Sven Jakubith

Sven Jakubith (born 1964 in Berlin) is a German artist whose work combines photography, collage, printmaking, and painting. His central theme is traces — the marks left by movement, memory, and transience.

Jakubith studied physics in Berlin and earned his PhD in 1992. At the same time, he began artistic studies at the Freie Kunstschule Berlin, where he was particularly influenced by the collages of Robert Rauschenberg and the screen prints of Andy Warhol. The combination of scientific precision and artistic freedom became a defining tension in his work.

His art is deeply connected to travel and sailing experiences. He crossed Southeast Asia by bicycle (Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand) and traveled through Cuba and New Zealand. Beginning in 2015, he undertook several long-distance voyages on his own sailing yachts — from Mallorca across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal to Tahiti, and further across the Pacific. These journeys profoundly shape his visual language: the horizon as a line, the wake on the sea, the fleetingness of the moment.

Jakubith works with a mixed-media approach: his own travel photographs are digitally processed, printed in large format, and then reworked with oil paint, collage,...

Kunstschule Berlin

Solo exhibitions (selection)
1999
Reisen, Luisenplatz 2, 14471 Potsdam

1998
Having Sex with your Image, Galerie am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
Memories, MAC Object, Münster
Mein Kampf, Foyer Theater Wilhelmshaven
Nach dem Regen, Foyer Theater Wilhelmshaven
Ellens, Münster


Galerie First Floor Art, Zürich
Ellens, Münster


Stükke-Theater, Foyer, Berlin


Galerie im FHI der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin



Group exhibitions (selection)

Gildewart Galerie, Versmold
Utopos, Open Room, Berlin

Bartning 21, Berlin

Open Studios, Berkeley, Kalifornien, USA