Jakob Gautel
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Jakob Gautel
News
Works
Biography and Texts
Other Texts
Editions
Contact - Credits
#Photography
Preparation
Paris, Ivry, 2025
Installations / Collaborations / Objects, assemblages / Photography
2025
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
2009
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
The Scream
Photo, July 2024
Politics / Icons / Clothes / Self-Portraits / Silence / Photography / Actions / Beneath the Surface / Performances
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 Vitruvian Man
Projection, photo series, 2022
Icons / Photography / Performances / Shadows, Projections / Trompe-l'oeil / Beneath the Surface / Collaborations / Who's Who ?
2023
Cogito ergo sum
Hommage to Descartes, 2022
Public Collections / Photography / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Icons / Words / Objects, assemblages / Beneath the Surface / Memento mori
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
Breath
Performance, video, photograph, 2020/2021
Shadows, Projections / Performances / Silence / Video / Time / Memento mori / Public Space / Photography
2021
Covid & Co.
Photographs, performances, videos, assemblages, since 2020
Memento mori / Silence / Time / Public Space / Paradise Lost / Photography / Performances / Video / Objects, assemblages
2021
Mother and Father
Photographs, 2019 and 2021
Memento mori / Who's Who ? / Icons / Paradise Lost / Performances / Photography / Memory
2021
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
Acquisition
2019
Icons / Who's Who ? / Paradise Lost / Memento mori / Memory / Photography / Tales, Myths / Public Collections
2019
Exhibition
2019
Photography / Tales, Myths / Who's Who ? / Icons / Politics / Memory / Memento mori
2019
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
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
Waiting for...
Photograph, 2018
Performances / Icons / Self-Portraits / Photography / Memento mori
2018
Performance
Paris, 2017
Public Space / Performances / Self-Portraits / Photography / Silence / Time / Beneath the Surface / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2017
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
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
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
Photomontages
Photomontages, since 1999
Icons / Photography / Who's Who ? / Time / Tales, Myths / Politics
2013
Apparition
Performance, 2016
Performances / Video / Icons / Memory / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Clothes / Photography
2016
Apparitions
Photo installation, 2015
Installations / Objects, assemblages / Photography / Trompe-l'oeil / Who's Who ? / Beneath the Surface / Hands
2015
Auen - Rhein in die Stadt !
Photo exhibition in public space, a project by Peter and Uta Gautel, 2014-2015
Public Space / Collaborations / Photography / Beneath the Surface / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2015
Augenblick
Photograph, 2014
Self-Portraits / Photography / X / Time / Reflections / Public Collections / Memento mori
2014
Justitia Selfie
2014
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Collaborations / Photography / Politics / Clothes / Who's Who ?
2014
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
50 Years
Photographs, 1962/2012
Icons / Memory / Collaborations / Photography / Who's Who ? / Time / Internet / Reflections / Memento mori / Paradise Lost
2012
Point of view
Urban intervention and postcards, 2009-2010
Installations / Public Space / Paradise Lost / Memory / Actions / Photography / Words / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Postcards
2010
Personae
Slideshow-video, 2008-2010
Performances / Self-Portraits / Photography / Who's Who ? / Video / Politics / Beneath the Surface / Clothes
2009
Absences
Exhibition, 2006/07
Installations / Memory / Photography / Who's Who ? / Clothes / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2009
Madonna!
Photograph, postcard, 2007
Icons / Paradise Lost / Photography / Postcards
2009
Artist’s book
Published in 2005
Memory / Books / Photography / Words / Who's Who ? / Politics / Clothes
2009
Just Married
Installation and photography, 2004
Installations / Icons / Positive-Negative / Photography / Clothes
2009
Look!
Photographs and posters, 2002 and 2004
Public Space / Actions / Signage / Photography / Hands
2009
One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji
Webcam photographs, collaboration with Eriko Momotani, 2001
Icons / Collaborations / Photography / Time / Internet / Postcards
2009
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
View Taken
Photography, postcards, 1999
Paradise Lost / Memory / Photography / Postcards
2009
Worlds Apart
Photo booth pictures, 1998
Icons / Self-Portraits / Photography / Who's Who ?
2007
Photographs
1862/63 (?) and 1996/97
Installations / Memory / Photography / Who's Who ? / Politics / Clothes / Public Collections
2012
Nues - Exposed
Retouched photographs, 1991-1994
Icons / Photography / Who's Who ? / Public Collections
2009
Mourners of Bourges
Photographs, 1994
Public Space / Memory / Photography / Clothes / Memento mori / Performances / Icons
2009
Memento vivendi
Porcelain medallions, 1992
Objects, assemblages / Memory / Photography / Reflections / Memento mori
2011
The Little Story of an Egg
Artist’s book, photography, 1990
Books / Photography / X / Tales, Myths
2009
Carnet de bal (The Last Waltz)
Artist’s book, photography, 1990
Self-Portraits / Books / Photography / Who's Who ? / Public Collections / Memento mori
2009
Parlez-moi d’amour - Speak to me of Love
Postcard, 1990
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Photography / Words / X / Postcards
2009
Exhibitionist
Performance, 1990
Objects, assemblages / Performances / Icons / Photography / X / Beneath the Surface / Clothes / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression
2011
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
Devastating Thought
Self portrait, 2017
Self-Portraits / Photography / Reflections / Memory
2021
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