Jan Herdlicka
[Berlin, Germany]
Art Yourself Atelier is pleased to present 'Arcadian Cabinet II: Eerie Stars', a distinctive online solo exhibition showcasing the profound artistic innovation of Jan Herdlicka, an ascending artist from Germany.
This marks Jan's sophomore exhibition with Art Yourself Atelier. Explore his debut showcase 'Arcadian Cabinet I' here.
About the Solo Exhibition
In a dreamy manner, Jan's work focuses on the ever-evolving interrelations of human and nonhuman agencies from personal to planetary scales.
The influences range from sci-fi to ecology, utopian and dystopian conceptions such as terraforming, technosphere or the myths of pre-astronautics, to the arts and literature of dark romanticism and magical realism.
Within these thematic fields, the artistic approaches are decisively cross-medial and include various techniques such as photography, sculpture, collage, and mixed media.
Following last year's Arcadian Cabinet I, this year's work period saw an opening towards ceramics, paralleled with a revisiting of analogue photographic techniques.
These came together under the strong focus on a skyward perspective with a wide range of possible implications.
From skies as mirrors of apocalyptic signs with twisted horizons and eerie multiplicities of central stars coming from above and beyond,
to spacemen trapped in a spiderweb of chains amidst the Polish undergrowth, to technoid flying vehicles coming from archaic and/or childish imaginations, a new derivative within the artist's body of work seems to have introduced itself.
His Art Exhibitions and Fairs (Selection)
2024 · Berlin, Germany
Bingo, Bingo
2023 · Berlin, Germany
Betonfuchs 2023, Galerie M
2023 · Berlin, Germany
Skulpturverein #7 - Königskolonnaden
2023 · Berlin, Germany
DRAGONER.01 - Super Contemporary Arts Fest
2022 · Slubice, Poland
Labirynt Festival of New Art
2022 · Berlin, Germany
Alien(n)ation/Raptus, Kunstraum Potsdamer Str.
2021 · Aichach, Germany
Das kleine Format, Kunstverein Aichach
2021 · Berlin, Germany
NFT (kitties) LAB, BAR K Berlin Gallery
2020 · Berlin, Germany
5 rooms/5 artists, Die Fabrik
2019 · Berlin, Germany
Under the Underground, Galerie Franzkowiak
2018 · Berlin, Germany
INTERRELATIONS, Raum fur Drastische Maßnahmen
2018 · Berlin, Germany
II-VI-XVII, Voodoo55 Artspace
2017 · Berlin, Germany
EAF 49 Contemporary Artists, Kantgaragen
2017 · Rome, Italy
The Image of the Savage, Loosenart Gallery
His Interviews (Selection)
Süddeutsche Zeitung, BBC world service, Berliner Zeitung, Radio Fritz, Tagesspiegel, SWR, ELLE, Der Greif (The Arts Hour)
His Study Experience
2018 – 2022 · Berlin, Germany
PhD at Institute for Artistic Research — IKB(with Prof. Hinterwaldner)
2012 – 2013 · Malmö, Sweden
Photography and Interdisciplinary Arts at K3 Malmo(with Anna Strand and Per-Anders Hilgren)