“The work on the stone is often a balancing act. Hard rock is like glas, it simply splinters, if you tackle it wrongly. I love these surfaces, which tell stories, and the cold core, which you can peel out.”
Christoph Jakob works with a special procedure: with the splitter he breaks on exact defined breakages, the glashard material. He provides the fragments with incisions, threw chipping pieces off he creates serial arranged bridges, round boreholes, rectangular or square areas and composes the single elements again.
Like an architect the sculptor creates towers from stone elements and provides every “building” an individual aura: he emphasizes threw polished edges and threw open spaces he grants insight and perspective, provides the “facade” with structures or plays threw relocating of the tower elements and boreholes on the cutting edge with the statics.
So there are formed stone sculptures, which emit silence and power, because the artis who comes from the Frankfurt area, always creates, a balance between his creative intervention and the momentum of the stone, its texture and his structurally entity. .
1973 on 05.05. born in Erlenbach am Main
1994 high school diploma
1997 – 1999 studies of sculpture, Art Academy Alfter Awards
2007 sponsorship award of the bay. State Ministry for science, research and art
2012 advancement award for contemporary art, Aschaffenburg
2025 Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf
2023 Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf
2022 24th Sculpture Park Mörfelden-Walldorf, award
Ott Schaffner Prize
2021 Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf
2020 Luzia Sassen Gallery, Hennef
2019 Layers, Kunstverein Bad Nauheim
2018 Gallery Kunst-Schaefer. Wiesbaden
2016 Flow Fine Art Gallery, Hitdorf Capriola Gallery, Grossostheim
2015 “more news from nowhere”, Kunstverein Bad Homburg
2014 Sculpture summer in the botanical garden of Ulm
2013 Sculptor Symposium, Kirchheim
Work in stone, Galerie Rottmann Fuent, Munich
2012 Old City Gallery Mainz
Aaart Foundation, Kitzbuehel
Garden House Gallery, Babenhausen
2011 Architecture Meeting House, Sulzbach
2010 International Symposium Grafenhausen
Flow Fine Art Gallery, Hitdorf
2009 “crossroads”, gallery LeBmann & Lensen, Rodaau
Epicurus Gallery, Wuppertal
2008 “Sculptures on the Main”, Schlosswiese Aschaffenburg
2007 “Put into the light IV”, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg “Objective” “Kulturspeicher Würzburg”
2006 “Fe2Fe204”, osmotic space Aschaffenburg,
2005 “Nord Art”, Rendsburg
Sculpture symposium in Tauberbischofsheim
2001 Sculpture Symposium Larvik, Norway
