Memento mori / Postcards / Self-Portraits / Beneath the Surface / Shadows, Projections / Politics
2026
Peace Council
Photograph and social media post, 2026
Self-Portraits / Who's Who ? / Media / Internet / Politics / Performances / Photography / Icons / Tales, Myths / Christmas / Objects, assemblages / Clothes
2026
Images
Photographs, since 2008
Self-Portraits / Memory / Photography / Reflections / Memento mori / Beneath the Surface / Words / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Silence / Objects, assemblages / Shadows, Projections / Tales, Myths / Collaborations / Internet / Books
2009
The Scream
Photo, July 2024
Politics / Icons / Clothes / Self-Portraits / Silence / Photography / Actions / Beneath the Surface / Performances
2024
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
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
Performance
Châtellerault, 2019
Public Space / Performances / Self-Portraits / Photography / Silence / Time / Beneath the Surface / Nature, Plants, Gardens
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
Waiting for...
Photograph, 2018
Performances / Icons / Self-Portraits / Photography / Memento mori
2018
Hollow Man
Sculpture, 2018
Objects, assemblages / Self-Portraits / Who's Who ? / Drawing / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Memento mori
2018
Performance
Paris, 2017
Public Space / Performances / Self-Portraits / Photography / Silence / Time / Beneath the Surface / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2017
Like Us
Performance, 2017
Performances / Icons / Paradise Lost / Self-Portraits / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Time / Internet / Memento mori
2017
Communicating Vessel
Photograph, 2017
Performances / Self-Portraits / Collaborations / Positive-Negative / Photography / Who's Who ? / Reflections
2017
Performance
Gentilly, 2016
Public Space / Performances / Self-Portraits / Photography / Silence / Time / Beneath the Surface / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2016
Augenblick
Photograph, 2014
Self-Portraits / Photography / X / Time / Reflections / Public Collections / Memento mori
2014
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
Omphalos
Installation, 2010
Installations / Objects, assemblages / Self-Portraits / Beneath the Surface / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Memento mori
2010
Personae
Slideshow-video, 2008-2010
Performances / Self-Portraits / Photography / Who's Who ? / Video / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Clothes
2009
Moi je m’ennuie
Video clip, 2002
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Paradise Lost / Self-Portraits / Words / Video
2012
Scythian
Tattoo, 1999-2001
Icons / Self-Portraits / Memory / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Drawing / Beneath the Surface / Clothes
2011
Sous le Ciel de Paris - Under the Parisian Sky
Artist’s book, photography, 1999
Public Space / Books / Photography / Beneath the Surface / Public Collections / Postcards / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Self-Portraits
2009
Worlds Apart
Photo booth pictures, 1998
Icons / Self-Portraits / Photography / Who's Who ?
2007
The Skinned Room
Installation, 1998
Installations / Self-Portraits / Memory / Trompe-l'oeil / Beneath the Surface
2007
Out of Order
Assemblage, 1997
Objects, assemblages / Self-Portraits / Words / Reflections
2009
Carnet de bal (The Last Waltz)
Artist’s book, photography, 1990
Self-Portraits / Books / Photography / Who's Who ? / Public Collections / Memento mori
2009
Artist’s Statement
Jakob Gautel
Self-Portraits / Words
2008
Oracle - Alternative Biographies
“Who is Jakob Gautel?” — ChatGPT consulted between 05/02/2023 and 05/06/2023
Self-Portraits / Internet / Words / Who's Who ?
2023
Devastating Thought
Self portrait, 2017
Self-Portraits / Photography / Reflections / Memory
2021
The Right to Rest
Performance, Ivry, May 1
st
, 2025
Performances / Public Space / Politics / Memory / Self-Portraits / Photography / Clothes / Who's Who ? / Objects, assemblages
2025
Facing the Sea
Performance, Greece, 2025
Memory / Silence / Icons / Photography / Performances / Paradise Lost / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Self-Portraits / Clothes / Memento mori
2025