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. Bob Jones' photo and video works subvert assigned body and gender roles to acknowledge diverse shifts and shades of identity. Her research focus has been on algorithmic power systems which she juxtaposes with analogue processes to analyze transitional and transformational settings of social interaction.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Die Nominierten des Kunstpreis Haus am Kleistpark stellen aus, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2022 Re-envisioning the Screenshot, exhibition and artist talk, Auckland Festival of Photography
2022 Transitions. Protestkulturen und digitale Welten im Wandel, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
2021/22 System Failed, Interactive AI Performance with Kollektiv Artes Mobiles,
Schaubühne Lindenfels, Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, Zollverein Essen
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
2018 #UNCENSOREDBERLIN, iHeartBerlin/Blogfabrik, Berlin
2018 MEDfaces Rostres de la Mediterrània, Erfurt, funded by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
2018 Ship of Tolerance, Kunsthalle 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 Screening, Arles
2015 A Double-edged Sword, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
2015 INTAC exhibition, University of Arts, Osaka
2015 INTAC exhibition, Contact Photography Festival, Toronto
2014 INTAC exhibition, Off Photo Festival, Bratislava
2014 INTAC exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 4x5"2G+, ORi Gallery, Berlin
2019 My Bare Self, Atelier Meerkatze, Bonn
Since 2018 Wanderkamera, Bucht der Träumer Frankfurt Oder, Galeria Illuza Garbicz, Meeresrauschen Festival Peenemünde, Chaos Communication Congress Leipzig, Independent Photo Fair Berlin, 48h Neukölln & online
2018 10-second-sin, 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2017 Off sight, public installation at Kós harbor, Greece
2017 My Bare Self, public installation at Eden Terrace, Auckland
2015 Privilege and Emotion, Trans.Inter.Queer, Berlin
GRANTS & AWARDS
2022 Shortlist Kunstpreis Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2017 Shortlist Les Boutographies de Montpellier, Montpellier
2016 Selected for Artist Residency Studio Vortex by Antoine d'Agata, Arles
2016 Young Talent Award by PIC Professional Imagers Club, Düsseldorf
2014/15/16 Scholarship Visualizing Environmental Change by Subzero/University of the Arctic, Oulanka
ASSISTANCES
2017 VOIES OFF Portfolio Reviews, Arles
2017 Outsider Art Festival with Stuart Sheperd, Auckland
2016 Analogue Fine Art Printing Lab of Jochen Rohner, Berlin
2015/16 Photo assistance for Robin Hammond & National Geographic Magazine, Berlin
2015 Institute for Artistic Research, University of Europe, Berlin
SELECTED ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
2022 Künstlerin Bob Jones, eine selbstgebaute 4x5 Großformatkamera und der LomoGraflok, Lomography Magazine
2022 Transitions. Protestkulturen und digitale Welten im Wandel, Deutschlandfunk
2022 Museum für Photographie "Transitions", Radio Okerwelle | Pandora – Kulturmagazin
2022 Poesie statt Plakativität, taz
2022 Foto-Ausstellung "Transitions": Protestkulturen im Fokus, NDR Kultur
2022 Die ganz reale Abrissbirne, Braunschweiger Zeitung
2022 Poetischer Protest, Der Spiegel
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
PUBLICATIONS
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 (International Program), Klasse Prof. Walter Bergmoser
2008-2011 Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen/Université Paul-Valery III Montpellier: BA Moderne Fremdsprachen, Kulturen und Wirtschaft
COLLABORATIONS
NIE-Theater, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
Haus des Wandels, Heinersdorf
Lato Meio Residency, Leonidio
Seawatch 1, Ägäis
INTAC - International Art Collaboration, Berlin, Seoul, Toronto, Prag
Professional Imagers Club, Neuss