Video | Installation

On the occasion of the Long Night of the Museums 2014" in Oldenburg, the Edith-Russ-Haus of Media Art is hosting a solo show of selected works by the Czech media artist Jakub Nepraš. With organic-looking forms, which appear like meta-organisms on transparent supports in the room and on the walls, he creates works of incredible complexity and structurality. Nepraš' expansive works will be shown at the Edith Russ House for one week.

Machine-like urban landscapes and structures, which on closer inspection are perceived as organic and at the same time partly figurative forms, convey the image of a system that extends to modern components of social coexistence such as technology, structure, communication and society.

With great visual intensity, Nepraš' works appear as if they want to engage visitors and open their awareness of their own identity within the complex structures. However, this awareness is never solely negative; the confrontation of each individual with the environment and its principles of order also wants to take a positive approach here.

Nepraš was awarded, among others, the third prize at the International Biennial for International Contemporary Art in Florence in 2007. He was born in Prague (Czech Republic) in 1981 and has already realized several solo, as well as group exhibitions worldwide, including France (2009, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Paris), Portugal (2009, Arthobler Gallery, Porto&Lisbon), Belgium (2011, Gallery Waldburger, Brussels), Switzerland (2013, Arthobler Gallery, Zurich) and Germany (2014, MaxmiliansForum, Munich). Jakub Nepraš is represented by ARTHOBLER Gallery.

Curator: Kathrin Jaumann