Jeff Weber
(b. 1980 in Luxembourg, lives and works in Berlin)
Jeff Weber's photographic practice is experimental in a rigorous sense, revolving around what he refers to as his attempt to develop a personal epistemology. In his work he investigates the connection of the photographic image to the epistemological project of modernity, exploring the contemporary conditions of the image.
In 2014 he establishes the Kunsthalle-Leipzig, a project in the form of a gallery space, which works as an extension of his photographic practice and functions 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 crystallized in the image.
Jeff Weber holds a diploma (2010) from the La Cambre Art School in Brussels. In 2012, he was a resident at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. His work has been shown internationally including the De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam; the Casino - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg; Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago; the Interfood-Vitrine, Aachen; the Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Erna Hecey Gallery, Luxembourg. He has organized and curated numerous events, lectures, and projects at Kunsthalle Leipzig between 2014-2017. The book An Attempt At A Personal Epistemology is the result of his longterm project Kunsthalle Leipzig, an institution which worked as an extension of his photographic practice and functioned as a conceptual frame to invite others to actively participate. Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam.
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Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 1), 2019 -
Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 2), 2019
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Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 3), 2019
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Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 4), 2019
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Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 5), 2019
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Untitled (Neural Networks) (nn1_3d / 7), 2019
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Torso Studies (The Doryphoros of Polykleitos, Roman, After the Original, ca. 450 - 440 BC), 2015
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Snejanka and the Crystal, 2014
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Architectural Fragment of Gnostic Monastery, The Bawit Monastery, AD 385 - 390, 2014
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Untitled (Snejanka Mihaylova), Giza, Egypt, 2013
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The Lucifer of Liège (Guillaume Geefs, 1884), Cathédrale St. Paul, Liège, 2014
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Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church (The Hanging Church) Old Cairo, 2013
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The Pit, 2013
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Snejanka Mihaylova, (St. Barbara Church) (Portrait for the Exhibition Poster for “Meditations on the Cross”) Old Cairo, 2013
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Entrance Portal to Old Cairo, 2013
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Untitled (Coptic Limestone, ca AD 100-200), Coptic Museum, Old Cairo, 2013
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Jeff Weber
Mimetic Assimilation 27 Sep - 16 Nov 2019Erna Hecey is pleased to announce Jeff Weber’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Weber works primarily with the mediums of analogue photography and film. For Mimetic Assimilation, he is presenting two bodies of work: a group of photographs made as part of his long-term project Kunsthalle Leipzig and documented...Read more -
Group Exhibition
Thinking Ahead 24 Oct 2018 - 31 Jan 2019Erna Hecey is delighted to invite you to the inauguration of her new space in Luxembourg, with the group exhibition Thinking Ahead. 'Thinking means venturing beyond,' German philosopher Ernst Bloch wrote in his extensive study on utopianism, The Principle of Hope (written 1938-47). Starting from this notion of thinking ahead,...Read more
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Jeff Weber | Residency at Cité des Arts
October 2020 - January 2021 | Cité internationale des Arts, Paris January 25, 2021We are pleased to announce that Jeff Weber has completed a four-month residency at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris. During his residency in...Read more -
Jeff Weber | Camouflage
17 September - 24 October 2020 | lxhxb, Eindhoven September 9, 2020The lxhxb gallery in Eindhoven, Netherlands, will be hosting a solo exhibition by Jeff Weber entitled Camouflage from 13 September to 24 October 2020. 'The...Read more
