ganslmeier&zibelnik

contact

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@jakob_ganslmeier +31 6 4166 9875

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awards and recognition

2026 Alison and Peter Klein Foundation Photography Prize, DE - current nominees (GZ)
2025 Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography, AT - winners (GZ)
2024 Kranj Foto Fest Prize, SI- winners (GZ)
2024 Foam Paul Huf Award, NL - nominees (GZ)
2024 Prix Pictet, CH - two-time nominees (GZ)
2022 Foundation Genshagen Prize, DE - winners (GZ)
2022 Rabo Photographic Talent Prize, NL, longlist (AZ)
2021, 2022 Leica Oscar Barnack Newcomer Award, DE - two-time nominee (AZ)
2021 ProfiFoto Young Talents Award (JG)
2021 Prix Nouvelles Ecritures de la Photographie Environmentale - finalist (AZ)
2020 C/O Berlin Talent Award - nominee (AZ)
2020 British Journal of Photography Ones to Watch 2020, UK - selected artist (AZ)
2020 GUP New Talent of the year, NL - winner (AZ)
2020 Florida Museum of of Photographic Arts IPC, US - winner (AZ)
2020 Snider Prize, MOCP, Columbia College Chicago, US - honorable mention (AZ)
2020 FUTURES Photography Platform, EU - selected artist (AZ)
2019 PARALLEL Photography Platform, EU - selected artist (AZ)
2019 Haute Photographie Talent, NL - selected artist (AZ)
2019 Verzasca Nera Award, CH - winner (AZ)
2019 Burn Emerging Photographer Fund, US - finalist (AZ)
2018 Lotto Foundation Young Talent Art Prize (JG)
2018 Studio Vortex Residency, Arles (JG)
2018 Borderline Project Residency - selected artist (JG)
2016 NITS DOCfield 16 - selected artist (JG)
2015 European Exhibition Award, Epea 03 - selected artist (JG)
2015 Blickkontakte, Magazin Photopresse - winner (JG)
2014 Mobile Residency in Eastern Europe - selected artist (JG)
2013 Aenne Biermann Preis - honorable mention (JG)
2012 Hil Award - winner (JG)

grants

2025 Stroom Den Haag - SPOT
2024 Mondriaan Fonds Publication Grant
2024 ZOZ Project Grant
2024 Mondriaan Fonds Artist Project
2024 Stroom Den Haag - SPOT
2023 ZOZ Academy Grant
2023 Stroom Den Haag - SPOT
2022 Mondriaan Fonds Artist Project
2022 BBK Berlin - Neustart Grant
2022 Spot Grant Stroom Den Haag
2021 Mondriaan Fonds Artist Start
2021 Stroom Den Haag - SPOT

solo exhibitions

2025 Bereitschaft, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, SI (GZ)
2025 Bereitschaft, Spandau Citadel, Berlin, DE (GZ)
2025 Bereitschaft, Museum of Forced Labor Under National Socialism, DE (GZ)
2025 Fault Line, European Month of Photography, Berlin, DE (GZ)
2024 GIGA, Foam Museum Amsterdam, NL (GZ)
2024 Fault Line, Fotomuseum Den Haag, NL (GZ)
2024 Fault Line, Kranj Foto Festival, SI (GZ)
2024 Haut, Stein & Public Enlightenment, Bärenzwinger - Communal Gallery Berlin, DE (GZ)
2023 If a Tree Fell in a Forest, Bergen Belsen Memorial, DE (GZ)
2023 Poetry is Out of Place, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, DE (JG)
2023 Poetry is Out of Place, The Falstad Centre, NO (GZ)
2022 The World is Ending Again, Maribor Art Gallery, Sl (AZ)
2022 Haut, Stein, NS Documentation Centre, Cologne, DE (JG)
2022 Poetry Is Out of Place, Palastbar Zwickau, DE (JG)
2021 Haut, Stein, Stéphane Hessel Platz, Weimar, DE (JG)
2021 Haut, Stein, Nikolaiplatz, Nordhausen, DE (JG)
2021 Haut, Stein, Villa Heinrichwerk, Ostritz, DE (JG)
2020 Haut, Stein, Zitadelle Spandau, Bastion Kronprinz (JG)
2019 We are the Ones Turning, Verzasca Foto Festival, CH (AZ)
2018 Lovely Planet: Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus, DE (JG)
2018 Lovely Planet: Poland, Passerelle, Trigger, Villa Böhm, Neustädter Kunstverein, DE (JG)
2018 Lovely Planet: Poland, Westwendischer Kunstverein, DE (JG)

group exhibitions

2026 Gemachte Männer, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus, DE
2026 Thingstätten, Elsa Galerie, Bielefeld, DE
2026 Platform Wars, Camera Austria Gallery, Graz, AT
2025 The Will to Change, HALLE 14, Leipzig, DE
2025 Invisible Race, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2025 Foreword, International Centre for the Image, Dublin, IR
2025 Bereitschaft, Festival Circulation(s), Paris, FR
2024 Space With a Potentiality for a Shift, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, SI
2024 Fault Line, Sprouts Film Festival, MACA Centre, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Fault Line, Oslo Negativ Festival, NO
2024 Fault Line, Lausitz Festival, DE
2024 Fault Line, Photo Basel, CH
2024 Fault Line, Art Rotterdam, NL
2024 A Mirrored Image, with Onias Landveld, University of Amsterdam, NL (screening)
2024 Public Enlightenment, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus, DE (screening)
2023 Fault Line, Verzasca Foto Festival, CH
2023 Redpilled, NADAN Berlin, DE
2023 We are the Ones Turning, Director’s Cut, Parallel - European Photo-Based Platform, PT
2023 Thingstätten, Deutsches Haus, New York, US
2023 A Mirrored Image, Stroom Den Haag, NL (screening)
2023 Lovely Planet: Poland, BWA Galeria, Zielona Gora, PL
2023 Trigger, Kulturmarkthalle Berlin, DE
2022 Immortality is Commonplace, Art Salon Zurich, CH
2022 We are the Ones Turning, Benaki Museum, Athens Photo Festival, GR
2022 Immortality is Commonplace, Paris Photo (online), FR
2022 Home: A State of Transition, Kranj Foto Fest, SI
2022 Haut, Stein, Politics in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Kraków, PL
2022 Lovely Planet: Poland, Parlament Brandenburg, DE
2022 Haut, Stein, Fotograf Festival Prague, Fotograf Gallery, CZ
2022 Haut, Stein, Fotograf Festival Prague, VI PER Gallery, CZ
2022 Lovely Planet: Polen, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt (Oder), DE
2022 Lovely Planet, Poland, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus, DE
2021 Bygone Nearby, Goethe Institute Ukraine, UA
2021 We are the Ones Turning, This Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Tangle, Westwerk Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2021 Thread, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2020 Liebe, Hass und Einsamkeit. Emotionen in der Kunst. Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus, DE
2020 Urgent Arts of Living, Parallel - European Photo-Based Platform Exhibition Award, PT
2020 RESET: Futures Online Festival (online)
2020 6 Talents, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Haute Photographie Fair, Rotterdam, NL
2020 Haut, Stein, Dauerausstellung Ausstellung Zitadelle Spandau
2020 Bygone, Nearby, online (www.bygone-nearby.co)
2019 ALARUM, Ardesia Projects for PH Museum (online)
2019 Urgent Arts of Living, Procur.arte, PT
2019 Valley of the Strange, Procur.arte, PT
2019 GUP New 2020, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Zeitgeist, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography. Center, Budapest, HU
2019 Valley of the Strange, ISSP Gallery, LV
2019 Urgent Arts of Living, Kaunas Photography Gallery, LT
2019 ALARUM, Ardesia Projects, Berlin, DE
2019 White Devil, If Slovenia Were, Odessa Photo Days, UA
2019 100 Years Bauhaus, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus, DE
2019 Die Anderen sind wir, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art, Cottbus, DE
2019 Neo-Right, BWA Galeria, Zielona Gora, PL
2019 Haut, Stein, Werkschau, FH Bielefeld, DE
2019 Borderline Project, Palace, Brussels, BE
2019 Borderline Project, European University, Frankfurt (Oder), DE
2019 Borderline Project, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, DE
2018 White Devil, If Slovenia Were, Grad Rajhenburg, SI
2018 White Devil, Organ Vida Festival (PARALLEL - Intersection), Zagreb, HR
2018 White Devil, If Slovenia Were, Voies Off Festival Arles, FR
2018 Lotto Brandenburg Kunstpreis, Kunstraum Potsdam, DE
2018 Artist Residency exhibition by Studio Vortex, Gallerie Voies Off Arles, FR
2018 Borderline Project, Club der polnischen Versager Berlin, DE
2018 Stadt Raum Portrait, aff Gallery, Berlin, DE
2018 Triennale of Photography, Hamburg, FHBFG Container, DE
2018 Lumix Festival Hannover, FHBFG Container, DE
2018 Kjer ljudje pozabijo umreti, Trubar Literature House, Ljubljana (SI)
2017 Arrivals, Departed, Fotogalerija Stolp, NovaF - Young Slovenian Photography, Maribor, SI
2017 Out of Frame, Maribor Art Gallery, SI
2017 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE
2017 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, NO
2017 Biennale Le latitudini dell'arte Genova, IT
2017 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, vhs-Galerie, Konstanz, DE
2017 Wiesbaden Days of Photography, Art House Wiesbaden, DE
2017 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg, DE
2017 Fotowettbewerb der Hoepfner-Stiftung, Industrie und Handelskammer, Karlsruhe, DE
2016 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) Villa Argentina, Viareggio, IT
2016 Epea 03 (European Exhibition Award) Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, FR
2016 BUDE BETT BARGELD / LICHT UNSERER TAGE Ruhrtriennale Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, DE
2016 European Month of Photography at Mein Blau - FOG Documentaries Dispersed
2016 "Clearly Ambiguous" at SMAC Gallery, Berlin, DE
2015 FOG excerpts, Kunsthalle Hannover, DE
2015 Deutscher Jugendfoto-Preis, Deutsche Historisches Museum, Berlin, DE
2015 Keep Your Eyes Peeled, AFF Gallerie, Berlin, DE
2014 Vice-Versa-Gallery, Berlin, DE
2014 SEZ - Abschlussausstellung Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, DE
2013 Aenne Biermann Preis, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Gera, DE
2013 Projektraum, Berlin, DE
2013 dkw. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, DE
2013 Goethe Institut Zagreb / Kroatien, Gallery Principij, Rijeka, HR

workshops and teaching

Since 2023, Ganslmeier & Zibelnik have lead a workshop programme on visual literacy as a method of mediating their exhibition installations with young audiences. Their workshop has been implemented at over 18 art institutions and high schools across Europe as an intensive introduction to visual literacy. Developed in dialogue with museum education departments, including FOAM Amsterdam, the workshop has travelled across a network of European and international cultural and educational institutions, among them the Finnish Museum of Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Mozarteum University Salzburg, Organ Vida Festival in Zagreb, Spandau Citadel, Communal Gallery Berlin, and others. The programme has been officially licensed to the Museum of Forced Labor under National Socialism in 2025.

Ganslmeier led the course Participatory Methods in Documentary Photography at HTW University of Applied Sciences Berlin from 2023 to 2025. Since 2025, he has been teaching Unstable Archives: Reclaiming Memory Amidst Digital Excess at the International Center of Photography in New York, alongside Alexey Yurenev. From 2020 to 2021, Ganslmeier directed an educational programme under the Goethe Institute in Kyiv, focusing on the history of displacement through photography for high school students in Ukraine, Poland, and Germany.

lectures and artist talks

2026 Estafet, Movies That Matter, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL
2026 Nearest Truth podcast, Episode 506 with Brad Feuerhelm, online
2026 Platform Wars, Camera Austria, Graz, AT
2026 Youth Radicalisation on Social Media, lecture at Aalto University, Department of Art and Media, FI
2025 If a Flower Bloomed in a Dark Room, Would You Trust It?, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, SI
2025 Youth Radicalisation on Social Media, lecture at Mozarteum University Salzburg, AT
2025 Halle 14, Artist Reading Room, artist talk with Spector Books, DE
2025 ZDF Aspekte: Fit um jeden Preis? Lifestyle oder Leistungsdruck?, TV portrait & work feature, DE
2025 Artistic Research Strategies for De-radicalization on Social Media - Museum of Forced Labor Under National Socialism, artist talk with Caspar Weimann, DE
2025 Rethinking the Image Symposium, International Centre for the Image, IR
2025 Viral Hallucinations Symposium, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE
2025 Landscapes of Radicalisation, with Raimar Stange, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
2025 The Photographic Narratives of Climate Crisis, European Month of Photography, ROAM Projects, Berlin, DE
2024 Polarization, Elections, and AI, John Adams Institute, moderated by Yvonne Zonderop, NL
2024 Foam: GIGA, Wie Wat Bewaart, Amsterdam FM, NL
2024 Kranj Foto Festival, Artist Talk, moderated by Camera Austria editor in chief Christina Töpfer, SI
2024 Verzasca Photo Festival, Artist Talk, CH
2024 Haut, Stein, International Center of Photography, online
2023 Visual Storytelling #5: Houses of Darkness, Pakhuis de Zwijger, moderated by Lars Boering, NL
2023 Poetry Is Out of Place, Staffordshire University, lecture, online
2022 Questioning the Image, the Market, and the Role of Representation, with Salvatore Vitale and Joanna Zylinska, online
2021 Undisciplining Photography in cooperation with Nederlands Fotomuseum, Den Haag, NL

publications

2025 If a Flower Bloomed in a Dark Room, Would You Trust It?, Ganslmeier & Zibelnik, Spector Books, Leipzig
2021 I Saw The Pines Grow, Ana Zibelnik & Jaka Gercar, Day X series, Paper Tigers Books, 2021
2018 Lovely Planet: Poland, Jakob Ganslmeier, Edition Cantz
2014 Trigger, self-published

edited publications

2022 “Inhabiting a Wounded World: A Phenomenology of Eco-anxiety,” Ales Oblak, Ana Zibelnik, Jakob Ganslmeier et. al - research paper
2022 Politics in Art, (ed. Maria Anna Potocka, Agnieszka Sachar, Martyna Sobczyk), Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow - catalogue
2022 H – The Notion of Humanist Photography, CNA Luxembourg & Kaunas Photography Gallery (ed. Jim Goldberg & Emma Bowkett) - edited publication
2022 Thingstätten (ed. Katharina Bosse), Kerber Verlag
2021 Henry Carroll, Humans; Photographs That Make You Think, Abrams - edited publication
2022 Changing Times: Art Facing a New World, The Eyes Publishing & PARALLEL RESET, Futures (ed. Salvatore Vitale) - edited publication
2020 RUNNING FALLING FLYING FLOATING CRAWLING Saint Lucy Books (ed. Mark Alice Durant)
2019 Urgent Arts of Living (ed. Cale Garrido), Kaunas Photography Gallery, catalogue
2019 Valley of the Strange (ed. Eric Lawton), ISSP Gallery & PARALLEL, catalogue
2019 If Slovenia Were, Krško Cultural Centre, catalogue
2016 European Photo Exhibition Award 03: Shifting Boundaries, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation en France