Katerina Jebb

Katerina Jebb
Born	(1962-11-15)15 November 1962 United Kingdom
Known for	Photography, scanography, film, photomontage
Website	https://katerinajebb.com

Katerina Jebb is a British contemporary artist whose work explores systems of classification, reproduction, and display, particularly within museums and archives. She is best known for her large-scale photographic works produced using flatbed and museum scanning technologies, which isolate and magnify objects from institutional collections, transforming them into highly detailed, monumental images. Jebb’s practice frequently engages with questions of authorship, originality, and the politics of representation. By employing scanning processes normally associated with documentation and conservation, she removes objects from their historical or cultural contexts and presents them as visual data, emphasizing surface, texture, and form. This method challenges traditional hierarchies between art object and reproduction, as well as the authority of institutional modes of seeing. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries and is held in several public and private collections. Through a sustained investigation of archival technologies and museum practices, Jebb’s art examines how knowledge is produced, mediated, and controlled within cultural institutions. ^[1]

Katerina Jebb, Eggs, 2013.

Technique

Katerina Jebb’s practice replaces the traditional camera with a high-resolution scanner to create life-sized, highly detailed images. ^[2] . The digital scanner operates through a precise mechanical and optical sequence that converts a physical object into a high-resolution digital image. The trajectory of the scanner refers both to the physical movement of its internal components and to the path of light and data during the scanning process. ^[3]


"I watched her scan the intricately hand-stitched, Nile-blue silk corset worn by Marie Antoinette in 1793. She made 21 passes, 12 for the front, nine for the back. The result, after adjustment in Photoshop, revealed minute details. Such perceptible, nearly touchable, clarity isn’t possible with a lens camera, but is ideal for museums that want to display objects too fragile for even short-term exposure. That clarity convinced the conservators of this garment to allow her to scan it in the first place."

Jeff Rian, Crossing Eros, Deus Ex Machina, Katerina Jebb, Musée Réattu, Skira, 2016 ^[4]

"In Jebb’s works, life overflows, immediately exceeds the frame the artist defines by means of the scanner through which she approaches, as closely as possible, the body of the woman posing. This woman is not a professional model; she is a friend, and it is from that intimacy that the nude emerges. From this bodily closeness—this body-to-body encounter—because Jebb herself is fully engaged in the pose. The effort does not rest entirely on the naked woman; the artist too must remain motionless, hold her breath, carry the scanner—several kilos—at arm’s length, one millimeter from the body around which she moves, holding the position for long seconds, then starting again, dozens and dozens of times."

Louise Chennevière, Katerina Jebb, Untitled Nudes, Semaine n.519, Immédiats, 2026

Katerina Jebb, Sharon Eyal, 2024.

Exhibitions

Museum Solo Exhibitions

• Musée Réattu, Arles, France, Deus ex Machina, Retrospective, 2016-2017 ^[5]
• V&A, London, Elizabeth Parker, 2021 ^[6]

Museum Group Exhibitions

• The Whitney Museum, New York, "The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style and Fashion" 1998 ^[7]
• Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, "Avantgarderobe, Kunst und Mode im 20. Jahrhundert" 1999 ^[8]
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France,"Still and Living Objects and Women", 2008
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France, "Chambre d'Echo", 2009 ^[9]
• Musee Bourdelle, Paris, Madame Gres, La Couture A L’oeuvre, Life Size Composite Scans, 2011, ^[10]
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France, Acte V, 2012 ^[11]
• MOMU, Antwerp, Belgium, Madame Grés Sculptural Fashion, 2012 ^[12]
• Palais de Tokyo, Paris, The Festival of Autumn, "The Future Will Last A Very Long Time" 2012 ^[13]
• Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, The Inventory of Balthus, 2014 ^[14]
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France, Oser la photographie, 2015-2016 ^[15]
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France, Rencontres à Réattu, 2017 ^[16]
• The Worthing Museum, Worthing, England, Isolation Chamber Vacation, 2017 ^[17]
• Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, L’istante e l’eternità. Tra noi e gli antichi, 2023 ^[18]
• Art Science Museum, Singapore, Laid Bare, Frida's Inner World, 2024 ^[19]
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France, Réattu Réinventé, 2026 ^{[20] [21]}

Gallery and Group Exhibitions

• Art Gallery of the General Council, Aix en Provence, France, curator Olivier Saillard, 2009 ^[22]
• Contemporary Art Space of Dudelange, Luxembourg, "Faire Peau de l'Inconscient" 2009 ^[23]
• The Barbican Centre, London, The Curve Gallery, video installation for Acne Studios 2009 ^[24]
• British Film Institute Southbank, United Kingdom, Birds Eye View Film Festival 2011, Simulacrum & Hyperbole, 2011
• La Chapelle Balthus La Rossiniere, Switzerland, Le Tablier De Balthus, Documentary Film & Life Size Composite Scans, 2011 ^[25]
• Vara Fine Arts VPL, New York, Second Skin, 2012, ^[26]
• Art Paris Grand Palais, Paris, Analix Gallery Geneva, 2012 ^[27]
• FIAC Hôtel de Miramion, Paris, Spot – Balice Hertling in collaboration with Nilufar and Giò Marconi Gallery, 2013 ^[28]
• The Balthus Foundation, Switzerland, Le Tablier de Balthus, 2014 ^[29]
• The Festival of Arles, Arles, France, L'Arlesienne, 2014 ^[30]
• Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, The Written Trace, 2015 ^[31]
• Transition Gallery, London, Isolation Chamber Vacation, 2016 ^[17]
• Dior Gallery, 7 Studies on Haute Couture, 2023 ^[32]
• L'Hotel, Paris, France, De Profundis Oscar Wilde, 2023 ^{[33] [34]}
• Giovanni's Room, Los Angeles, Language, Nudity, Smoking, 2024 ^[35]
• Sotheby's, Paris, Attention, Fragile !, 2024 ^[36]
• 7L Library, Paris, Language Nudity Protest, 2025 ^[37]
• Gallery Banane D'Or, Hyères, France, Blondes Of Your Childhood, 2026 ^[38]

Permanent Collections

• Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
• Musée Réattu, Arles, France ^[39]
• V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom ^[40]

Publications

Books

• The Warhol Look, Glamour, Style, Fashion, Mark Francis, Schirmer and Mosel Verlag, 1997 ^[41]
• Musée Galliera, Paris Haute Couture, Olivier Saillard et Anne Zazzo, (éditions Skira Flammarion, Sophie Laporte, 2012)
• Acne Paper, interview Professor Van der Kemp, 2012
• Purple magazine interview Olivier Zahm, 2013 ^[42]
• Deus Ex Machina, Katerina Jebb, exposition 2 juillet-31 décembre 2016, Musée Réattu / catalogue sous la direction de Pascale Picard 2016, ^[43]
• Volez Voguez Voyagez, Louis Vuitton Catalogue, Assouline, 2016 ^[44]
• Il Museo Effimero Della Moda, Catalogo della mostra, Palazzo Pitti, Marsilio, 2017 ^[45]
• Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018 ^[46]
• Corpus, Frida Kahlo par Katerina Jebb, Paris Musées / Palais Galliera, 2022 ^[47]
• L'istante e l'eternità. Tra noi e gli antichi, Museo Nazionale Romano, Electa, 2023 ^[48]
• Image d'Image, Katerina Jebb, Just An Idea Books, 2024 ^[49]

Editorial

• Purple Magazine #7, S/S 2007, Betony Vernon, Photography by Katerina Jebb, 2007 ^[50]
• Purple Magazine #18, Katerina Jebb: Photographer on Identity, interview by Olivier Zahm in Purple Magazine, 2012 ^[51]
• Purple Magazine #18, F/W 2012 issue 18, Accessories F/W 2012/13, Scanography by Katerina Jebb, 2012 ^[52]
• Purple Magazine #20, F/W 2013 issue 20, The Living Currency by Katerina Jebb, 2023 ^[53]
• Purple Magazine #21, S/S 2014 issue 21, Theatrical Tops, Scanography by Katerina Jebb, 2014 ^[54]
• Purple Magazine #21, S/S 2014 issue 21, The Inventory of Balthus, Artworks by Katerina Jebb, 2014 ^[55]
• Purple Magazine #26, F/W 2016, Marisa Berenson, Photography by Katerina Jebb, 2016 ^[56]
• Purple Magazine #33, The Brain Issue, Time to read, Text by Donatien Grau, Artwork by Katerina Jebb, 2020 ^[57]
• Lampoon Issue 21, Poetry of a Prototype, Disparate Prototype Plastic by Katerina Jebb, 2020

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• Purple Magazine #34, The Love Issue, Francis Picabia, special project by Katerina Jebb, 2020 ^[59]
• Purple Magazine #34, The Love Issue, Love Letters, Artwork by Katerina Jebb, collection Anne-Marie Springer, 2020 ^[60]
• Purple Magazine #34, The Love Issue, Gender, scanography by Katerina Jebb, 2020 ^[61]
• Lampoon Issue 22, The Commitment Issue, Katerina Jebb, 2020 ^[62]
• Purple Magazine #35, The Island Issue, Utopia Utopia, Artwork by Katerina Jebb, Text by Donatien Grau, 2021 ^[63]
• Purple Magazine #35, The Island Issue, Le Grand Chalet, Interview with Setsuko Klossowska De Rola by Olivier Zahm and Katerina Jebb, Photography by Katerina Jebb, 2021, ^[64]
• Lampoon Issue 24, The Honesty Issue, Chanel N°5 by Katerina Jebb, 2021 ^[65]
• Purple Magazine #42, The Magic Issue, High Jewelry by Katerina Jebb, 2024 ^[66]
• Purple Magazine #43, The Tokyo Diary Issue, Cover #3 by Katerina Jebb, 2025 ^[67]
• Purple Magazine #43, The Tokyo Diary Issue, Setsuko Klossowska portrait by Katerina Jebb, 2025 ^[68]
• Partners Issue 3, Why Be Together by Kawashima Takuhito, Family Of Man, Artworks by Katerina Jebb, 2025 ^[69]
• Purple Magazine #44, The Analog Issue, "Underground Press" by Katerina Jebb, 2025 ^[70]
• Purple Magazine #44, The Analog Issue, Sharon Eyal portrait by Katerina Jebb, 2025 ^[71]
• Gruppe #6, Rated R, Artworks by Katerina Jebb, 2025 ^[72]
• Purple Magazine #45, The New Glamour Issue, Glamour Royalty portraits of Charlotte Rampling by Katerina Jebb, 2026 ^[73]
• Alphabet - La Pausa de A à Z, Zeugma, Commissioned by Donatien Grau, 2025 ^[74]

Fanzines

• Katerina Jebb, Tilda Swinton, The Linguistic Cross Dresser, 2021 ^[75]
• Katerina Jebb, George Sand, Idiosyncratic Iconography, 2022 ^[76]
• Katerina Jebb, I've Been Trying To F*** My Career Up For Years, 2022 ^[77]

Katerina Jebb, Ladies Tights, 1996.

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External links

• L'Œil de la photographie  : l'Œil de la photographie, Arles 2016 : Katerina Jebb, Deus ex machina, écrit par l'Œil de la photographie, 06.07.2016
• French Vogue  : Visite guidée de l'atelier de Katerina Jebb: "On peut passer de Staline à Schiaparelli", written by Hugo Compain, 15.09.2016
• Wallpaper Magazine  : Katerina Jebb rips up the photographer's rule book, écrit par Daniel Thawley, 06.07.2016
• Another Magazine, A Delineation of Katerina Jebb's Exhilarating New Show, written by Professor Francis Hodgson, 15.09.2016