About me
My name is Ole Jauch, and I am an artist.
Born in 1964 in Odense, Denmark, I have spent much of my adult life translating the world, visual impressions and experiences into art.
I express myself through various artistic techniques, including photography, graphics, ceramics, painting, video, sound and the written word.
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About my art and expressions
I have been a creating person for many years. In many different forms of expression and media.
Within the recent 10+ years, photography has been the main supporting element and starting point for my works and my art.
Over many years, I have focused on and immersed myself in different motifs and motif worlds, but I find that over time the motif becomes less and less important, but at the same time more and more important.
The motif has become a carrier wave or frequency for communicating the feeling or condition I experience at the moment the picture is taken. This is precisely why the motif remains important.
And because the motif is important, I find motifs that matter. Which speaks to me intuitively and through layers. Since loneliness and nature mean something to me, I am often drawn to lonely nature or lonely natural areas, where I find my frequencies that can convey my state. Often it is beautiful but not reality, it is a picture of reality as I see and experience it in the state I am in.
I am driven by the duality between insignificance and importance. As it literately pulls in different directions, time is created for stories. A space for time. I find myself in this almost timeless space and I want to both challenge and explore this in-between space – this time. This loneliness of time.
My latest book "MANDØ" is about Time and Time. It is about the tide and the quiet time. The quiet life.
I thought my next project would be about Tide. Tide physically waves back and forth in an endless motion without any possibility of human influence. I thought I was going to do that project, but as I slowly reflect on and digest the MANDØ book and find out why it was made, it also merges with my two previous books, which are about vulnerability and loneliness.
In a way, I find that the three books are about the same thing, which of course is not surprising. They are all about me and my way of doing things in life. It is the starting point for something more. For a personal journey and story about my inner life. My lonely life, my vulnerable life. I call it my inner tide.
I don't know where it will take me or how it will be designed, but I have an intuitive feeling that the outlet lies in my previous books. I think it will become a fourth book. I have become comfortable with publishing my works in books. As the book is a work in itself. The book represents to me the same feeling as buying a music album. To be able to browse/listen at your own pace and create your own story, your own images and world.
It is my desire to dig and search for something heartfelt, something deep within myself. I have made some major life changes over the last six years and it has opened up channels for inspiration and immersion that I have not experienced before. In a way, I have been emotionally reborn and have gotten in touch with myself and parts of myself unknow to me. Through this I observe and store impressions and create my expressions.
Ole Jauch - CV
Censored exhibitions
2021: VK21 – participation in Æglagret, Holbæk Art Association's censored exhibition
2020: RÅ20 – participation in Roskilde Art Association censored exhibition 2020.
2020: KS20. Artist's Summer Exhibition. Debuted and accepted with two photographic works.
2019: RÅ19 – participation in Roskilde Art Association censored exhibition 2019.
2019: "Global X Art" at Gallerie Lorien. Censored group exhibition.
2015: Group exhibition censored at Sund & Bælt.
Solo exhibitions
2019: Red Cross "Past meet Present - Part I"
2019: Rudolph Tegner's Museum. "Past meets Present - Part II". Supported by the Statens Kunstfond with DKK 30,000.
2019: THE HOUSE IN Asnæs. “Past meets Present - Part I”
2018: SAP “Past meet Present - Part I”
2018: Tisvilde Inn. “Locals”
2018: Exhibition and decoration at the music festival Musik I Lejet 2018.
2018: The little yellow cafe and gallery. “Past meets Present - Part I”
2015: Helsinge library "Berliner Fragments".
1993-2012: Various solo exhibitions with painting, ceramics and photography.
Group exhibitions
2021: Nordsjælland's Kunstrunde member exhibition.
2021: BKF Nordsjælland member exhibition.
2021: Gallery Lorien "Loneliness of Man"
2020: Copenhagen Photo Festival "Tid til Tid" with Kunstnerfællesskabet 2249
2020: Gallerie Lorien (New Year and 5th birthday exhibitions)
2020: Opening exhibition Kunstnerfællesskabet 2249
2019: "Nordic Light" at Gallerie Lorien.
2019: Art tour Bornholm with Gallerie Lorien (Bornholm)
2018: Group exhibition at Thy Photo Festival "Past meet Present - Part I"
Projects / events
2020 Video/music work with The Pagsberg Bigband. Performed in Kulturhuset Galaksen and Islands Brygge.
Publications
2021- Diary / Blog at blog.jauch.dk
2022: "MANDØ" Photographic art book. Launch 11/22
2022: ”Loneliness of Being Among Others”. Photographic art book. Launch 04/22
2021: "Exposed to Vulnerability". Photographic art book. Launch 09/21
2019-2020: Column (4 times a year) for SDF magazine "Danish Photography"
2017: 10 analog photographs adopted for USA online magazine “Darkroom underground”
Memberships
2023: Member of The Artis Group KIT
2020: Member of Danske Grafikere
2020: Member of BKF
Represented at
Gallerie Lorien, Frederiksberg.
Banja Rathnov Galleri & Clausens Kunsthandel, København K.
hjemtid
hjemtid is a universe where I express myself in writing and ceramics.
hjemtid is an expression saying "when it's time to go home" . I have been through a long journey both physically and mentally and have now landed.
During this journey I discovered the concept of "hjemtid", which is known back to the 1350s and Renaissance Danish.
Meaning: The word means "when it's time to go home". It refers to the time when you leave a place to return to your home.
With this concept or word as a guide, I have found home. Both in a physical sense in Skælskør, where I now live, but equally mentally, where through my physical settlement in Skælskør I have found mental peace.
This is expressed through the written word and most recently also through ceramics.
Ceramics is a vocation in itself, which began around 2001, when I first became acquainted with ceramics. This happened specifically during a stay at Holstebro Højskole, where ceramics teacher Steen Dybdal opened the universe of ceramics to me.
With this in mind, I throw myself into ceramics after, at this point, having expressed myself through painting for a number of years.
Ceramics opens up the three-dimensional world for me - and I am sold and surrender myself completely to this new universe.
I work purposefully with ceramics for 6-7 years until a move puts an end to this chapter.
For the next 19 years I have no contact with ceramics, but then after my move to Skælskør ceramics start knocking again and in the winter of 2025 I pull myself together and buy some clay and get going again.
The feeling is like coming home - like getting on my bike again and just riding out there.
From here it goes quickly to where I have today established myself in a new and lovely ceramics workshop here in Skælskør.