jakob ganslmeier

I am a photographer and filmmaker dismantling the visual representation of radical ideologies. In an era marked by the resurgence of extreme ideologies, I am interested in how visual arts can counteract radical political narratives and increase sensibility for social issues with conflicting perspectives.

about

awards, grants, residencies

  • 2024 Mondriaan Publication Grant
  • 2024 ZOZ Project Grant
  • 2024 Mondriaan Fund Artist Project Grant
  • 2024 Stroom Spot Grant
  • 2024 Winner (with Ana Zibelnik) of Kranj Fotofestival
  • 2024 ZOZ Academy
  • 2023 Spot Grant Stroom Den Haag
  • 2022 BBK Berlin Neustart Grant
  • 2022 Spot Grant Stroom Den Haag
  • 2021 shortlisted Kassel Dummy Award
  • 2021 ProfiFoto Young Talents Award
  • 2020 Blow Up Press | Shortlisted
  • 2020 Getxophoto | shortlisted
  • 2018 Lotto Foundation Young Talent Artprize
  • 2018 Studio Vortex Residency, Arles
  • 2018 Borderline Project | Exhibition, Residency
  • 2017 Photomatch, Fotofestiwal Lodz, Poland
  • 2017 shortlisted Joop Swaart Masterclass
  • 2016 participant of the NITs of the DOCfield>16 festival in Barcelona, Spain
  • 2016 shortlisted for the Kolga Photo Award 2016 Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 2016 nominated for Joop Swaart Masterclass
  • 2015 European Exhibition Award (Epea 03)
  • 2015 winner of competition "Blickkontakte" - Magazin Photopresse
  • 2014 mobile residency in Eastern Europe
  • 2013 Aenne Biermann Preis
  • 2012 Hil Award

exhibitions

  • 2024 Fault Line, with Ana Zibelnik, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (13.12.24 - 01.04.25)
  • 2024 Giga, with Ana Zibelnik, Foam Amsterdam (solo)
  • 2024 Haut, Stein, Public Enlightenment, Bärenzwinger, Kommunale Galerie Berlin (solo)
  • 2024 Fault Line, with Ana Zibelnik, Oslo Negativ Festival
  • 2024 Fault Line, with Ana Zibelnik, Kranj Fotofest, Kranj (solo)
  • 2024 Fault Line, with Ana Zibelnik, Art Rotterdam
  • 2024 A Mirrored Image, with Onias Landveld, University of Amsterdam
  • 2024 Fault Line, with Ana Zibelnik, Lausitz Festival, Muskau/ Mužakow
  • 2024 Public Enlightenment, screening Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus
  • 2024 Fault Line, Moving Arts Center, Amsterdam

  • 2023 Fault Line, Ana Zibelnik, Fotomuseum Den Haag (solo)
  • 2023 Redpilled. Gallery Nadan Berlin
  • 2023 If a Tree Fell in a Forest, Dokumentationszentrum Bergen-Belsen (solo)
  • 2023 Tempest, Verzasca Fotofestival, Gordola
  • 2023 Thingstätten, Deutsches Haus, New York
  • 2023 A Mirrored Image, screening at Stroom, Den Haag
  • 2023 Poetry Is Out of Place, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg (solo)
  • 2023 Lovely Planet: Poland, BWA Galeria, Zielona Gora, Poland
  • 2023 Trigger, Kulturmarkthalle Berlin

  • 2022 Poetry Is Out of Place, Falstad Centre, Commanders House, Norway (solo)
  • 2022 Haut, Stein, NS Documentation Centre, Cologne (solo)
  • 2022 Poerty Is Out of Place, Palastbar Zwickau (solo)
  • 2022 Haut, Stein, Politics in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Kraków
  • 2022 Lovely Planet: Polen, Parlament Brandenburg
  • 2022 Haut, Stein, Fotograf Festival Prague, Fotograf Gallery
  • 2022 Haut, Stein, Fotograf Festival Prague, VI PER
  • 2022 Lovely Planet: Polen, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 2022 Lovely Planet, Poland, Brandenburgisches Museum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus

  • 2021 Haut, Stein, Stéphane Hessel Platz, Weimar (solo)
  • 2021 Haut, Stein, Nikolaiplatz, Nordhausen (solo)
  • 2021 Haut, Stein, Villa Heinrichwerk, Ostritz (solo)
  • 2021 Bygone Nearby, Goethe Institute Ukraine
  • 2021 Thread, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

  • 2020 Haut, Stein, Zitadelle Spandau, Bastion Kronprinz (solo)
  • 2020 Haut, Stein, Dauerausstellung Ausstellung Zitadelle Spandau
  • 2020 Bygone, Nearby, Online Exhibition (www.bygone-nearby.co)
  • 2020 Parts-Unknown, online www.parts-unknown.co

  • 2019 100 Years Bauhaus, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus
  • 2019 Die Anderen sind wir, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst , Cottbus
  • 2019 Neo-Right, BWA Galeria, Zielona Gora, Poland
  • 2019 Haut, Stein, Werkschau, FH Bielefeld
  • 2019 Borderline Project, Palace, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2019 Borderline Project, European University, Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 2019 Borderline Project, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin

  • 2018 Lovely Planet: Poland, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus (solo)
  • 2018 Lovely Planet: Poland, Passerelle, Trigger, Villa Böhm, Neustädter Kunstverein (solo)
  • 2018 Lotto Brandenburg Kunstpreis, Kunstraum Potsdam
  • 2018 Lovely Planet: Poland, Westwendischer Kunstverein (solo)
  • 2018 Artist Residency exhibition by Studio Vortex, Gallerie Voiss Off Arles
  • 2018 Borderline Project, Club der polnischen Versager Berlin
  • 2018 Stadt Raum Portrait, aff Gallery, Berlin
  • 2018 Triennale of Photography, Hamburg, FHBFG Container
  • 2018 Lumix Festival Hannover, FHBFG Container

  • 2017 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 2017 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) Nobel Peace Center, Oslo
  • 2017 Biennale Le latitudini dell'arte Genova, Italy
  • 2017 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, vhs-Galerie, Konstanz
  • 2017 Wiesbaden Days of Photography, Art House Wiesbaden
  • 2017 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg
  • 2017 Fotowettbewerb der Hoepfner-Stiftung, Industrie- und Handelskammer, Karlsruhe

  • 2016 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) Villa Argentina, Viareggio, Italy
  • 2016 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
  • 2016 BUDE BETT BARGELD / LICHT UNSERER TAGE Ruhrtriennale Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
  • 2016 European Month of Photography at Mein Blau - FOG documentaries dispersed
  • 2016 "Clearly Ambiguous" at SMAC Gallery, Berlin

  • 2015 FOG excerpts, Kunsthalle Hannover
  • 2015 Deutscher Jugendfoto-Preis, Deutsche Historisches Museum, Berlin
  • 2015 Keep Your Eyes Peeled, AFF Gallerie, Berlin

  • 2014 Vice-Versa-Gallery, Berlin
  • 2014 SEZ - Abschlussausstellung Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin

  • 2013 Aenne Biermann Preis, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera
  • 2013 Projektraum, Berlin
  • 2013 dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
  • 2013 Goethe Institut Zagreb / Kroatien, Gallery Principij, Rijeka
  • 2013 Photographic Museum of Humanity
  • 2013 Heinrich Böll Stiftung (solo), Berlin
  • 2013 Synagoge Deidesheim (solo)
  • 2013 Hohenstauffensaal (solo), Anweiler
  • 2012 centre d'art passerelle, Brest France

  • 2011 Galerie Baustelle, Berlin

  • 2010 Paraty em Foco, Paraty, Brazil

teaching / workshops

  • Foam Amsterdam, Visual Compass, workshop
  • HTW University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, teaching
  • KABK, Photography BA, How to Thrive, workshop
  • Bärenzwinger Berlin, Visual Compass, workshop
  • Organ Vida, Visual Compass, Workshop
  • Fotografika Academy, St. Petersburg, lecture
  • HTW University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, workshop
  • BLMK Cottbus workshop about right-wing symbolism, workshop
  • KABK, Photography BA, individual mentorship
  • Buchenwald, Weimar, with streetworkers about rightextremism, workshop
  • Recife, Brazil, NGO Mira Sol, Workshop
  • Goethe Institut Ukraine, workshops in Marburg, Berlin, Beryslaw, Kiev, Kovel, Sumy, Warsaw, Bilgoraj and Glogowek

lecture / artist talks

  • Deichtorhallen Hamburg, artist talk
  • Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, artist talk
  • Kranj FotoFest, artist talk
  • Royal College of Art, London, artist talk
  • Undisciplining Photography in cooperation with Nederlands Fotomuseum, artist talk
  • Staffordshire University, lecture
  • Deichtorhallen Hamburg, artist talk
  • Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, artist talk
  • Körber foundation, Hamburg, artist talk
  • Foundation Gulbenkian, Paris, artist talk
  • Deichtorhallen, House of Photography, Hamburg, lecture
  • Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, artist talk
  • Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, lecture

published books

  • Lovely Planet: Poland, published by Edition Cantz
  • Thread, self published
  • Trigger, self published

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