Bob Jones (Elisabeth Eichler) studied Literature in Montpellier and Photography in Berlin. As an artist, translator and writer she constantly moves places and exhibits all around the world. Bob's photos explore shifts and shades of identity. They are taken from a queer feminist perspective.
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Live photo performance at Independent Photo Fair Berlin, Berlin
2019 Solo exhibition "My Bare Self" at Atelier Meerkatze, Königswinter
2019 Solo live photo performance & exhibition "Face Galaxy" at Bucht der Träumer, Frankfurt Oder
2019 Solo live photo performance & exhibition "Face Galaxy" at Galeria Illuza, Garbicz, Poland
2019 Solo live photo performance & exhibition "Face Galaxy" at Meeresrauschen Festival, Peenemünde
2018 Solo live performance & exhibition "Face Galaxy" at Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig
2018 Group exhibition "#UNCENSOREDBERLIN" by iHeartBerlin at Blogfabrik Berlin
2018 Solo live photo performance & exhibition "Face Galaxy" at Galeria Illuza, Garbicz, Poland
2018 Public group exhibition in the central square of the city of Erfurt with MEDfaces Rostres de la Mediterrània, Funds: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Sprachcafé / Annegret Krüger, Erfurt
2018 Solo live photo performance & show at 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2018 Painting for Sea-Watch e.V. and Ship of Tolerance, Kunsthalle Rostock / Re-Edition of Biennale 2005, Venedig/Rostock
2018 Co-curation, analogue fine art printing & video installation for: "Image Spaces: Biology and Building", Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
2018 Group exhibition MEDfaces Rostres de la Mediterrània, Greek Embassy Berlin, Germany
2017 Solo public installation "Face Reality", Kós harbor, Greece
2017 Live Collaborative Writing Project: "Working Title", George Fraser, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 Solo exhibition at Eden Terrace in response to THE.BODY.LAID.BARE by TATE London and Auckland Art Gallery: "I lay my pussy bare", curator: Elijah Wright, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 Group exhibition at Atelier Meerkatze, Düsseldorf
2016 PIC Award Winner Exhibition, PHOTOKINA, Düsseldorf
2016 Group exhibition for SubZero - "Visualizing Environmental Change", Finland & Monaco
2016 Studio Vortex - screening of selected works: "Huis Clos", Arles, France
2015 Solo exhibition for Wohnzimmer#1, T.r.i.q, Berlin
2015 Group exhibition at Bethanien, Berlin
2015 Group exhibition at Osaka University of Arts, Japan
2015 Group exhibition at Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2014 Group exhibition at Off Photo Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Group exhibition at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
GRANTS & AWARDS
2017 Shortlisted for Les Boutographies de Montpellier, Édition 2017, Montpellier, France
2016 Selected for Studio Vortex Artist Residency with Antoine d'Agata, Arles, France
2016 "Young Talent Award" granted by PIC Professional Imagers Club, Neuss, Germany
2014, 2015 & 2016 Scholarship for research on environmental change granted by Subzero / University of the Arctic, Oulanka, Finland
ASSISTANCES
2016 Jochen Rohner - Analogue Fine Art Printing Lab, Berlin
2015/2016 Robin Hammond for National Geographic, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Transnational Queer Underground: "Interview with Australian Punk Rocker Jen Cloher"
2017 VISCERAL8 : online photo publication for the "DISPOSABLE" issue
2017 "New Beginnings" anthology - "New Kiwi Immigrant Women Write": 6 poems
2016 Replika magazine: foreword for the ECHO issue
2016 Visualizing Environmental Change publication: article "The Comfort of a Tree's Shadow"
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
2019 Writing About Fashion: article "Lippenbekenntnis"
2019 Generalanzeiger Bonn: exhibition review "Weiblichkeit jenseits von Tabus"
2018 imGegenteil.de: interview "#UncensoredBerlin – eine Ausstellung gegen die Zensur von Nacktheit in den Sozialen Medien"
2018 iheartBerlin: article "Unzensiert: Diese Ausstellung hat eine wichtige Message"
2018 iheartBerlin: article "UNCENSORED Berlin: iheartBerlin's new exhibition challenging social media censorship"
2018 BLONDE: article "Uncensored Berlin: Unsere Ausstellung gegen Zensur auf Sozialen Medien"
2018 ZEIT Online: article "Sexuelles Selbstbewusstsein - Hallo Welt, hier Vulva"
2017 VICE New Zealand: interview "These Beautiful Photos Reveal the Last Taboo in Art Nudes", by James Borrowdale
2016 Siegessäule Berlin: portrait for September issue
EDUCATION
2020 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie: Seminar Ina Schoenenburg
2014 - 2016 Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule: BA Photography
NETWORKS
Kollektiv Artes Mobiles - collaboration for Galeria Illuza (Poland / Germany)
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)