Jan
Jan Vahl, born in 1989 in Lower Saxony, is a visual artist and designer. After training as a bespoke tailor and four further years as a journeyman, he completed a diploma in stage and costume design at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (2019). He then completed his Master's degree in Fine Art and Design at the Sandberg Instituut of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam (2021). Vahl is an alumni of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
In his work, he combines spatial strategies of theatre with textile craft and time-based media, whereby the artistic process is shaped and informed by the individual experience of chronic illness and his socialisation in the context of primary production. The resulting narratives deal primarily with topics such as mutation, transfer and the public sphere.
Vahl has worked with Maike Bouschen, Rebekka David, Bilo 503, apparatus Berlin, Sara Mikolai, Die Soziale Fiktion, Declan Whitaker and Julia*n Meding, among others. In addition to numerous off-site projects, Vahl's work has been shown at the Theater im Marstall Munich, Akademietheater Munich, bat Berlin, Uferstudios Berlin, Dirty Art Foundation Amsterdam, De School Amsterdam and Ballhaus Ost Berlin, among others.