Jarik Jongman About

A former assistant of Anselm Kiefer, Jarik Jongman (Amsterdam, 1962) uses both his own photographs and anonymous pictures found at flea markets, in books, magazines and on the internet, as a starting point for his work.

He studied at the art academy in Arnhem and has exhibited regularly in the Netherlands and abroad, including in Berlin, London, New York, Jerusalem, and twice at collateral events of the Venice Biennale, in 2009 and 2011.

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In 2017 he won the Luxembourg Art Prize.

In 2012 he was shortlisted for the John Moores prize, exhibiting at the Liverpool Biennial.

In 2010 he won joint first prize for best artist at the UK National Open Art Competition, juried by Gavin Turk.

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Recurring themes in his work include: metaphysics, transience, history and the human condition. 

Many of these works involve architecture in some form: motel rooms,

waiting rooms, dilapidated buildings, usually devoid of human presence,

often provoking feelings of nostalgia and contemplation, sometimes adding a hint of the miraculous or super-natural.

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