Roman Jäkel Roman Jäkel's works deal with the human image. Aspects of existence, relationships and human pain are depicted. The works are usually treated in a performance process. Each project is a narrative that reaches the viewer as a photograph, installation or performance. His aim is to tell stories, create connections and show commonalities.

About the exhibition

For two semesters, eleven students from the Faculty of Art at Essen University of Fine Arts, under the direction of Professor Anja Kempe and Professor Thomas Wrede, developed photographic and media works on the festival theme of ‘Chaos’.

Feelings of happiness, pain and other strong emotions are expressed in photographs, overpaintings, moving images and performative processes. Antiques and dystopian landscapes form a stage on which the inconspicuous develops transformative potential. Recurring everyday situations become individual extravagance measured against social conventions.

The exhibition concept is based on the assumption that chaos arises from intertwined contradictions. The oxymoron (plural oxymora) as a linguistic unit of two mutually exclusive terms symbolises the exhibition title for the students' works. They show a restless calm and an orderly disorder. Constricting emptiness meets gaping fullness.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Jahangir Abbas
Barbara Brechtel
Iris Edinger
Justin Emmendörfer
Jannik Hanf
Roman Jäkel
Denise Koblenz
Dahui Lee
Jan Reschop
James Rodemann
Cecilia Tue-Bi

CURATION
Prof. Anja Kempe
Prof. Thomas Wrede

Location

SUPERRAUM I Brückstraße 64, 44135 Dortmund

Period

13.06. - 28.06.2025

Opening

FR 13.06.2025 18:00 mit Tour, Talk

Opening hours

13.06. - 15.06.: FR – SU 11:00 - 18:00
19.06. - 28.06.: TH, FR: 16:00 - 20:00
19.06. - 28.06.: SA: 12:00 - 16:00
TH 19.06.2025 (public holiday) open regularly

Finissage

SA 28.06.2025, 14:00

Admission

free

Other EVENTS during the exhibition:

Guided tour & talk

SA 14.06.2025, 11:00 Guided tour and talk with Prof. Anja Kempe, Prof. Thomas Wrede and students (without registration)
SA 21.06.2025, 14:00 Tour and Talk with the exhibiting students of HBK Essen: Barbara Brechtel, Dahui Lee, Iris Edinger, Roman Jäkel, Denise Koblenz, James Rodeman

Information about the location / organiser

https://dortmund-kreativ.de/superraum/

Photo: Klaus Greipel