Jan Verbeek →
Jan Verbeek was born 1966 in Bonn, Germany. From 1987 to 1989 he studied Art History, Literature and Communication Research at Bonn University. From 1989 to 1996 he was student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf under Nan Hoover and Nam June Paik. In 1993 he became Meisterschüler / master grade student of Paik and worked as his assistant from 1994 to 1996. As a postgraduate he studied Audio-Visual Art at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, from 1996 to 1999.
Verbeek's video and installation work is based on a sensitive observation of reality. The audio-visual compositions are characterized by a delicate interaction of image and sound and the way how time and space work together.
Verbeek received international art prizes and showed his work in numerous festivals and museums, among them the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, ZKM / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Singapore Art Museum, Visual Museum Saitama Japan and the Museum of Modern Art New York.
00:27, Color, Stereo | DE, 2001
 Jan Verbeek: Skip and Return
Twenty-seven seconds, thirty-three takes: a story.
Jan Verbeek was born 1966 in Bonn, Germany. From 1987 to 1989 he studied Art History, Literature and Communication Research at Bonn University.
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Jan Verbeek
audio-visual installation with four synchronised projections; documentation: 07:00 + 16:35 split screen,
JP, DE, 2006
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Jan Verbeek
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PL, DE, 2001
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Jan Verbeek
07:42, Color, Stereo,
DE, 1990
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Jan Verbeek
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KR, DE, 2006
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Jan Verbeek
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JP, DE, 2007
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Jan Verbeek
02:12, Color, Stereo,
DE, 1994
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Jan Verbeek
00:27, Color, Stereo,
DE, 2001
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Jan Verbeek
05:35, Color, Stereo,
JP, DE, 2004
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2008 → Introducing the artist, Jan Verbeek
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Jan Verbeek
01:19, Color, Stereo,
DE, 2003
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05:45, Color, Stereo,
DE, 1991
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07:42, Color, Stereo | DE, 1990
 Jan Verbeek: Interferenz
'Meditation of a partial description of nature based upon video time.'
 Jan Verbeek: Exercise
Through the eyes and reactions of a judge the video observes a tournament of young martial artists. The indications of the judge interfere with the transmission by the medium.
 Jan Verbeek: tonight
A window at night, lighted from within. The silhouette of a woman can be seen. She cleans the window, obsessively, and engrossed in herself.
The video ends with a quote from Albert Camus: 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.'
 Jan Verbeek: Osmotic
A young parking garage attendant with hat and trench coat and long arms conducts the cars to the one or other exit. The precise operation appears like the choreography of a powerful dance. The character of images and the musical composition annihilate boundaries, outside world and inner world merge.
 On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo
Tokyo, 11pm. People entering a train.
Shot in one take the video communicates the inevitable up to the edge of the unbearable.
01:19, Color, Stereo | DE, 2003
 Jan Verbeek: Open Sky
A meadow. Two children are building a house. Light and noise is coming from the open sky. The children act like dancers. On their terrace they reach, unprotectedly and happy, the end of the world.
02:12, Color, Stereo | DE, 1994
 Jan Verbeek: Local Ride
An accelerating journey across country dissolves into a shimmering sea of yellow flowers in full bloom. A two-minute crash course in poetry, with a surprise ending.
05:45, Color, Stereo | DE, 1991
 Jan Verbeek: Continuum
'Go on!' Buddha’s last words.
Without commentary, the video presents an everyday means of transportation in movement. The particular images and sounds and the polarizing editing make this technical, ceaselessly running object an increasingly associative metaphor; it acquires the character of a living creature, trapped in its system.
audio-visual installation with four synchronised projections; documentation: 07:00 + 16:35 split screen | DE, JP, 2006
 Jan Verbeek: Bright Future Ahead
The installation Bright Future Ahead creates a dense and floating atmosphere. Aspects of life in a mega-city world like Tokyo can be seen, contrasts in Japanese civilization. People reveal themselves as parts within well-organized systems. Routine activities are condensed to ambiguous choreographies. If there will be a bright future, this question remains unanswered.
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