Jannes Bürkner,

born 22. August 1991 in Braun­schweig, Ger­many, is a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary artist, current­ly work­ing in Gronin­gen, Nether­lands.

News

Upcom­ing: Group show at Kun­st­po­dum T, Tilburg, 07.02.19 — 03.03.19, together with Paul Segers, Jacco Borggreve, Paul Nieboer, Tina Jer­anko

Exhibitions

2018 Een Schop onder De Ploeg, Groninger Forum, Gronin­gen; Ern­stig Geschikt!, Studio Omstand, Arnhem; Head­lin­ers Grad­u­a­tion Show, Suikerunie, Gronin­gen; Domes­tic Vio­lins, Bedumer­weg, Gronin­gen; 24 Hour Res­i­dency, Kun­sthuis SYB, Beet­sterzwaag;

2017 _Loop / Pool,_SIGN, Gronin­gen; Tents, Machine­fab­riek RAW, Gronin­gen; Jan­u­ary Expo, Acad­e­mie Min­erva, Gronin­gen

2016 De Osloos, EMG Fak­tors, Gronin­gen; Golden her­ring exhi­bi­tion, Acad­e­mie Min­erva, Gronin­gen

2015 High Inten­sity dis­or­der, Acad­e­mie Min­erva, Gronin­gen

2014 Art Garage 3, EMG Fak­tors, Gronin­gen; Art Garage 4, EMG Fak­tors, Gronin­gen

Education

2014 — 2018 Fine Arts, Bach­e­lor, Acad­e­mie Min­erva, Gronin­gen

2013 — 2014 Graphic Design & Illus­tra­tion, Acad­e­mie Min­erva, Gronin­gen

contact

info@jannesbuerkner.com

Statement

Through mate­r­ial explo­ration and the empha­sis of cir­cum­stan­tial phe­nom­ena his works often play with the tip­ping point of famil­iar­ity. He com­pares traces of decay and growth and is intrigued by their resem­blance, so the end of a prod­uct often trig­gers a process and even his own cre­ations move in a con­stant state of recy­cling. Found objects and mate­ri­als are ana­lyzed and trans­formed based on their char­ac­ter­is­tics, cre­at­ing a dis­tance from their orig­i­nal func­tion and invit­ing the viewer to ques­tion the per­cep­tion and rela­tion towards it.

Driven by curios­ity the work­ing process is exe­cuted in an intu­itive manner, work­ing partly de- and con­struc­tive. Being in con­trol but leav­ing space for coin­ci­dences to occur imple­ments the ele­ment of chance, express­ing a feel­ing of unpre­dictabil­ity and uncer­tainty.

While being fas­ci­nated by organic struc­tures and processes, but also con­fronted with the man-made ones, most of his play­ful exper­i­ments result in a jux­ta­po­si­tion of nature and indus­try, high­light­ing their effects on each other.

Shots

  • Nature,

    dimensions: Variable; materials: digital scans of black and white negatives.

  • Humans in Nature,

    dimensions: Variable; materials: digital scans of black and white negatives.

  • Structures,

    dimensions: Variable; materials: digital scans of black and white negatives.

  • Scenes,

    dimensions: Variable; materials: digital scans of black and white negatives.

Sculptures

  • Inside a tree trunk,

    dimensions: ca. 0.5 m³; materials: wood.

    A tree trunk is hol­lowed out by a fire lit inside of it. Sand grains were shot at high pres­sure in the bowl to remove soft wood layers and caus­ing a greater dis­tance between the growth rings.

  • Bin bag,

    dimensions: ca. 80 x 70 x 50 cm; materials: construction foam, aerosol, pillow, pillow case.

    A black shape arranged on a white pillow appears to be solid and frag­ile on the same time. The sur­face resem­bles the tex­ture of common garbage bags and trans­forms from a volume into a flat form.

  • Construction,

    dimensions: ca. 1.5 x 1.2 x 0.6 m; materials: wood, silver-gelatine prints on concrete, steel rods.

    A block of oak which got split vio­lently in two parts sus­tains two pho­tograhic prints on broken con­crete pieces. One image shows four con­struc­tion work­ers posing aligned in one ver­ti­cal line on a scaf­fold, where as the second one high­lights the over­lay of struc­tures found on the build­ing site. One con­crete piece is kept up by a steel rod which also appears to tra­verse and con­nect the logs, but as a matter of fact just links the convex and con­cave ele­ments of a grow­ing branch back together.

  • Inhabitants,

    dimensions: ca. 50 x 35 x 35 cm; materials: wood, construction foam, mealworms, ink, aerosol, polyurethane.

    A dam­aged log of wood with a miss­ing piece of bark accu­mu­lates a col­or­ful mass which only appears to grow on the bare parts of wood. This mass seems to exist in a dual­ity between organic and syn­thetic matter and con­notes signs of life as well as death.

  • Gold bar on wooden wheel,

    dimensions: ca. 85 x 80 x 45 cm; materials: wood, concrete, aerosol.

    Wood work­ers left a slice of a tree trunk behind in a forest whose con­di­tion dis­plays traces of vio­lence and decom­po­si­tion. The object stands on its round side and lacks a layer of bark on the top. A golden bar whose shape and tex­ture resem­bles the one of another tree is bal­anced on top and sub­sti­tutes the miss­ing piece.

  • Corrosion on concrete,

    dimensions: ca. 60 cm³; materials: concrete, steel, iron.

  • Painting - upcycling,

    dimensions: ca. 40 x 60 x 40 cm; materials: concrete, canvas, ink, aerosol, lacquer, acryl.

Installations

  • Habits & Habitat,

    Ernstig Geschikt!, Studio Omstand, Arnhem; Site-specific installation; materials: mixed media.

    An instal­la­tion deal­ing with living spaces and cus­toms.

  • Sinnentleerung / Pile,

    Headliners Graduation Show, Suikerunie, Groningen; Site-specific installation; materials: mixed media.

    A site-spe­cific instal­la­tion which sac­ri­fices past art­works in order to create a new one. Fin­ished cre­ations were taken back into the mate­r­ial stage and trans­formed into a scenery resem­bling the one of a land­fill. A diverse range of prod­ucts, strange in their own appear­ance but par­tic­u­larly in this con­stel­la­tion are united in the form of a pile, which merges sep­a­rate enti­ties and forms a sense between them.

  • 24 hour residency,

    Site-specific installation; Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag; materials: mixed media.

    Col­lab­o­ra­tion with Sophia Löwe.
    During the 24 hours in the res­i­dency organic and domes­tic mate­ri­als were gath­ered. While the nat­ural ones were found in the nearby forest, inhab­i­tants were invited to bring waste prod­ucts which were meant to be dis­carded anyway. The selec­tion of goods and the given time frame set a cer­tain limit phys­i­cally but also inspi­ra­tionally. By con­fronting the accu­mu­lated matter asso­ci­a­tions were made in order to trans­form the known into some­thing fur­ther away from func­tion­al­ity and famil­iar­ity.

  • Garbage repitition,

    Loop / Pool at SIGN, Groningen; dimensions: Variable; materials: concrete (original: steel bowl, trash).

    Molds of a small trash­bowl are cre­ated con­sis­tently over weeks and casted in con­crete. The orig­i­nal form and use of material/​technique remains con­stant in this process, but the results differ not­i­ca­bly. The vari­a­tions of con­tent shape the final out­come equally as the work­ing atti­tude and con­di­tion while cre­at­ing each indi­vid­ual sculp­ture.

  • Camping,

    TENTS at Machinefabriek RAW, Groningen; dimensions: 2.5 × 1.5 × 2.5m; materials: concrete, textile, tent.

    A tent con­tain­ing two matresses entirely made out of con­crete.

  • Yellow,

    Loop / Pool at SIGN, Groningen; dimensions: 40 × 65 × 40 cm; materials: terrarium, light tube, towel, urine, agar-agar, sandwich bags.

    In a repi­ti­tion-inspired group show urine gets col­lected by sev­eral par­tic­i­pants. Each con­tainer got trans­formed into a solid state using agar-agar and refilled in sand­wich­bags or left with­out pack­ag­ing. During the time of the exhi­bi­tion vis­i­tors could observe the decay of the human waste.

2D

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 80 x 200 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 70 x 70 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 80 x 60 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 35 x 35 cm; materials: aerosol on wood.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 120 x 80 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 80 x 50 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 80 x 60 cm (x2); materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 50 cm (x3); materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 60 x 50 cm (x3); materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Untitled,

    dimensions: 120 x 100 cm; materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • Oasis,

    dimensions: 80 x 60 cm (x3); materials: mixed media on canvas.

  • HID 2,

    dimensions: 244 x 366 cm; materials: mixed media on MDF.

  • Jungle,

    dimensions: 65 x 50 cm; materials: mixed media on framed wood.

  • Delta,

    dimensions: 150 x 100 cm; materials: mixed media on whiteboard.

  • Burnt wood,

    dimensions: 100 x 60cm / 200 x 100cm; materials: intaglio print on etching paper.

2D/3D

  • Organic / Artificial,

    dimensions: 75 x 95 x 15 cm; materials: canvas, construction foam, tree bark, silicone, ink, aerosol.

  • Worms,

    dimensions: 25 x 40 cm / 40 x 60 cm; materials: construction foam, mealworms, ink, aerosol, polyurethane, wooden frame/construction foam, mealworms, ink, aerosol, polyurethane on framed canvas.

  • Builder painting,

    dimensions: 1.5 x 0.6 m; materials: wooden frame, MDF, concrete, asbestos, moss.

  • Photo - upcycling,

    dimensions: 60 x 100 cm; materials: RC paper, epoxy resin, acryl, aerosol.

Photographic Works

  • Surrounding prints on a fallen tree,

    dimensions: ca 1.8 x 1.5 x 1.5 m; materials: kallitype photogram on tree stub.

    The largest tree in a public park gets logged, there­fore enabling sur­round­ing flora to ben­e­fit from the addi­tional light in­cidence. In order to visu­al­ize this par­tic­u­lar cor­re­la­tion the tree log got coated with photo­sensitive Kalli­type emul­sion. Ele­ments of nearby plants were arranged in a 360° angle and ex­posed with the first rays of sun­rise.

  • As long as I’m walking,

    dimensions: 4 x 3 m; materials: darkroom chemistry on RC paper.

    An instal­la­tion trans­lating the move­ment of view­ers into a two-dimen­sional pho­towork using tra­di­tional dark­room chem­istry. Before tra­versing a space, par­tic­i­pants are con­fronted with two liq­uids affect­ing their foot­steps in oppos­ing ways. While walk­ing through the instal­la­tion each con­tact results in an imme­di­ate reac­tion with the sur­face.

  • Woods,

    dimensions: ca. 30 x 20 cm; materials: silver-gelatine print on wood.

  • Above,

    dimensions: 100 x 50 cm; materials: silver-gelatine print on tin roof material.

  • Curtains,

    dimensions: 74 x 54 cm; materials: black and white photogram on RC paper, framed.

  • Industry,

    dimensions: 30 x 20 cm; materials: silver-gelatine print on concrete.

  • Chemigram,

    dimensions: 1.20 x 1.20 cm; materials: black and white print on RC paper.

  • Photo on canvas,

    dimensions: 2 x 1.20 m; materials: silver-gelatine print on canvas.

    Manip­u­la­tion of photo print using hot water and bleach.

  • Timed landscape,

    dimensions: 40 x 40 cm; materials: black and white print on RC paper, framed.

    Image show­ing photo paper at dif­fer­ent stages of devel­op­ment.

  • Water / Fire,

    dimensions: 40 x 40 cm; materials: silver-gelatine print on coated steel.

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