Overview

Jeff Weber (lives and works in New York and Berlin) develops a photographic practice that is experimental in a rigorous sense: it revolves around what he refers to as his attempt to create a personal epistemology, by exploring the contemporary conditions of the image.

The subsequent book An Attempt At A Personal Epistemology (Roma Publications, 2018) is the result of his longterm project Kunsthalle Leipzig. Established by Weber in 2012, the institution functioned as an extension of his photographic practice as well as a conceptual frame to invite others to actively participate. Here, the collaborative dimensions of Weber's practice explore the significance of these encounters with alterity and, in this sense, the essentially social dimension of photography as an epistemological principle. Rather than an isolated object, the photographic image is enmeshed in and emerges as a nodal point within a complex of social relations - interpersonal, artistic, material - and it is this set of relations that are crystallised in the image.

Biography

Jeff Weber is an artist based in New York. He situates his practice at the intersection of conceptual art and experimental cinema to critically engage with contemporary image regimes and their relation to issues of individuation. Photography enables him to move from one edge to the other, resulting in a body of work that incorporates 35mm film, technology, and the exploration of the relation of neuroscience to artificial intelligence.
Weber is the founder of the Kunsthalle Leipzig, a conceptual project in the form of an institution, which he established in 2012 as an extension of his photographic and filmic practice. The subsequent book, An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology / Kunsthalle Leipzig (Roma Publications, Amsterdam), was presented in 2018 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.
Solo exhibitions include Serial Grey at Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, Nimes, France (2021); Camouflage at lxbxh, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2020); and Mimetic Assimilation at Erna Hecey Gallery, Luxembourg (2019). His work has also been shown at Mudam Museum, Luxembourg; de Appel, Amsterdam; Foto Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland; Anthology Film Archives, NY; Microscope Gallery, NY; Belvedere 21, Vienna; and Casino – Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg.
Weber earned his MFA from the La Cambre art school in Brussels and was an artist-in-residence at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He received a research fellowship (2024-2026) from the Thinking Tools research group at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, NY, and is currently a lecturer at Parsons School of Design at The New School, NY.

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Jeff Weber, Image Storage Containers
Exhibition at Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (CNA), Dudelange, 2023




Jeff Weber, Serial Grey
Exhibition at Carré d'Art, Nîmes, 2021


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