Jens Kull was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1975. After studies of ethnology and philosophy he left his hometown at the age of 22 to live in Mexico City where he studied photography and developed a particular way of observing urban space and people.

 

With sequenced photography, video compositing and video installation, Jens Kull plays with new and well-established technologies aiming at disclosing different angles of realities and possibilities, shifted in time and space.

 

Gabriel Santamarinas words: "The spark of man’s fleeting existence, sleeping on his electric bed, is displayed in Jens Kull’s objects for cosmic self exploration." (>>more)

 

Private and public contemporary art collections such as Colección FEMSA and the Jumex collection in Mexico have purchased his works.

 

In 2004 he received the INTERNATIONALER/MEDIEN /KUNST/PREIS in Karlsruhe and his work was purchased by the Monterrey Biennale FEMSA in 2007.

 

His works have been exhibited in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, France, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Russia, Chile, Brazil, U.S.A. and Mexico.

 

Currently he is one of few contemporary artists of Mexico's oldest gallery, the "Galeria de Arte Mexicano - GAM", founded by Ines Amor and Diego Rivera in 1936, opening paths to new media and video

Solo Exhibitions:

2010

Corn Flake in a Fish Tank

Open Studio Project

 

Latest works. Shift Space Gallery, WSU

Wichita, Kansas

 

2008

LEFT OVERS. Video and Video-Installation. Galeria de Arte Mexicano (GAM),

Mexico City.

 

2006

TUBED. Video and Sculpture. “Traeger & Pinto Arte Contemporaneo”,

Mexico City.

Group Exhibitions:

 

2010

"TRAYECTOS: PAISAJE Y MEMORIA"

Contemporary Art of the FEMSA COLLECTION, Villahermosa, Tabasco.

 

"ALTERNA 2010"

Group intervention, Mexico City

 

"HABITAR: NO AUTORIZADO"

Group intervention, Mexico City.

 

2009

"Tanto Para Nada"

Colective show, Mexico City.

 

"Conjugaciones" • FEMSA Collection,

Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Curated by Miriam Kaiser

 

“Objeto y Narración” • FEMSA Collection,

Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.

 

Colective P.I.B. “La Central” Gallery, Centro Nacional de las Artes,

CNA, Mexico City

 

Colective P.I.B. “La Esmeralda” Gallery, Centro Nacional de las Artes,

CNA Mexico City

 

No place to hide, Kunsmuseum Skive, Denmark, curated by Kassandra Wellendorf.

2008

 

Works of art with a minimum of steel, Gallery of Mexican Art (GAM), Mexico City. Curated by Edgar Orlaineta.

 

Salón de otoño, Collective show byTraeger & Pinto Arte Contemporáneo,

Mexico City

 

Phenoma. Live Group intervention P.I.B, Mexico City

 

Tiempo presente. La Estación Contemporary Art, Chihuahua, Mexico.

 

Game Over. Emilia Cohen Arte Contemporáneo. Mexico City.

 

Tiempo recuperado. Emilia Cohen Arte Contemporáneo. Mexico City.

 

VIII Bienale FEMSA, Monterrey, Jesús Gallardo Gallery, León Guanajuato

 

Elefante Negro. Schwarzer Elefant. Museum Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, Mexico City.

 

Renacer. Presente imperfecto. Emilia Cohen Arte Contemporáneo. México D.F

2007

 

MUNAL Nacional Museum of Art, Diego Rivera

“Grafico Hipergrafico”, Interactive video installation, Mexico City.

 

2nd Festival CITYpulse, Santiago de Chile, Chile

 

VIII Bienale FEMSA, Monterrey, Ex Colegio de San Ildefonso. Mexico City.

 

100 Years “les demoiselles d’avignon”,

“Traeger & Pinto Arte Contemporaneo”, Mexico City.

 

VIII Bienale FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico.

MACO, Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery of Mexican Art (GAM)

2006

 

Galeria 13, welcome to the circle, Mexico City.

 

Sentido y presencia. Colaboration with Álvaro Castillo.

Gallery of Mexican Art (GAM), Mexico City.

 

“Nice 2 meet U”, Group Exhibition, Galeria 13, Mexico City.

 

“VideominutiPOP/One World, one minute Video Show, Prato, Italy.

 

Oneminutefestival Aarau, One-Minute Video Show, Aarau, Switzerland

 

CITYPulse, Video muestra, Nimes, France

 

2nd Arte Scienza, Video muestra, Rome, Italy

 

Entremultimediale, Video muestra, Prague, Check Republic.

 

Respeto Total. One Second Video Show, Barcelona, Spain.

 

“Zoo”, Group Exhibition, Traeger & Pinto Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

 

“Noass World Video Art”, Riga, Latvia

 

“International/Media/Art/Award 2004” T.V show, Karlsruhe, Germany

Awards

 

2004

Winner of the “International/Media/Art/Award 2004” Karlsruhe, Germany.

Public Collections

 

2008

Fundacion/Colección Jumex

2007

VIII Bienale FEMSA, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.

Publications and Projects

2010

Lecture and Student Critics @ WSU, Wichita, Kansas, comissioned by Dr. Royce W Smith.

2009

"LEFT OVER" & "NUMB PULSE", the Flipbooks 2x30 Ex. 150 pages.

Workshop “You can run or leaving traces” Kunstmuseum Skive,Denmark,

with David Rokeby, Morgens Jacobsen and Kassandra Wellendorf.

2008

“STILL” the Flipbook, 150 Pages. 30 Ex.

2008

MÉXI QUE? Arts & Identites conference, University IBERO Mexico City

2008

Canal40: Expresión libre. Interview

2007

Canal40: Programa “Capital”. Interview “The still project”