Johannes Post

Johannes Post (*1983) studied at HFBK – the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He works interdisciplinary in the fields of experimental photography, video and sculpture. He received several grants and prizes, for example Stiftung Kunstfonds, Kunststiftung NRW, Gute Aussichten. His work has been presented in renowned art institutions, amongst others, at the Museum für Photographie Berlin, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Museum of Contemporary Art Sofia, Photomuseum Thessaloniki, Galeria Miasta Ogrodow Katowice, Galeria Helga de Alvear Madrid, Goethe Institut Washington DC. He is member of international artist group darktaxa. Johannes Post lives and works in Cologne and Mönchengladbach-Rheydt, Germany.

 

 

Link: www.johannespost.com

 

 

Johannes Post: AL_ETHER_01, Inkjet print, 200 x150 cm, 2023

 

 

 

Johannes Post: hw_comp_03, Inkjet print, 70x50 cm, 2023

 

 

 

Johannes Post: prrillice_04, Inkjet print, 70x50 cm, 2023

 

 

 

Johannes Post: AL_ETHER_04, Inkjet print, 200 x150 cm, 2023

 

 

 

series lap top

 

 

 

Johannes Post: lap top, 12 x C-Print (framed in stainless steel, mirogard glass), each 49,5 x 35,5 cm, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arsenal

 

In "Arsenal" Johannes Post transforms the tools of the digital age —the laptop, computer, tablet, keyboard, charging cable, etc. — into fictitious Stone Age weapons such as bow and arrow or axe. He scans the surfaces of the digital devices and hardware and then extensively reworks the image files with the help of image editing software from the field of photography; assembling them into his own digital constructions. Post refers to the historical cargo cult, where mid-20th century indigenous Melanesian peoples, as a result of their encounter with Western cultures, created ritual and religiously inspired replicas of western equipment (ie. harbour facilities, radio masts, etc.), the technical function of which was unknown and incomprehensible to them. In his work, Post takes on the role of the technically inferior, and thus addresses, among other things, the fading relationship of the individual to his immediate, digitally dominated environment; and the current power gap between large corporations and developers to us as users and consumers in times of of digital high technology.

 

Text: Michael Reisch