Bob Jones 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.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 (upcoming) fstop Festival für Fotografie, Leipzig
2024 (upcoming) Keep your eyes peeled, AFF Galerie, Berlin
2024 Salon des Refusées, KrautART, Berlin
2024 Solo exhibition Beyond me, Galerie im Tempelhof Museum, Berlin
2024 and it goes back and forth, Rundgangsausstellung der Klasse Bara, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
2023 Reflex & Reflexionen, an exhibition accompanying the conference membra(i)nes, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2023 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie: The nominees for the 9th Merck award 2023 exhibit, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
2023 Susurrations. Wanderkamera performance and workshop, an exhibition and event series by Women* in Photography NZ/AU in collaboration with Twentysix Gallery, Wellington
2022 HAK Lab: The nominees for the 19th art award of Haus am Kleistpark 2022 exhibit, 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
2021 Solo exhibition 4x5"2G+, ORi Gallery, Berlin
2020 Behind Walls, 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2019 Solo exhibition My Bare Self, Atelier Meerkatze, Bonn
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
Since 2018 Wanderkamera performance, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Twentysix Gallery Wellington, 48h Neukölln, Haus der Statistik Berlin, Silent Green Berlin, Chaos Communication Congress Leipzig, Bucht der Träumer Frankfurt Oder, Galeria Illuza Garbicz, Meeresrauschen Festival Peenemünde, Independent Photo Fair Berlin
2018 Solo performance 10-second-sin, 48h Neukölln Art Festival, Berlin
2017 Working Title, George Fraser, Auckland
2017 PIC Förderpreis Selected 2012–2016, Atelier Meerkatze, Bonn
2017 Solo exhibition Off sight, public installation at Kós harbor, Greece
2017 Solo exhibition My Bare Self, public installation at Eden Terrace, Auckland
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 Solo exhibition Privilege and Emotion, Trans.Inter.Queer, 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
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2022 How to Dwell in Paradox, exhibition as part of the conference Any | One Day the Future Has Died. Impossible Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 Nominee for the 9th Merck-Preis of the Darmstadt Days of Photography
2023 Honorable mention for artistic achievement, Luxembourg Art Prize
2023 Shortlisted for Les Boutographies de Montpellier
2022 Award winner of the Kunstpreis des Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2021 Project Fund by Neustart Kultur, Berlin
2017 Shortlisted Les Boutographies de Montpellier
2016 Selected for Artist Residency Studio Vortex by Antoine d'Agata, Arles
2016 Award winner of Young Talent Award by PIC Professional Imagers Club, Düsseldorf
2014/15/16 Scholarship Visualizing Environmental Change by Subzero/University of the Arctic, Oulanka
JURY ACTIVITY
2023 Jury for the Kunstpreis des Haus am Kleistpark Berlin 2023 with Barbara Esch-Marowski, Julia Rosenbaum, Christoph Tannert and Frank Jimin Hopp
ASSISTANCES
2022/23 Institut für Theorie, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
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 Digitale Bilder außer Kontrolle: Gewinnerin des 19. Kunstpreis steht fest, Berliner Woche
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
Women* in Photography NZ/AU, Wellington
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
