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Bob Jones works across photography, installation, and performance. With a focus on portraiture, her practice examines photography as a space of physical and technological negotiation. Rather than treating images as fixed representations, she focuses on the conditions of their production, exploring how visual systems shape and continuously renegotiate subjectivity and identity.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS​

2026 (upcoming) 587 Blitze, Fotografiska Museum, Berlin

2025 587 Blitze, A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig

2024 Beyond me, Galerie im Tempelhof Museum, Berlin

2022 Re-envisioning the Screenshot, Auckland Festival of Photography

2021 4x5"2G+, ORi Gallery, Berlin

2019 My Bare Self, Atelier Meerkatze, Bonn

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie, awardees exhibition, Landesmuseum Koblenz

2025 Pre, Present and Post Photographic Images, Satellit, Bielefeld

2025 Diploma exhibition, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2025 States of Uncertain Domesticities, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin

2024 Un_erhört. Wie sich die Vulva heute Gehör verschafft!, Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie im Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

2024 Analysis of Anger, Zentrale für Kunst, Spinnerei, Leipzig

2024 Flucht in die Öffentlichkeit, f/stop Festival, Timonhaus, Leipzig

2024 Keep Your Eyes Peeled, AFF Galerie, Berlin

2024 Vertebrale, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin

2024 And it goes back and forth, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2023 Reflex & Reflexionen, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2023 9. Merck-Preis, nominees exhibition, Darmstadt Days of Photography, Mathildenhöhe

2022 19. Kunstpreis des Haus am Kleistpark, nominees exhibition, Haus am Kleistpark Berlin

2022 Transitions. Protestkulturen und digitale Welten im Wandel, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig

2021/22 System Failed, interactive AI performance, Kollektiv Artes Mobiles, Schaubühne Lindenfels & Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden

2021 Arcipelago, Minimum Gallery, Palermo

2021 What I Desire, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin

2021 Luftlinien Hermannplatz, 48h Neukölln, Berlin

2020 Behind Walls, 48h Neukölln, Berlin

2018 Image Spaces: Biology and Building, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin

2016 Visualizing Environmental Change, Subzero Network, Kuusamo

2015 A Double-edged Sword, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin

2015 Privilege and Emotion, Trans.Inter.Queer, Berlin

2014 INTAC exhibition, Off Photo Festival, Bratislava

 

CURATED EXHIBITION

2022 How to Dwell in Paradox, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (as part of the conference Any | One Day the Future Has Died)

 

GRANTS & AWARDS

2026 gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie, award winner

2023 Merck-Preis, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, nominee

2023 Luxembourg Art Prize, honorable mention for artistic achievement

2017 & 2023 Les Boutographies de Montpellier, shortlisted

2022 Kunstpreis des Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, award winner

2021 Neustart Kultur, Berlin, project grant

2016 Studio Vortex by Antoine d’Agata, Arles, selected for artist residency

2016 Young Talent Award, PIC Professional Imagers Club, Düsseldorf, award winner

2014–2016 Visualizing Environmental Change Residency, Subzero Network, University of the Arctic, Oulanka, travel grant

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2025–2026 Lecturer at Sommerakademie für Bildende und Darstellende Kunst, Marburg

2024 Visiting lecturer at Städelschule, Frankfurt

 

JURY ACTIVITY

2023 Jury member, Kunstpreis des Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin

 

FURTHER ACTIVITIES

2025 Portfolio reviewer, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2022–23 Member of the Study Commission, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2017 Assistant, VOIES OFF Portfolio Reviews, Arles

2017 Assistant, Outsider Art Festival with Stuart Shepherd, Auckland

 

SELECTED ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

2024 Bob Jones: Beyond me, L’Œil de la Photographie, Paris

2024 Das Außen verkommt zur Statue - Bob Jones in der Galerie im Tempelhof Museum, art-in-Berlin

2022 Digitale Bilder außer Kontrolle: Gewinnerin des 19. Kunstpreis steht fest, Berliner Woche

2022 Künstlerin Bob Jones, eine selbstgebaute 4x5 Großformatkamera und der LomoGraflok, Lomography Magazine, Wien

2022 Transitions. Protestkulturen und digitale Welten im Wandel, Deutschlandfunk

2022 Poesie statt Plakativität, taz, Berlin

2022 Poetischer Protest, Der Spiegel

2020 UPLOAD: DOWNLOAD, Blog der Bildredaktion Ostkreuzschule, Berlin

2019 Weiblichkeit jenseits von Tabus, Generalanzeiger Bonn

2018 UNCENSORED Berlin: iheartBerlin's new exhibition challenging social media censorship, iheartBerlin

2018 Sexuelles Selbstbewusstsein - Hallo Welt, hier Vulva, ZEIT Online, Berlin

2017 These Beautiful Photos Reveal the Last Taboo in Art Nudes, VICE New Zealand

PUBLICATIONS

2024 Whispering Bird Song, photo book by the Women* in Photography NZ/AU community

2017 DISPOSABLE, online photo publication for VISCERAL8

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EDUCATION

2025 Diploma in Fine Arts, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2021–2025 Photography and Moving Images in the class of Prof. Tina Bara &

Photography and Media in the class of Prof. Ines Schaber, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

2020–2021 Photography Seminar in the course of Ina Schoenenburg, Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie

2017–2018 Guest Semester at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the course of Prof. Nathalie Bredella

2014–2016 Bachelor of Arts in Photography in the international class of Prof. Walter Bergmoser, Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule

2011 Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages, Cultures and Business Administration, Justus Liebig University Gießen

2008–2011 French and English Literature and Linguistics, Justus Liebig University Gießen & Université Paul Valery III de Montpellier

COLLABORATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS

Saloon, Berlin (since 2024)

Women* in Photography NZ/AU, Wellington (2023)

bbk Berlin (since 2023)

ArtesMobiles, Leipzig (2018–2021)

INTAC - International Art Collaboration, Berlin (2014–16)

WANDERKAMERA COMMISSIONS

City of Marburg, Museen Tempelhof-Schöneberg Berlin, f/stop Festival Leipzig, Twentysix Gallery & Women* in Photography NZ Wellington, Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln, Computer Chaos Congress Leipzig, Haus des Wandels Heinersdorf, Fusion Festival Lärz, Garbicz Festival Garbicz, Bucht der Träumer Festival Peenemünde, Queer Summer & Winter Market Kreuzberg, Silent Garden Rixdorf, Monopol Leipzig and many more...

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