Jan Kopp (artist)

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Jan Kopp (born May 26, 1970, in Frankfurt/Main, Germany) is a German visual artist. He has lived in France since 1991.

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Overview

After graduating in 1996 from National School of Fine Arts of Paris / École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts/, France, he became assistant to the artists fr:Jochen Gerz and fr:Esther Shalev Gerz. In 1997 he co-founded the independent art-space GlassBox in Paris, one of the first artist-run-spaces in the French capital.[ citation needed ] Jan Kopp has been in several international artist-in-residence programs such as PS1/Moma [1] with the Clockwork 2000: P.S.1 & Clocktower National and International Studio Program 1999-2000 [2] in New York and Hors les Murs/Institut Français in Brazil with "Niemeyer dancing, playing with modernity, run the streets" as a subject of his residence [3] in 2014.

Work

Jan Kopp uses different medias – drawing, [4] sound, video, sculpture, performance, - without favoring one or the other. [5] He resists to any temptation of specialization or classification. His works can be small drawings or large-scale installations such as Soulever le monde, [6] [7] created for the Children's gallery of Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2015 or Grand Ensemble' for the Contemporary art center La Criée in Rennes, France. [8] In the most of large-scale installations, the visitor can take part of the work by touching or making in movement one element of it or only by this presence. For instance Das endlose Spiel / The Endless game challenges the visitor as to the nature of both his role and his participation: he can take part in this interplay of tension between the visible and the sensory only by making his way along the ellipse of "Das endlose Spiel's" platform. [9] As Gaétane Lamarche-Vadel said, Kopp shares with Kawamata inclinations for simple materials, economic, common, clear paths, the incompleteness of the work, make a collective. [10]
Most of times, he uses many everyday objects to speak to everyone by putting them out of their usual context. By this move we can see the world differential, the artist says. [11] Jan Kopp seeks to create artworks which don't reveal themselves in one glance. They could appear in one way to the visitor then show a different side or give new meanings another day. The visitors don't see the same thing. [12] The artist is always in a position to create links between art, territory and society. A major exhibition was devoted to him at the Maubuisson abbey (Val d’Oise, France) in 2011. Le Tourniquet (2011), [13] the fruit of an experiment on the drawing medium, can be visited in three places, the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, at Fresnoy in the group exhibition Visions fugitives and at the FRAC Alsace for Affinités déchirures & attractions. [5]
In 2015, Jan Kopp, was selected to develop an artistic research in Mulhouse (France) and Kassell (Germany) on the topic of immigration, social memory and expressions of living together in the city. He worked closely with civil society actors, academics and cultural Mulhouse.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Public collections

Bibliography

Monographs

Collectif catalogs and books

Pièces montrées - Frac Alsace, Musée de la Ville de Strasbourg, Fondation Fernet-Branca, textes d’Olivier Grasser,..., 184 pages, 2013 Théâtre des expositions 3 : Il retro del manifesto - Académie de France à Rome – Villa Medicis, avec les oeuvres de Katinka Bock, Ulla von Brandenburg, Laurent Montaron,...., 92 pages, 2013

Question d'artistes - interview with Alain Berland : "Une production en négatif", Collège des Bernardins, Paris

Collection - Musee d’art contemporain de Lyon, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2009

4 AM - quatre ans d'art à la Maréchalerie - La Maréchalerie - Centre d'art contemporain et Archibooks + sautereau éditeur, 87 pages, 2008

F.I.S.Co. - Today is ok, Éditions - Xing, 2007 The Lost Moment - Bik Van der Pol, 2007

Only Connect - Ramade B., Froger G., Goudinoux V., Renau O., Balau R., Isthme éditions - Art Connexion, Dec. 2005 Singuliers - Musée d'Art du Guangdong, 2005

Projet Cône Sud - FRAC Ile de France et FRAC Poitou Charente, 2004 Cosmique Bled Ou des corps mobiles dans l'espace – Ateliers des Arques -Musée Zakdine, Paris, 2004 I need you - Centre PasquArt Kunsthaus Centre d'art, Bienne, Suisse, 2004

Ateliers 19972002 - Centre national de la photographie, p. 30-32, 2002 True Truth about the nearly Real - Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (4th International Summer Academy), 2002

Connivence - Biennale de Lyon, 2001 Paysages d'entre-villes - Paris, Musée Zadkine, 2001 Clockwork 2000 - New York, PS1, 2000

La Ville, le jardin, la Mémoire - Rome, Villa Médicis, 2000

Entre fictions - Arles, Actes Sud, 1998

Contes à rebours - Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Jahreskatalog, 1998

Caravan 96 - Taegu, 1996

Monument et modernité - Paris, Délégation aux Arts Plastiques - Ville de Paris, 1996

Traces sonores - Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1995

Traces 12 - Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1993

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