Bob Jones (Elisabeth Eichler) studied Literature in Montpellier and Photography in Berlin and Leipzig. As an artist, translator and writer, she regularly moves places and exhibits all around the world. From a queer feminist perspective, Bob Jones' photo and video works subvert assigned body and gender roles to acknowledge diverse shifts and shades of identity. Jones combines observations made through her analogue long-term project Wanderkamera with research on digital and algorithmic power systems to analyze transitional and transformational settings of social interaction.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Transitions. Protestkulturen und digitale Welten im Wandel, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
2021/22 System Failed, participatory performance with Kollektiv Artes Mobiles,
Schaubühne Lindenfels, Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, Zollverein Essen, ZKM Karlsruhe
2021 Arcipelago, Minimum Gallery, Palermo
2021 What I desire, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
2021 Luftlinien Hermannlatz, 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2020 Behind Walls, 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2020 Behind Walls, Online-Performance with Kollektiv Artes Mobiles, Leipzig/Berlin
2018 #UNCENSOREDBERLIN, iHeartBerlin/Blogfabrik, Berlin
2018 MEDfaces Rostres de la Mediterrània, Erfurt, funded by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
2018 MEDfaces Rostres de la Mediterrània, Greek Embassy, Berlin
2018 Ship of Tolerance, Kunsthalle Rostock/Re-Edition of Biennale 2005, Venedig/Rostock
2018 Image Spaces: Biology and Building, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
2017 Working Title, George Fraser, Auckland
2017 PIC Förderpreis Selected 2012–2016, Atelier Meerkatze, Bonn
2016 PIC Award Winner Exhibition, Photokina, Düsseldorf
2016 Visualizing Environmental Change, SubZero Thematic Network on Communicating Arctic Research/University of the Arctic, Kuusamo/Monaco
2016 Studio Vortex 16, residents' screening with Antoine d'Agata, Arles
2015 A Double-edged Sword, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
2015 INTAC exhibition, University of Arts, Osaka
2015 INTAC exhibition, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto
2014 Selected students' exhibition, Off Photo Festival, Bratislava
2014 INTAC exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 4x5"2G+, ORI, Berlin
2021 Wanderkamera, 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2020 Wanderkamera-Online-Performance, Kollektiv Artes Mobiles, Leipzig/Berlin
2019 My Bare Self, Atelier Meerkatze, Bonn
2019 Wanderkamera, Bucht der Träumer Frankfurt Oder, Galeria Illuza Garbicz, Meeresrauschen Festival Peenemünde, Chaos Communication Congress Leipzig, Independent Photo Fair Berlin
2018 Face Galaxy, Galeria Illuzja, Garbicz
2018 10-second-sin, 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2017 Off site, Kós harbor, Greece
2017 My Bare Self, public installation at Eden Terrace, Auckland
2015 Wohnzimmer#1, T.r.i.q, Berlin
GRANTS & AWARDS
2017 Les Boutographies de Montpellier, shortlisted for Édition 2017, Montpellier
2016 Studio Vortex, selected for Artist Residency with Antoine d'Agata, Arles
2016 Young Talent Award, granted by PIC Professional Imagers Club, Düsseldorf
2014/15/16 Scholarship for research on environmental change, granted by Subzero/University of the Arctic, Oulanka
ASSISTANCES
2016 Analogue Fine Art Printing Lab, Jochen Rohner, Berlin
2015/16 National Geographic Magazine, Photo assistance for Robin Hammond, Berlin
2015 Institute for Artistic Research, University of Europe, Berlin
SELECTED ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
2022 Transitions. Protestkulturen und digitale Welten im Wandel, Deutschlandfunk (6.2.)
2022 Museum für Photographie "Transitions", Radio Okerwelle | Pandora – Kulturmagazin (3.2.)
2022 Poesie statt Plakativität, taz (1.2.)
2022 Foto-Ausstellung "Transitions": Protestkulturen im Fokus, NDR Kultur (31.1.)
2022 Die ganz reale Abrissbirne, Braunschweiger Zeitung (28.1.)
2022 Poetischer Protest, Der Spiegel (22.1.)
2021 Giovani artisti in arrivo di Lipsia, Giornale di Sicilia
2020 UPLOAD: DOWNLOAD, Blog der Bildredaktion Ostkreuzschule
2019 Lippenbekenntnis, Writing About Fashion
2019 Weiblichkeit jenseits von Tabus, Generalanzeiger Bonn
2018 #UncensoredBerlin – eine Ausstellung gegen die Zensur von Nacktheit in den Sozialen Medien, imGegenteil.de
2018 Unzensiert: Diese Ausstellung hat eine wichtige Message, iheartBerlin
2018 UNCENSORED Berlin: iheartBerlin's new exhibition challenging social media censorship, iheartBerlin
2018 Uncensored Berlin: Unsere Ausstellung gegen Zensur auf Sozialen Medien, BLONDE Magazine
2018 Sexuelles Selbstbewusstsein - Hallo Welt, hier Vulva, ZEIT Online
2017 These Beautiful Photos Reveal the Last Taboo in Art Nudes, VICE New Zealand
2016 Portrait of Sky Deep, Siegessäule, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Interview with Australian Punk Rocker Jen Cloher, Transnational Queer Underground
2017 DISPOSABLE, online photo publication for VISCERAL8
2017 New Beginnings, anthology as part of the "New Kiwi Immigrant Women Write" program
2016 ECHO, foreword to the issue, Replika Magazine
2016 The Comfort of a Tree's Shadow, article in the publication "Visualizing Environmental Change"
EDUCATION
Since 2021 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig: Diplom-Klasse für Fotografie und Bewegtbild Prof. Tina Bara
2020 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin: Seminar Ina Schoenenburg
2017-2018 Universität der Künste, Berlin: Klasse Prof. Nathalie Bredella
2014-2016 Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule: BA Photography
2008-2011 Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen/Université Paul-Valery III Montpellier: BA Moderne Fremdsprachen, Kulturen und Wirtschaft
NETWORKS
Kollektiv Artes Mobiles
MEDfaces - Rostres de la Mediterrània (Greece / Germany)
INTAC - International Art Collaboration (Berlin, Seoul, Toronto, Prag)
Studio Vortex by Antoine d'Agata (France)
SubZero/University of the Arctic - Visualizing Environmental Change (Finland, Germany, Norway, Canada, South Korea, Iceland)
Professional Imagers Club (Germany)