Jörg Paul Janka

Jörg Paul Janka (born September 4, 1965 in Duisburg ) is a German visual artist .

Stiftmeister's glances, film, 39 min. 2015

Life

Janka studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1988 to 1994 in the class of Bernd and Hilla Becher . From 1991 he was enrolled as a guest student at the Ruhr University Bochum with Vilém Flusser on the subject of communication and photography. After completing his art studies in 1995, he and Uschi Huber, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Stefan Schneider published the photo magazine Ohio . Since 1999 Janka has been the sole editor of this magazine with Uschi Huber. Since then he has been internationally active as a media artist with his own work. In recent years he has also been artistically active in cooperation with Joerg Zboralski . He lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Exhibitions

2019 D-Poytop. Art from Düsseldorf, a. a. with Heinz Hausmann , Ulrich Hensel , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2018 When the medium becomes routine - Questioning photography now , u. a. with Thyra Schmidt , The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary ART (GCA) in Chongqing, China
2017 Save Our Errors , with Martin Leyer-Pritzkow , Düsseldorf
2017 Save and not save , with Christian Konrad, Galerie Tedden, Düsseldorf
2016 The typological view - exhibition for Hilla Becher in the photographic collection of the SK Stiftung Kultur , Cologne
2016 ZOOM , photo exhibition in the National Gallery of Tirana , Albania
2016 With Different Eyes , Kunstmuseum Bonn / Photographic Collection of the SK Foundation Culture , Cologne
2016 With different eyes , Kunsthalle Nürnberg
2016 Acting right at the wrong time , with Christian Konrad, Galerie Tedden, Düsseldorf
2015 Brothers Fratelli , with Christian Konrad, Galerie Tedden, Düsseldorf
2015 Acting right at the wrong time , with Christian Konrad in the Caprigarage, Düsseldorf
2014 Another Place / Another Space / Together , exhibition at Leeschenhof, Düsseldorf
2014 Hauptsachen - The other face of the Düsseldorf Photo School , Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf
2013 Rendezvous in the specialist trap , with Stefan Linberg, Birkenstrasse, Düsseldorf
2013 Of valleys and gorges , Stoffeler Strasse, Düsseldorf
2011 The Artistic Framework , Wilhelm Exhibition Space, Düsseldorf
2010 exhibition room , Stoffeler Strasse, Düsseldorf
2009 annual exhibition of art from Neuss , Kulturforum Alte Post of the city of Neuss
2008 Parking garage in the Kunsthalle , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2008 10 paintings , Gallery Smoev Dollmann, Duisburg (with Joerg Zboralski)
2008 Boutique Union (swept clean), gallery in the Atelierhaus Goldstrasse, Duisburg (with Joerg Zboralski)
2006 Capribatterie , art transfer Düsseldorf - Naples, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Joerg Zboralski)
2006 Capribatterie , Fondazione Morra, Naples (with Joerg Zboralski)
2006 Feierabend , gallery Bochynek Dusseldorf
2006 Globus Dei , Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop - (with Joerg Zboralski)
2006 Capribatterie Fondazione Morra, Naples (with Joerg Zboralski)
2005 First name: Lügen - Last name: Baron , Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
2005 Messages from civilization , multi-storey car park in Malkasten , Düsseldorf
2005 Kunst Jetzt , Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheidt
2005 work house , Kunsthaus Dresden
2004 The publication 'Liegen Lassen' was published in October
2004 Responsible: Those responsible , Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
2003 swept clean Galerie Bochynek, (with Joerg Zboralski), Düsseldorf
2000 200 slides Johanneskirche, Düsseldorf
2000 Click photographs by artists, Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
1999 NON STOP FILMSHOW Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
1997 Area 51 Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
1996 Something Else Exmouth Market, London

Publications (selection)

Ohio Photomagazine, since 1995
Let lie - workers' drawings, ed. Jörg Paul Janka and authors, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89770-226-6

Filmography

2016 [STUDIO THEATER 4] [ZWIESELER WINKEL] Full HD Color Running time: 9 min, National Gallery Tirana (Albania)
2015 [STUDIO THEATER 3] [STIFTMEISTERS BLICKE] Full HD Color Running time: 38 min, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2015 [STUDIO THEATER 1] Full HD Color Running time: 15 min, Benedictine monastery, Düsseldorf
2013 [KLEINKRIMINELLE & NIXTUER] Full HD Color Duration: 10 min, Photo Weekend, Düsseldorf
2013 [STUDIO THEATER 2] [2. HAMBURGER SCHALTUNG] Full HD Color, running time: 48 min, National Gallery Tirana (Albania)
2012 [EMPIRE PARADISE] Full HD Color Running time: 15 min, Festival Blick, Recklinghausen
2007 “Güntherstrasse” A film with Claudius Wachtmeister, Duisburger Akzente, Duisburg
2006 “DIE MIETE SELBER” film, 54 min, Black Box, Düsseldorf
2005 [THUNDER & SHANGHAI] DVD Color, running time: 15 min, Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
2005 [METTMANN CITY] DVD Color, running time: 20 min, with Xénia Imrová, Lüdenscheid
2002 [DIE HEIDELBERGER] audio sculpture CD running time: 60 min, Galerie Mini, Duisburg
1995 [YURI YARA & RON WHITE IN DÜSSELDORF] DVD Color, running time: 20 min, Malkasten (artist association)
1995 [KING OF THE THIEVES] DVD Color, running time: 10 min, Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
1994 [DAN UP] DVD Color, running time: 20 min, Duisburg-Hafen

Together with Uschi Huber:

2013 [Ohio # 17] DVD Color, running time: 33 min, Glasmoog, Cologne
2012 [BRIGHTNESS 1000] DVD Color, running time: 16 min, (Huber & Janka), Bremen Überseehafen
2009 [Ohio # 16] DVD Color Running time: 42 min
2007 [Ohio # 15] DVD Color, 15 min, exhibition, "Found & Shared", Photographers Gallery, London
2005 [Ohio # 13] DVD Color, running time: 35 min, exhibition, "Curating the Library", deSingle, Antwerp
2004 "Out of Print", various videos, International Project Space, UCE Birmingham
2000 [Ohio # 9] DVD Color, running time: 30 min, Photobiennale, Rotterdam
2000 [Ohio # 8] DVD Color, running time: 30 min, NGBK-New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin
1999 [Ohio # 7] DVD Color, running time: 45 min, "Yesterday was today", Stadthaus Ulm

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personal data
SURNAME	Janka, Jörg Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th September 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Duisburg