JAN
ZÖller
artworks
About
Jan Zöller born in Haslach im Kinzigtal, (DE), 1992. Lives and works in Karlsruhe, (DE)
Jan Zöller’s installations and paintings resemble a knocked-together, cosmic, comic theatre. Fires flicker, trouser legs and elbows dance, run and burn. A central motif is fountains, basins and tubs as symbols of communal places, but also of the circulation of vital energy, in human and economic relationships. In his painting, Zöller creates something new out of broken or outdated systems, which include the current art business. He reflects in painting what it means to him to be an artist. He is less interested in a dialogue with art history or other contemporary painters than in the psychosocial relationships and conditions that shape his work as an artist. In his installations, sculptures and paintings, Zöller repeatedly speaks of the dichotomy between economic production and the spiritual, magical side of art.
Education
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, (DE)
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, (FR)
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, (DE)
Awards and Residencies
2021 Arbeitsstipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds, (DE)
2019 Awarded for 24. Bundespreis für Kunststudierende, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, (DE)
2017 Postgraduate award: Academy of Finearts, Karlsruhe, (DE)
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, (DE)
2022 Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim, (DE)
2022 Will ich nichts verpassen, schließe ich die Augen, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, (ES)
2021 Jan Zöller and the Fire Spirits (Side A), Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2020 Keine Zeit zum Baden, Städtische Galerie, Ostfildern, (DE)
2019 Possibly There is a possibility that everything is possible, Meyer-Riegger, Robert Grunenberg Gallery, Berlin, (DE)
2019 SPA(sibo), DINAMIKA, Moscow, (RU)
2016 OPULENCE, Geschwisterraum, Karlsruhe, (DE)
2015 I saw people smoking crack on holidays, Mucharaum, Karlsruhe, (DE)
2014 100% pure kokain, Mucharaum, Karlsruhe, (DE)
Group Exhibitions
2023 IMAGINE — 10 Unrealized Projects, Robert Grunenberg, (DE)
2022 Why can’t we live together, Sammlung Peters-Messer, Kunstmuseum Marburg und Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, (DE)
2022 There is no sea but the sea, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, (DE)
2021 For Real?! Jahresgaben und Editionen, Kunstverein Reutlingen, (DE)
2021 6 + 3 = 1, Galerie Barbara Seiler, Zurich, (CH)
2020 En otro tiempo ibas muy elegante, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, (ES)
2020 Paranoia Strikes Deep, Osnova, Moscow, (RU)
2020 Sincere Intentions, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2019 Arco Madrid, Meyer-Riegger, Madrid, (ES)
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)
past exhibitions
press
- 2023 Kunst ohne Grenzen: Museum in Schaffhausen zeigt aktuelle Malerei, Südkurier
- 2022 JAN ZÖLLER – VISITORS, kubaparis
- 2022 Wir sagen uns Dunkles – kuratiert von Christian Malycha, miettinen-collection
- 2022 Zehn Künstler im Kunstverein, gea
- 2022 Karlsruher Künstler Jan Zöller stellt in Heppenheim aus, echo-online
- 2021 Kunstverein Friedrichshafen zeigt Jan Zöller, architekturzeitung
- 2018 Numéro Homme Berlin, Herbst/Winter 2018, S. 123.
- 2018 Meisterschülerkatalog, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe