Moritz Jekat visual artist
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Moritz Jekat
Moritz Jekat is a visual artist hailing from the vibrant intersection of Berlin and Lausanne, whose practice spans the mediums of computer-generated imagery, sculpture, and installation. With a distinguished BA in Visual Communication from Potsdam under their belt, Jekat has since gone on to further refine his craft as a participant in the esteemed Master program of Photography at ECAL with their 2023 MA-diploma in Renens/Lausanne, Switzerland.
At the core of Jekat’s practice lies an incisive exploration of contemporary developments within "western" society, with a particular emphasis on the role of identity and digital culture. Investigating the themes of co-existence, cohabitation, and the multiplicity of ideas that converge in shared spaces, Jekat’s work often draws on his own immediate surroundings before expanding outward to explore broader universal truths and experiments with re-kin-ing, vulnerability and collaboration as artistic practice and interprets the artistic process as a labratory for future togetherness of species and beings. Leaning into the fields of relational aesthetics and collective art practice, Jekat explores in this the intersections between human experience and technological advancement, with computer-generated imagery and the use of AI serving as powerful tools in their artistic arsenal.
(text by Matteo Bittanti)
Berlin, GERMANY
info(at)moritzjekat.de
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Education
2023 – Master of Arts "Photography" with distinction – ECAL (Lausanne, CH)
2018 – Bachelor of Arts "Communication Design" with distinction – FH Potsdam (Potsdam, GER)
2010 – Bachelor of Arts "Commercial Economy" – Stenden Hogeschool (Emmen, NL)
Awards, Nominations, Scholarships & Projects
2024 – DA Z Digital Video Award 2024
2021 – Nominated C/O Berlin Talent Award
2021 – DAAD Scholarship "Masterabschluss Bildende Künste"
2019 – WINNER UNSEEN DUMMY AWARD 2019 – "Non ya"
2019 – SHORTLISTED KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2019 – "Non ya"
2018 – "Best graduation work FHP 2018" – "Non ya"
2016 – Participant art project TRAFO WEISSWASSER – in collaboration with „BIWAQ“
2015 – Participant photo project TRAFO – in collaboration with „Kulturstiftung des Bundes“
Latest talks
2024 08 31 – XR WIP Pitching Session presented by Swiss Immersion Venice Immersive
La Biennale di Venezia 2024 – IT
2023 11 08 – Swiss Interactive Session Geneva Digital Market
Geneva International Film Festival 2023 – CH
Exhibitions
2024 – (G) – Orchestrating Empathy – Kan Contemporary – Berlin, GER
2024 – (G) – Crimes of Carelessness – Villa Heike – Berlin, GER
2024 – (G) – Monitoring – 41. Kasseler Dokfest – Kassel, GER
2024 – (G) – Converging Elements – Culterim Gallery: Backshop – Berlin, GER
2024 – (G) – Making Light of Every Thing – Centre de la Photographie Geneve – Geneva, CH
2023 – (G/O) – Are you for real. Rituals of Nascent Worlds – IFA, The Wrong Biennale – GER
2023 – (G) – Exhibition ECAL Diplomas 2023 – ECAL, Lausanne – CH
2023 – (G) – Summer Show 2023 Young International Positions – Kang Contemporary – GER
2023 – (G) – Dissecting Globality – F2 Fotofestival 2023 (Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund) – GER
2023 – (S/O) – VRAL – Milan Machinima Festival – Milan, IT
2023 – (G) – Photo Schweiz – Halle 550 – Zürich, CH
2022 – (G) – Won Syat – ECAL – Lausanne – CH
2022 – (G) – Won Syat – Platform L – Seoul – KOR
2022 – (G) – Next! Festival der jungen Photoszene – MAKK – Köln – GER
2022 – (G) – I'm pretty cool but I cry a lot – UJZ Glocksee – Hannover – GER
2021 – (G) – In Search of Identity – F2 Fotofestival 2021 – Dortmund/Herne – GER
2021 – (G) – Inside – PH Museum Lab – Bologna – IT
2020/21 – (G) – Eleven: Artists of Gallery – Kang Contemporary – Berlin – GER
2020 – (G) – Keep your Eyes peeled VI – AFF Galerie – Berlin Art Week – Berlin – GER
2019 – (G) – Der Greif x Berlin Photo Week Print Exhibition – Berlin Photo Week – Berlin – GER
2019 – (G) – Photobook Exhibition Tour (Kassel Dummy Award 2019):
RAW Phototriennale – Worpswede – GER
Officine Fotografiche Roma – Rome – IT
Photobook Week Aarhus – Aarhus – DEN
Fotopia Collective Festival – Cluj-Napoca – ROU
Encontros da Imagem – Braga – PRT
Istanbul Photobook Festival – Istanbul – TUR
Photoireland Dublin – Dublin – IRL
IED Madrid – Madrid – ESP
Kassel Buch, Kulturbahnhof – Kassel – GER
2019 – (G) – Fusion of Evidence – Kang Contemporary – Berlin – GER
2019 – (G) – 8 Room Gallery – 8 Room Gallery – Berlin – GER
2019 – (S) – Non ya – Tribes.Convo – Berlin – GER
2018 – (G) – Applaus 2018 – Fachhochschule Potsdam – Potsdam – GER
2018 – (G) – Politiken des Design – Kunstraum Potsdam – Potsdam – GER
2017 – (G) – Neue Tradition – Objekte Unserer Tage – Berlin – GER
2017 – (G) – Trafo – Interim Festival – Schwäbische Alb – GER
2016 – (G) – Trafo Weiswasser – Stadt Weisswasser – Weisswasser – GER
2016 – (G) – Über Land – Kulturstiftung des Bundes – Halle a.d. Saale – GER
Features & Publications
A Corner with, (O)
Aint-Bad Magazine #14, (P)
Aint-Bad Magazine Online, (O)
British Journal of Photography, (O)
Der Fluter #67 #69 #70, (P/O)
Fototreff Berlin,
(O)
Katalog F2 Fotofestival, (P)
Ignant, (O)
INSIDE, (P)
Kaltblut Magazine, (O)
Musee Magazine, (O)
MYP Magazine, (O)
Ordinary Magazine – Tampon, (P)
Photographic Museum of Humanity, (O)
Spiegel Start, (O/P)
The Opera Magazine V, (O/P)
this ain't art school, (O)
Unseen Amsterdam (O)
Impressum
AGB
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