Jakob Gautel
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Works
Biography and Texts
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Jakob Gautel
News
Works
Biography and Texts
Other Texts
Editions
Contact - Credits
#Memory
Encounters
Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry, 2025
Public Space / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Politics / Collaborations / Memory
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
The Infinite Book No. 4
Memorial book, 2008
Memory / Collaborations / Books / Drawing / Public Collections / Public Commissions, Acquisitions
2025
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
Walling Oneself In
Performance project, July 2024
Public Space / Drawing / Memory / Performances / Words / Politics / Collaborations / Objects, assemblages / Time
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
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
Window to the Past
Installation, 2022
Installations / Memory / Beneath the Surface / Time / Collaborations / Paradise Lost
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
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
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
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
Foucault’s Pendulum
Installation, 2017
Installations / Memory / Books / Politics
2017
Memory
Game edition, 2017
Memory / Collaborations / Photography / Who's Who ? / Politics / Hands
2017
Apparition
Performance, 2016
Performances / Video / Icons / Memory / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Clothes / Photography
2016
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
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
Et in Arcadia ego
Video, 2011
Paradise Lost / Memory / Silence / Video / Tales, Myths / Memento mori
2011
Epitaphs
Epitaph plaques, 2011
Objects, assemblages / Memory / Words / Time / Reflections / Memento mori
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
New Town?
Video, 2010
Installations / Paradise Lost / Memory / Video / Politics
2010
Buildings Take off
Action, 2009
Public Space / Memory / Actions / Politics
2009
Absences
Exhibition, 2006/07
Installations / Memory / Photography / Who's Who ? / Clothes / Nature, Plants, Gardens
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
Vagues à l’âme - Ebb and Flow
Installation, 2004
Installations / Public Space / Paradise Lost / Memory / Words
2011
About Fragility
Porcelain lithophanes, 2002
Shadows, Projections / Objects, assemblages / Icons / Memory / Collaborations / Public Collections / Public Commissions, Acquisitions
2009
Scythian
Tattoo, 1999-2001
Icons / Self-Portraits / Memory / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Drawing / Beneath the Surface / Clothes
2011
Basil
Installation, 2000
Installations / Memory / Books / Tales, Myths / Beneath the Surface / Postcards / Nature, Plants, Gardens / Memento mori
2011
Path of Light
Action, 1999
Public Space / Memory / Actions / Politics
2009
View Taken
Photography, postcards, 1999
Paradise Lost / Memory / Photography / Postcards
2009
The Skinned Room
Installation, 1998
Installations / Self-Portraits / Memory / Trompe-l'oeil / Beneath the Surface
2007
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
Batavia 1997
Video, 1997
Public Space / Memory / Video / Time / Clothes
2009
Never Look Back
Installation, collaboration with Jason Karaïndros, 1996
Installations / Public Space / Collaborations / Signage / Words / Memory / Politics
2023
The Sage and the Fool
Installation, 1995
Installations / Icons / Memory / Drawing / Politics
2009
Mourners of Bourges
Photographs, 1994
Public Space / Memory / Photography / Clothes / Memento mori / Performances / Icons
2009
Post-antique
Collaboration, sculpture assemblage, 1992
Objects, assemblages / Icons / Memory / Collaborations
2013
The Great Lottery
Installation, 1992
Installations / Memory / Words / Memento mori
2009
Memento vivendi
Porcelain medallions, 1992
Objects, assemblages / Memory / Photography / Reflections / Memento mori
2011
Paradise
Installation and photography, 1990
Installations / Paradise Lost / Tales, Myths / Beneath the Surface / Postcards / Censorship, Copyright, Freedom of Expression / Memory / Words
2009
The Origin of my World
Performance, 1965
Performances / Memory / Collaborations / Who's Who ? / Time / Tales, Myths
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