JAN ZÖLLER ON INSTAGRAMJAN ZÖLLER born in 1992 in Haslach i. Kinzigtal (D) lives and works in Karlsruhe
Education
2015-2019 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe with Prof. Leni Hoffmann
2016 École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris with Prof. Jean Marc Bustamante
2012-2014 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe with Prof. Marijke van Warmerdam
Grants, Awards, Fellowships
2021 Arbeitsstipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE
2019 Awarded for 24. Bundespreis für Kunststudierende, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE)
2017 Postgraduate award: Academy of Finearts, Karlsruhe (DE)
Solo and Two Person Shows
2022 Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, DE
Kunstverein Heppenheim, DE
Will ich nichts verpassen, schließe ich die Augen, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, ESP
2021 Jan Zöller and the Fire Spirits (Side A), Galerie Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, DE
Jan Zöller, Meyer Riegger, Basel, hosted by Galerie Knoell, Basel, CHE
Keine Zeit zum Baden, Städtische Galerie, Ostfildern, DE
2019 Possibly there´s a possibility that everything is possible, Meyer-Riegger, Robert Grunenberg (DE)
2019 Blue Peel, Spazio Buonasera, Torino (IT) with Immanuel Birkert
2019 SPA(sibo), DINAMIKA, Moscow (RU)
2019 ART Karlsruhe, Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe (DE) with Miriam Cahn
2018 Wir hatten Steinschleudern und wussten wann die Sonne untergeht, Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe (DE) with David Richter
2016 OPULENCE, Geschwisterraum Karlsruhe (DE)
2015 I saw people smoking crack on holidays, Mucharaum Karlsruhe (DE)
2014 100% pure kokain, Mucharaum Karlsruhe (DE)
Selected Groupshows
2022 Why can’t we live together, Sammlung Peters-Messer, Kunstmuseum Marburg und Marburger Kunstverein, DE (upcoming)
There is no sea but the sea, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE
For Real?! Jahresgaben und Editionen, Kunstverein Reutlingen, DE
2021 6 + 3 = 1, Galerie Barbara Seiler, Zurich, CHE
En otro tiempo ibas muy elegante, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, ESP
2020 Paranoia Strikes Deep, Osnova, Moscow, RU
2020 Sincere Intentions, Robert Grunenberg (DE)
2019 Arco Madrid, Meyer-Riegger, Madrid (SP)
2019 ART Basel Miami, Meyer-Riegger, Miami (US)
2019 24.Bundespreis für Kunststudierende, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE)
2019 Zwei Alter: Jung, Galerie Crone, Berlin (DE)
2019 ART Basel, Meyer-Riegger, Basel (CH)
2019 You are here, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
“In an era of cultural production tailored for success, Jan Zöller’s collaged image architectures tell of malfunction, failure, loneliness, comedy and the attempt to achieve genuine social connection. Zöller’s paintings are full of allusions to the failure of modernist utopias and German postwar painting, to the collapse of hyper-capitalism. But just as the anarchist birds occupy the fountains and bathrooms of his paintings and appropriate them for their own communities, Zöller’s painterly practice creates the fabric of new utopias from the material of malfunctioning systems (to which the current art industry surely belongs).”
—Oliver Koerner von Gustorf, 2019.
2018 Numéro Homme Berlin, Herbst/Winter 2018, S. 123.
Meisterschülerkatalog, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, 2017/2018
Interview with Jan Zöller on www.kubaparis.de
