Jan-Holger Mauss

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Mauss in a crochet bikini, portrayed by Sabina Maria van der Linden

Jan-Holger Mauss (* 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German artist.

Life

From 1990 to 1995 Jan-Holger Mauss studied photography and fine arts at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Kilian Breier and Werner Büttner and in 1995 he received his diploma in visual communication with distinction. In his work, Jan-Holger Mauss deals with interactive performances in the art world and the relationship between commercial graphics, visual communication and sexuality. In his net bikini project, which has been running since the beginning of 2000, he has made himself available to renowned photo artists - wearing only a crochet bikini designed by the artist Eva Grubinger . In his series of works entitled ONS, Mauss processes offset and letterpress images: he erases the actors from the so-called DON porno magazines from the 1970s and in this way produces rooms, landscapes and objects that appear surreal, which through the etchings the meaning outside change their original context.

Trivia

Jan-Holger Mauss made a guest appearance under the stage name Holger-Jan Katz at a performance in the Hamburg scene club Hafenklang in the detective novel No Getting Through the Authors' Team Bohnet Pleitgen .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • ORIGINAL COPY , Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin 2014.
  • DON . On-site gallery. Vienna 2011.
  • Wild thing . Gallus Center Frankfurt a. M. 2010.
  • ROCK HARD , Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin 2009.
  • B2B and back again , Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin 2004.

Awards

  • 1993/1994 International Bleckede Scholarship from the State of Lower Saxony
  • 2010 Hamburg work grant for fine arts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artnews, 2010, CV of Jan-Holger Mauss  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 22, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / artnews.org  
  2. ↑ what is virtuoso? a blog for everyone who has the answer, July 31, 2007, Social virtuosity and contemporary art: B2B by Jan-Holger Mauss , accessed on August 26, 2013.
  3. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of April 21, 2004, Jan-Holger Mauss, the man with the bikini , accessed on August 21, 2013.
  4. ↑ TAZ of October 12, 2011, portrait of the photographer Kathrin Plessing , accessed on August 21, 2013.
  5. ^ Bohnet Pleitgen: No getting through (= Ariadne Krimi. Vol. 1183). Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86754-183-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Mauss, Jan-Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg