Introduction
Born 1979 in USA. Works and lives in Brussels.
Jakup Auce is profoundly intrigued by the portraying of the visage and the narratives of character-making, generating series of personages that wander inside a retro sci-fi, from glam to cryogenisation, around a theatre of living mechanical puppets. An army of beautiful monsters are the fable of the artist and his surroundings: the embryonic sexuality of nature as the social construct of identity - ?Pas pour ceux qui ont pris les cockrings pour des ronds des serviettes?. Auce has exhibited in In Extenso (FR), Komplot (BE), Inside 15 (BE), Island (BE) and IMT Gallery (UK); he is represented by Nosbaum Reding and Trampoline.
Biography
Education
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels, BE
Upcoming
2016
Solo show, Cinnamon, Rotterdam, NL
2015
Trust: The Exchange, curated by Sonia Dermience, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, GL STRAND, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, and Overgaden, Copenhaguen, DK
Group show, Cinnamon, Rotterdam, NL
Solo Shows
2015
Lazy Boy, Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg, LU
2014
Art at the End of the Social, Trampoline, Antwerp, BE
2013
Fell in love with the wolf, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Group Shows
2014
Trailers for the Future, Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liège, BE
Obliteration Devices, ImageTextMusic Gallery, London, UK
Strawberry Sausages, curated by Alberto García del Castillo and Agata Jastrzabek, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, LU
Acid Rain, curated by Aline Bouvy and Xavier Mary, Island, Brussels, BE
2013
Splash, Can And Cock, curated by Sonia Dermience and Alberto García del Castillo, Komplot, Brussels, BE
Inside 15, curated by Jean Paul Jacquet, Brussels, BE