05.05.2020

The open air exhibition "Sichten" that features my photograph "Woman at the Window" has been discussed on Bremen Radio Zwei, the local public radio station of the city of Bremen. The related article can be read here:

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https://m.radiobremen.de/bremenzwei/rubriken/ausstellungen/sichten102.html

05/05/2020

"Sichten" Article in local daily newspaper Weser Kurier:

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https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-kultur_artikel,-kunst-am-strassenrand-_arid,1910921.html

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05.05.2020 - 25.05.2020

„Sichten“ will be on display in public space in Bremen from 5 May 2020. A total of ten photographic positions from the Ruhr area, the Rhineland, Australia and Bremen will be presented in the form of City Light Posters along the Bremen bus and tram network.  The photographs by Björn Behrens, Axel Braun, Anja Engelke, Javier Gastelum, Jana Koelmel, Anne-Lena Michel, Christopher Muller, Stefanie Pluta, Pio Rahner and Hannah Wolf treat the view through the window with very different intentions. 

Already in Romanticism painting, a utopian or dystopian view of the world was drawn through the window. In the exhibition „Sichten“ the perspective of the photographer* becomes visible and encourages the viewer to compare it with his own visual experiences. With the presentation in the light boxes, an exhibition format is realised that functions barrier-free and in consideration of prescribed distance requirements. 

Artistic Director: Pio Rahner

Erlkönig

www.erlkoenigschau.tumblr.com

www.instagram.com/erlkonigschau

With thanks to the sponsors:

Senator für Kultur, Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung

and the sponsor: Wall GmbH

01.06.2019

Thanks to BBA Gallery, a selection of my pieces are now available on Artsy. Click on the link below to get to my profile and to follow me.

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https://www.artsy.net/artist/jana-kolmel

December 2018 - January 2019

Pleased to announce that I was invited to participate in an artist residency initiated by the inspiring team behind 'This is not a feminist project.' The residency will take place in Athens beginning of next year and is funded by NRW Kultur/Transfer International

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About the project:

»This is not a feminist project« is a multimedia online platform that presents the documented history of the Greek Women's Movement and showcases contemporary female stories via a living, digital archive/timeline. The platform incorporates a broad range of media, from audio-visual to digitised printed material.
 

As a segment of »This is not a feminist project’s« cultural/artistic activities, we would like to propose the realisation of an artists residency in collaboration with a selected female artist from North Rhine-Westphalia who works with new media and moving image, and is committed to engaging with diverse communities and exploring matters relevant to our initiative’s focus.

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Read more clicking on this link.

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15th June - 19th July

Pleased to announce that my piece "Serjoscha (Children's Bedroom) 2018" from the series Staged Photographs has been shortlisted for the Stanthorpe Art Prize and will be exhibited in their exhibition in Australia.

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Winners will be announced on 15th June during the Gala Opening. Wish me luck!

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About Stanthorpe Art Gallery

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Located in the heart of the Granite Belt Queensland, the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery tempts you to experience quality exhibitions of both national and local importance. An epicentre for all visual arts, the art gallery fosters a program of regional artist exhibitions and displays that are relevant to the history and character of the region.

The gallery, home to a permanent collection of almost 900 pieces, hosts specially curated exhibitions of traditional and contemporary paintings, works on paper, ceramics, sculpture, and fibre/ textile artworks.

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This strong collection of noted artists’ works, is sourced from acquisitions made during the biennial Stanthorpe Art Prize.

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http://www.srag.org.au/

31.10.2016

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04.11. - 26.11.2016

Jana Kölmel und Dennis Newie

MUA  Rhythms from Home

The exhibition „MUA” presents photographs and video works by Jana Kölmel & Dennis Newie. The center piece of the show is the documentary film „SAGER (South-Easterly Wind).” A film that tells stories on living between modern and traditional worlds, shot on Mua Island in the Torres Straits, Australia.

Opening: Friday, the 04.11.2016 at 7pm

Exhibition: 04.11. – 26.11.2016

Opening times:

Fr – Sat 5-7pm and by appointment

Contact:

janakoelmel@gmail.com

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LABOR

Ebertplatzpassage 5  

50668 Köln

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labor-ebertplatz.de

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27.09.2016

Jana Kölmel, Dennis Newie, Hans Ahwang

18:00 h

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The exhibition MUA is part of an exchange programme. I have invited Dennis Newie, director of the dance group ARPAKA together with the dancer Hans Ahwang to come to Cologne for an artist residency. On the night of the 27.09.16 they are performing a selection of their songs and dances, followed by a screening of my new film "SAGER (South-Easterly Wind)" that was shot on Moa Island.

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The preview takes place at LABOR Project Gallery, and the exhibition is scheduled for November.

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LABOR

Ebertplatzpassage 5  

50668 Köln

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labor-ebertplatz.de

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Dennis and Hans will then give a workshop to the people of Cologne starting on the 3rd of October. Information about the workshop: Facebook Event

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14.10.2016 - 15.01.2017

The exhibiton "Mit Anderen Augen" is travelling to Nürnberg in October this year. Lovely to see my work "Kaffeehaus" featured on the flyer for it's exhibition announcement for 2016.

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Opening: 13.10.16 20:00

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Check out Kunsthalle Nürnberg website for more information. 

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http://www.kunstkulturquartier.de

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09.03.2016

Since August last year, I have been working on a new film project that is invested in understanding indigenous cultures of Australia, focusing on contemporary indigenous dance practise. 

A scholarship by the NRW Culture Ministry funded my first three months here, and I just handed in my report (above figure) to them. I thought this was a good itme to share the progress of the project.

I was forunate to have been supported by Cairns Indigenous Art Fair in many ways. They have put me in touch with a range of dancers. 

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CIAF took me on another journey in the last few weeks. As part of their team, I went to Melbourne Fashion Festival, where CIAF was invited to present their Indigenous Fashion Performance. The show was curated by Grace Lillian Lee, fashion designer, in collaboration with Fiona Wirrer-George, choreographer and dancer. The show presented indigenous textiles and fashion designs of Far North Queensland, and was more than just a runway show. It was a beautiful merge of cultural song, dance and movements with contemporary music, in a contemporary fashion world context. 

This is a quick snapshot of the work I have done here so far. There has been a long phase of research beforehand, and this journey hopefully continues to take me on further adventures.

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fig. 01: Video Stills, CIAF Fashion Performance at VAMFF

25.02. - 08.05.2016

Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Mit Anderen Augen Sehen" im Kunstmuseum Bonn am 24.02.16 um 20 Uhr und in der SK Stiftung Kultur Köln am 25.02.2016 um 19Uhr. Die Ausstellung läuft vom 25.02. - 08.05.2016.

Meine Arbeiten "Kaffeehaus, 2011" und "Something to do with my Father, 2014" sind Teil dieser umfassenden Gruppenausstelllung zum Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie.

Opening of the exhibition "Through different Eyes - The Portrait in contemporary Art"

My works "Kaffeehaus, 2011" and "Something to do with my Father, 2014" will be on display as part of this comprehensive group show on the portrait in contemporary photography.

Kunstmuseum Bonn, 24.02.16 at 8pm

SK Stiftung Kultur, 25.02.16 at 7pm

The exhibition is on from 25.02. to 08.05.2016

For more information please visit the website: http://www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de

17th December '15 until February 2016

Two works of my photographic project "Staged Photographs" are on display at Metro Polanco Station in Mexico City. The exhibiton is part of the year of the UK in Mexico, supported by the British Council. The show is on until March 2016.

featuring works by

Eileen Cooper, Henry Hussey, Hannah Bays, James H. Robertson, Jana Koelmel, Stewart Geddes, Matt Ager, Paul Schneider, Jack Burton y Richard Lockett

curated by Javier Calderon

for more information visit: http://www.ukmexico.mx/events/entre-el-tren-y-el-anden

22.08.15 - 08.12.2015

A few months ago, I was lucky to be rewarded with a travel grant from the ministry of culture of North Rhine Westfalia (Germany) to spent four months in Australia. Here, I will be working on a project on indigneous dance, and contemporary indigenous culture in Australia. 

08.October 2015

Two photographic works out of the series "Staged Photographs" (Kaffeehaus 2011 & News 2010) are part of an auction of British Contemporary Art in Mexico, curated by Javier Calderon. 

Exhibition: 24.09.2015 - 07.10.2015

Auction: 08.10.2015, 8pm

Morton Casa de Subastas, Mexico DF

Link to the Catalogue: http://issuu.com/mortonsubastas/docs/catalogo_digital_britanico

21. - 15.10.2015

My film "Something to do with my Father" was selected to be screened at Naoussa International Film Festival in Greece.

The festival takes place from 21.10.-25.10.2015

http://www.niff.gr/en/

4th July 2015 - 7-9pm

Pleased to announce that I am showing new work as part of the Public Programme of "two hundred acres" taking place at Pumphouse Gallery & Battersea Park on Saturday, 4th July, 7-9pm.

Created in collaboration with dancer Sonya Cullingford, I will present an audio walk/performance called: Sag mir wo die Blumen sind. The performance takes place at The Subtropical Gardens in Battersea Park.

You will be able to download an audio track here before the show. Please bring your own headphones!

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two hundred acres

Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London
Opening Reception: 4 July, 7pm – 9pm

Open: 4 – 5 July, 11am – 7pm daily. Free admission

Cradeaux Alexander, Bea Bonafini, Gloria Ceballos, Jemma Egan, Liz Wilson, Mayra Ganzinotti, Sara Hibbert, Oskar Jakobsen, Melissa Lissy Kime, Jana Koelmel, Anna-Luise Lorenz, Genevieve Lutkin, Hanqing Ma & Mona Yoo, Bláithín Mac Donnell, Gail Mahon, Christina Mamakos, Patricia Mato-Mora, Neza Agnes Momirski, Josefina Nelimarkka, Suzie Norris-Reeves, Guy Oliver, Seth Pimlott, Jan Petýrek & Jelka Kretzschmar, Natalia Nat Skobeeva, Susannah Stark, Marco Strappato, Nils Alix Tabeling, Sara Vrbinc and Kyle Zeto

two hundred acres is an exhibition of artworks by current students and recent alumni at the Royal College of Art (RCA). Works will be exhibited at the Pump House Gallery and the surrounding Battersea Park, alongside which a public programme of performances, events and artist talks will be presented. Titled after the size of the park, this exhibition presents work both in the confines of the contemporary gallery, as well as the history-laden gardens, monuments, and sculptures of it’s vast 200-acre grounds.

two hundred acres has been produced by the Royal College of Art Students’ Union through an open call to the college’s students and alumni. The resulting exhibition showcases works by artists from a variety of disciplines including Ceramics and Glass; Design Interactions; Information Experience Design; Moving Image; Painting; Performance; Photography; Sculpture and Womenswear.

two hundred acres is supported by the Pump House Gallery, THE BLOCK andWandsworth Borough. The exhibition will coincide with the last weekend of the RCA Show 2015.

6th June 2015

My film Something to do with my Father was selected for CineDance'15 taking place at TripSpace Projects, on June 6th - 8pm.

http://www.tripspace.co.uk/event/114/cinedance15/

30.04. - 05.05.2015

Looking forward to take part in this year's Oberhausen Seminar, facilitated by curator Chi-hui Yang and filmmaker Marie Regan. 

"The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, in conjunction with LUX (London) and The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York), presents the second Oberhausen Seminar, which will be held during the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (30 April to 5 May, 2015). The Oberhausen Seminar is designed for international practitioners who work with moving images. "

http://oberhausenseminar.weebly.com/

28.04.2015

Look forward to this upcoming event. I was invited to give a dream group workshop during The Moon Week, organised by the Student Union at the Royal College of Art. 

"During our picnic, Artist Jana Koelmel will be leading a dream group - in which participants get together to share one dream each, and help each other interpret their dreams through re-enactment. Through different strategies and techniques based on Gestalt dream interpretation, we will explore the importance of dreams in relation to creativity and our work as artists and designers. Please bring one dream that you would be interested in sharing, and analysing."

http://rcasu.org.uk/wp/event/visit-to-the-royal-observatory-planetarium-2/

https://www.facebook.com/events/806995042723053/

21 February 2015

Follow the link to the interview, I did with Paul Wright from the Ham&High about life in West Hampstead, my favourite film and my new project of artist film nights in Kilburn. 

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/west_hampstead_photographer_jana_koelmel_cara_cosmic_film_club_1_3964856

22nd February 2015

My work is part of the next Sunday Screening. A new film night event, that I started organising at an independent venue in Kilburn. 

Please join me next Sunday at 5pm. More info: 

sundayscreenings.wix.com/sundayscreenings

My work Something to do with my Father will be part of this exciting group show, at the Function Room. Exhibiting artists include: Vesta Kroese, Gabriel Birch, and others...Save the date!

21.11.2014

Pleased to announce that Something to do with my Father will be screened at blicke.22 Film Festival in Bochum, Germany this month.

Please join us for the screening on the 21. November, 17:30.

Endstation Kino, Waldbaumweg 108, Bochum

Single Ticket: 6 €

www.blicke.org

October 25th - November 2nd

GRAND OPENING

Saturday 25 October 2-5pm

With drinks reception from 5-6pm

Kingsgate Project Space 

110-116 Kingsgate Road

London NW6 2JG

& sites around Kilburn

25 October - 2 November

Open every day 12-6pm

...Kilburn your world starts here

For eight days only, Kingsgate Project Space will be transformed into a local Tourist Information Office. On arrival, our friendly Tour Agents – a team of experts with a wealth of experience – will tell you about the exciting themed tours on offer.

With a tour to suit everyone, we are certain you will have a fabulous time. Not only will you learn about the area, you will also be treated to a number of ground-breaking site-specific ‘exhibits’ ranging from sculpture, performance, installation and video, all hosted in the diverse array of local shops.

Roll up! Roll up! Come and celebrate Kilburn High Road’s uniqueness before the inevitable onslaught of gentrification!

Artists include: Eleni Bagaki, Ting-ting Cheng, Mahana Delacour, Diego Delas, Marine Guichard, Jana Koelmel, Lucie Kordacova, Vesta Kroese, Chloë Morley, Thomas Owen, Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou, Joe Rogers, Alicia Roy, Mark Tamer and Yunsun Jung.

For more information visit:

www.youarehere2014.tumblr.com

Saturday, October 18th 2014

SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH

JUBILEE SQUARE 

Brighton, BN1 1GE 

7pm – 11pm

Opening speeches: 7pm

Pleased to announce that my image Drowned Mattress was selected by judge Esther Teichmann for the Night Contact open submission program, screened at Brighton Photo Biennal this year. 

An outdoor screen in Jubilee Square showing a programme of invited films and slideshows by Jason Fulford, John Maclean, Ben Rivers, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Isabelle Wenzel, Melanie Manchot, Aleix Plademunt and Rick Pushinsky.

The screen will also show the Night Contact open submissions project, in which photographers were invited to submit images in response to four different quotations. The judges - Thurston Moore (musician & writer), Esther Teichmann (artist), Rebecca Norris Webb (photographer & poet) and Anne Bourgeois-Vignon (Creative Content Director, NOWNESS) - have curated the entries into four individual slideshows, depicting a visual representation of the texts. The programme will loop at 8.15pm and 9.30pm.

http://www.nightcontact.co.uk/

27.09.2014

Baustelle Schaustelle

Videoabend - Videoscreening

19:30-20:30

My video piece Echo (2013) will be screened as part of a video screening at Bausstelle Schaustelle gallery in Essen. 

Brigittastrasse 9 - 45130 Essen

www.baustelle-schaustelle.de

June 18th - June 29th

Watch a preview of the three channel video installation "Something to do with my Father". A project by Jana Koelmel in collaboration with contemporary dancer, and choreographer Lauren Bridle. Together they've created a dance for camera, where two dancers translate inner landscapes into movement. The filming was set in two main locations in London: Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, a brutalist council housing estate, and a wooden raft floating in the middle of a lake. The video involves music compositions by Alberto Santamaría Lázaro, and a voice over by Aischa-Lina Loebbert.

The three screen video installation will be shown at SHOW RCA 2014, in Royal College of Art’s Moving Image Studio in Battersea, London. The show is open to the public from 18th June - 29th June.

Supported by:  JVC, NAC SOUND

13 March - 22nd March 2014

Come visit Battersea this week, and buy tiny postcard art on Saturday. I have mingled my cards in with the crowd, see if you can find them.

From the RCA Secret Website:

Stewarts Law RCA Secret is an exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized artworks, by internationally acclaimed artists plus up-and coming graduates from the Royal College of Art. It's your chance to get your hands on original works of art for a tiny price.This year's exhibition contains 2900 works by 1124 artists. The impressive lineup includes generous contributions from Yinka Shonibare, Jeremy Deller, Paula Rego, Quentin Blake, David Bailey and Grayson Perry, musician Jarvis Cocker, architect Zaha Hadid, fashion designers Sir Paul Smith and, head of Burberry, Christopher Bailey.With new work from hundreds of artists and designers, Stewarts Law RCA Secret continues to help emerging artists at a formative stage in their careers.

Opening Times Exhibition open: Thursday 13 March to Friday 21 March 2014, 11am-6pm daily (late opening until 9pm on 20 March only)

Sale open: Saturday 22 March 2014, 8am-6pm.

Admission Free

Venue

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART BATTERSEA Dyson Building, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN

23.02.2014

This is No Art - Affordable Art Line by Jana Koelmel

Pop - Up Art Show at Brick Lane Market

organised by Jihong Yeom from Passion Design.

Last weekend we designed a pop-up art show for Brick Lane Market. Disrupting the usual dynamics of the market with an artshow. The tourist crowd at the market seemed slightly irritated with the Fine Art Photogrpahs exhibited in our stall. Some came to have a closer look and asked curious questions, others just passed by not understanding what this was all about. All in all, an exciting opportunity, and experiment of how art is perceived in an environment where one wouldn't usually expect it. Thank you, Jihong Yeom, who came up with the idea, and was well dedicated into the realisation of this project. Looking forward to hearing from his next experiments.

Photo by: Stefan Angelo

January - February 2014

Editor's Note - Extract

—Syreeta McFadden

There’s a commonality we all share that we attempt to articulate from time to time, those moments where we feel a disconnectedness to communities and home. While arguably we are living in deeply fascinating times that to challenge and shift our definitions of connection, there is still this struggle with linking body and spirit to place. I thought about that struggle in the Jana Koelmel work, ‘Echo’,a beautiful video narrative that explores that blank space of connection between self, lover and the parent of lover, miles and miles away, but his breathing made known because of Skype, and how whole lives are lived in unison through computers. We get to explore this question even more acutely with Spike Jonze’s film Her, which supposes a world where intimate relationships between man and an artificially intelligent, intuitive operating system. Koelmel’s work in progress, ‘Something to do with my Father’, is an interdisciplinary work in dialogue with these same themes yet uses the medium of text, movement, image to process the tension between connection and disconnection.

November, 30th 2013

Royal College of Art photography at Splinter Art Fair, Independent Photography Fair.

November, 14th-17th, 2013

Press Release Salon Photo Off:

With this news edition, Photo Off confirm its aim: give the floor to engaged photography, representative of a sensitive and observant new generation, connected to the real. It is to learn, to discover with accuracy what’s happen, and to capture the transformation of the world. A search of the delicate and essential boundary between testimony and artistic gesture, the fair claim in this difference.

The Presence of a reknown school.The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university in London, UK. This is the only school in the world to offer post-graduate studies in the arts, design and communication. The photographic department’s students approach is that of artists who touch on the world through the photographic medium. We look forward to receiving a joint project specifically designed for Photo Off, where mingle videos, photos, installations, objects, etc. questioning societal issues. 

Exhibiting Artists:

Alix Marie, France

Dominic Hawgood, UK

Felicity Hammond, UK

Hemya Moran, Israel

Jana Koelmel, Germany

Katarina Hruskova, Slovakia 

Marco Sanchez Godoy, Spain

Martina Lindqvist, Sweden et Finland

Peter Watkins, UK et Germany

Petra Kubisova, Slovakia

Half Term, October 2013

Dance in Film workshops happened during the autumn term at Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, London. It is a project that is lead by artist & filmmaker Jana Koelmel and  freelance dancer, and co-founder of The People Pile, Lauren Bridle.

In the week long, hands on workshops, the participants were given an insight into the world of dance, filmmaking and storytelling. The two groups, a kids and teens group, with 20 kids, and a group of 6 adults each created their own short dance film.

This workshop aims to enhance communication and create a stronger community by giving the participants the chance to work together with a team of neighbours on a creation. It wants to give children and adults from a non-arts background the opportunity to engage with the arts personally, in this fun, creative and open way.

Visit the workshop's Blog

The workshops were supported by the Durham Wharf Foundation, ReachOut RCA, and the TRA Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate.