Daniel Jean-Jules

In an era when the basic structures of our existence are rapidly changing, shaped  by cyberspace, digitization, global internet and the latent danger of humanity itself becoming an obsolete notion, when artists like spectators, fall, one after the other, for the perfect veneer of the virtual surface, Daniel Jean-Jules counts as one of the exceptional artists who refuse to be taken in by the potential of technology. His ideas develop cognitively, not digitally.  He deploys predetermined breaking points and irritations as part of his strategy to counter the growing automation of humanity and to maintain an upper hand on technology through analog experiments between abstraction and pictorial presence. In this aspect, he echoes Vilém Flusser's plea for a new philosophy of photography whose importance consists in being "the only form of revolution still open to us".

Be it through media productions, videos, experimental photographic techniques, objects, collages or painting. Jean-Jules never stops short of casting the big existential questions like how do we construct ourselves?  How do we apprehend the world presented to us? How have our perceptual and representational schema developed?  Rarely have other artists of his generation managed to enchant, confound and leave us so deeply astonished as he.  We can attribute this to his remarkable imagination combined with an ability to conjure images  which impress themselves indelibly into our memories.  With suspense and an essential subtlety, he cultivates an energy, occasionally provoking, often irritating and always enigmatic, which attracts us through its refusal of overarching explanations.  

  text passage  by  Eva Schickler M.A.

born in Cologne, Germany

photo assistance, Cologne

residency in San Francisco, CA/USA

studies of fine arts at University of Arts Berlin/Germany

Master Student of Prof. Christiane Möbus UdK/University of Arts, Berlin, Germany

Vintage Futurisme / Adriaan Van De Berg Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Unleashed Color / Mydlard Gallery, Miami Florida, USA

Fragments of Reality / Muzeion Tulancingo, Montarrey, Mexico 

Resonance of Thought / Yamatoya Art Space, Kyoto, Japan

Desire for Harmony/ The Cube, Koeln, Germany

Phenomena/Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg

Kaleidoskop/VIDEOworkCASE, Nürnberg

Immatéreaux/Berlin - Raum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden

Velvet/Galerie Gillian Morris, Berlin

20 Non-Existing Artists/Galerie Tornado am Ostkreuz, Berlin Disappearance/Areal 28/Galerie Lücke und Partner

studio at auf AEG, Nürnberg, Germany

studio in Cologne, Germany

marriage and change of name to Daniel Jean-Jules

excursion through México

relocating to Cologne, Germany

The I in AI / Patricia Bloomberg Gallery, New York City, USA

Green is Hope, but is it the Future?  Kunstverein Kohlenhof/RathhausArt, Nürnberg

Capri by Night/video screening for the public space/Schauspiel, Köln

Étre et À Voir/Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg

After Post Intellectualism/Lithos, Köln 

Männer und Frauen/Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Köln

20 Non-Existing Artists & 99 Beautiful (with Tessa Knapp)/Pop Up Kalk, Köln

Barcelona Showcase/Casa Batlló, Barcelona

Parallax/Barlow Fine Art, London

Ich Bin Kunst/Kohlenhof, Nürnberg

​Perspektiven Des Substitut/Centre D'Art Neuchâtel

​Galerie Der Besten -Bundeswettbewerb Des BMBF/Bundeskunsthalle,      

Bonn KunstpreisLangwasser, Nürnberg

En Berline!... Ou Le Choix De Jean Mairet/Galerie LA Bank, Paris

​Something To Answer For/Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin

​Festival Brigade Des Images Paris

​Vienna Fair/Galerie Gillian Morris, Vienna

Contravision Filmfestival, Berlin

Möbius Schleife/Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin

Kunstsalon (Fair)/Galerie Lücke und Partner, Berlin

Contemporary Fine Art/Galerie Claudius, Hamburg

Muse Heute ?/Städtische Galerie Im Bunten Tor, Bremen

Filmkanal /Asperger Gallery, Berlin

Top 10 /Estonian Art Academy Gallery, Tallinn

Oskar Wilde Festival /Brotfabrik, Berlin