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
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...