Jakob Urban

We are excited to introduce Jakob, a visual artist!

Jakob Urban (b. 1997 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Berlin-based artist whose practice revolves around desire and its forms. He explores the appropriation of queer artifacts in digital spaces and researches codified communications of intimacy in historical and contemporary cultures to develop an erotic method for processes of display and representation. With a conceptual approach to image making and an intimate relationship to spaces and their context, Jakob Urban explores the tensions and implications of being on display and being perceived.

He has worked on projects in, among others: BcmA Gallery (Berlin), 24Beaubourg (Paris), hinterconti (Hamburg), New Glasgow Society (Glasgow), Haus der Statistik (Berlin), Künstlerhaus Sootbörn (Hamburg), raum on demand/ Alte Münze (Berlin), ortstermin Moabit (Berlin), Galerie Vincenz Sala (Berlin), Galerie M (Berlin), Gebäude 501 (Berlin), Stiftung KalkGestalten (Cologne), Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße (Berlin), Akademie der Künste (Berlin), ABRACADABRA (Berlin), artspring (Berlin), roam (Berlin), 48H Neukölln (Berlin), QUO (Berlin), Kulturfabrik Moabit (Berlin), Freiraum im Studentenhaus (Berlin), Galerie du Crous (Paris), Post Post Cultural (Brussels)