Jakob Gautel
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Jakob Gautel
News
Works
Biography and Texts
Other Texts
Editions
Contact - Credits
#Paradise Lost
Merry Christmas!
Assemblages, 2011, 2024-2025
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Tales, Myths / Christmas / Icons / Beneath the Surface / Politics / Photography / Performances
2011
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
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
Window to the Past
Installation, 2022
Installations / Memory / Beneath the Surface / Time / Collaborations / Paradise Lost
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
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
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
Acquisition
2019
Icons / Who's Who ? / Paradise Lost / Memento mori / Memory / Photography / Tales, Myths / Public Collections
2019
Crossover
Sculptures, assemblages, since 1986/87
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Paradise Lost / Who's Who ? / Tales, Myths / Politics / Memento mori
2013
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
Donc tu m’aimes totalement? - So You Love Me Totally?
Social media post, 2018
Paradise Lost / Collaborations / Words / Internet / Beneath the Surface
2018
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
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
Raw Material
Performance-video, 1999
Performances / Paradise Lost / Video / Public Collections / Hands / Memento mori
2001
Double-edged
Assemblage, 2015-2017
Objects, assemblages / Performances / Icons / Paradise Lost / Signage / Politics
2015
Like Us
Performance, 2017
Performances / Icons / Paradise Lost / Self-Portraits / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Time / Internet / Memento mori
2017
Orlando
Demonstration, 2016
Public Space / Icons / Paradise Lost / Memory / Books / Actions / Words / Politics
2016
Winged Pencil
Assemblage, demonstration, 2015
Objects, assemblages / Public Space / Paradise Lost / Actions / Drawing / Media / Politics / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Hands
2015
Continental Drift
Flyer, 2013
Paradise Lost / Actions / Signage / Words / Politics
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
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
50 Years
Photographs, 1962/2012
Icons / Memory / Collaborations / Photography / Who's Who ? / Time / Internet / Reflections / Memento mori / Paradise Lost
2012
Et in Arcadia ego
Video, 2011
Paradise Lost / Memory / Silence / Video / Tales, Myths / Memento mori
2011
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
Madonna!
Photograph, postcard, 2007
Icons / Paradise Lost / Photography / Postcards
2009
Carpe diem
Inscription, 2005
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Words / Time
2011
Flood
Installation, 2004
Installations / Paradise Lost / Tales, Myths / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2009
Vagues à l’âme - Ebb and Flow
Installation, 2004
Installations / Public Space / Paradise Lost / Memory / Words
2011
I Love You
Installation, 1993/2003
Installations / Public Space / Words / Public Commissions, Acquisitions / Paradise Lost
2009
Moi je m’ennuie
Video clip, 2002
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Paradise Lost / Self-Portraits / Words / Video
2012
Veiled Christmas
Installation, 2000
Installations / Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Positive-Negative / Tales, Myths / Beneath the Surface / Memento mori / Christmas
2007
Lola or Jeff?
Interactive internet sound work, 2000
Paradise Lost / X / Internet / Beneath the Surface
2009
View Taken
Photography, postcards, 1999
Paradise Lost / Memory / Photography / Postcards
2009
Burnt Christmas
Installation, 1994
Installations / Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Tales, Myths / Christmas
2011
The Scourge of Time
Assemblage, 1993
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Paradise Lost / Time
2011
Dream Castle
Installation, 1993
Installations / Paradise Lost / Postcards / Politics
2009
Laughing Aid
Object, 1993
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Drawing / Beneath the Surface
2014
Fürs liebe Kind - For the Good Child
Assemblage, 1992
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Words / Clothes
2011
Are You Happy?
Poll, 1992
Paradise Lost / Actions / Words / Media / Nature, Plants, Gardens
2011
S’envoyer en l’air - To Get Laid/To Take Off
Performance, 1991
Performances / X / Beneath the Surface / Paradise Lost / Memento mori
2009
Paradise
Installation and photography, 1990
Installations / Paradise Lost / Tales, Myths / Beneath the Surface / Postcards / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Memory / Words
2009
Parlez-moi d’amour - Speak to me of Love
Postcard, 1990
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / Photography / Words / X / Postcards
2009
The Forbidden Fruit
Picture cubes, 1989
Objects, assemblages / Paradise Lost / X / Tales, Myths / Beneath the Surface
2011
Wallpaper
Lithography / silk screen on wallpaper, 1986-1990
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Drawing / Beneath the Surface / Public Collections / Postcards / Memento mori / Paradise Lost
2009
Charitable Gift
Dry-point and etching, 1985
Paradise Lost / Drawing / Politics / Memento mori
2015
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