Bruno Jakob Solo Show

A broad public knows Bruno Jakob’s work thanks to his participation in the Venice Biennial in 2011, the Ricola Prize 2013, his solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Aarau (1991) and the Kunsthaus Langenthal (2007) as well as numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Bruno Jakob developed his internationally recognised signature style through a specific approach to painting and drawing, in which he brings energy, imagined and photographic images applied mostly with brush and water to various painting grounds in a performative act. The artist, who was born in 1954 in Jegenstorf and who has lived primarily in New York since 1983, will realise an extensive solo exhibition in the Kunsthaus Baselland which will enable a particular insight into a practice that has extended over many decades. A studio fire in Switzerland and the flooding of his New York studio due to a hurricane destroyed more than half of his work. These events notwithstanding, it will be the task and the goal of this exhibition and accompanying catalogue to realise an exhibition looking back as far as 1968.