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.

Works
  • jeff weber_mimetic_assimilation_neural_networks_erna_hecey_untitled_2019
    Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 1), 2019
  • jeff weber_mimetic_assimilation_neural_networks_erna_hecey_untitled_2019
    Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 2), 2019
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 3), 2019
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 4), 2019
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 5), 2019
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 7), 2019
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Laocoon and his Sons), Vatican City, Rome, 2018
    Untitled (Laocoon and his Sons), Vatican City, Rome, 2018
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Derelict V by Howard Fried), Wattis Institute, San Francisco , 2016
    Untitled (Derelict V by Howard Fried), Wattis Institute, San Francisco , 2016
  • Jeff_Weber_Torso_Studies_2014
    An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, Torso Studies (The Doryphoros of Polykleitos, Roman, After the Original, ca. 450 - 440 BC), 2015
  • Jeff_Weber_Architectural_Fragment_of_Gnostic_Monastery_2014_Erna_Hecey
    An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, Architectural Fragment of Gnostic Monastery, The Bawit Monastery, AD 385 - 390, 2014
  • Jeff_Weber_Snejanka _and_the_Crystal_2014_Erna_Hecey
    An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, Snejanka and the Crystal, 2014
  • Jeff Weber_the lucifer_photograph_mimectic assimilation_erna hecey gallery
    The Lucifer of Liège (Guillaume Geefs, 1884), Cathédrale St. Paul, Liège, 2014
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, Entrance Portal to Old Cairo, 2013
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_saint virgin mary corpit
    An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church (The Hanging Church) Old Cairo, 2013
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, Snejanka Mihaylova, (St. Barbara Church) (Portrait for the Exhibition Poster for “Meditations on the Cross”) Old Cairo, 2013
  • Jeff_Weber_2013_The_Pit_photograph
    An Attempt at a Personal Epistemology, The Pit, 2013
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    Untitled (Coptic Limestone, ca AD 100-200), Coptic Museum, Old Cairo, 2013
  • jeff weber_mimetic assimilation_exhibition erna hecey_untitled
    Untitled (Snejanka Mihaylova), Giza, Egypt, 2013
  • Jeff Weber, Image Storage Containers (Anticipative Images), 2012
    Image Storage Containers (Anticipative Images), 2012
  • Jeff Weber, Image Storage Containers (Anticipative Images), 2012
    Image Storage Containers (Anticipative Images), 2012
  • Jeff Weber, Image Storage Containers (Anticipative Images), 2012
    Image Storage Containers (Anticipative Images), 2012
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
    Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
    Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
    Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
    Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
    Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
  • Jeff Weber, Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
    Untitled (Operation Ivy, Mike), 2011-2013
Video

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


Exhibitions
Press
Publications
News