Jeremy Knowles

Jeremy is a British artist addressing urbanism, surveillance, public space, and environmental change within his projects, which range in expression from photography, sound, and video art to installation and public intervention. He holds a BA in Photography from Camberwell College of Art and a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design from Oaklands College of Art.

Since 2016, Jeremy has been based in Berlin, where his practice has developed into a playful study of the built environment and the everyday. Jeremy’s projects draw patterns and humour from the randomness and repetitive non-events that characterise the mundane within our lives – the overlooked and often unnoticed aspects of our existence that make us human. By bringing greater prominence and visibility to the accidental, the miraculous, and the comical, we are challenged by Jeremy’s projects and photo series to reconsider the weight of our daily interactions with things and people and to meditate on what happens when we think nothing is happening.

Jeremy regularly exhibits his projects in institutions across Germany and Europe. His work has also been included in group shows in China, Russia, and the USA.

In 2018, Jeremy was shortlisted for BLOOOM Award in Germany. In 2019, he ...

2022 -
MA, Raum Strategien
Kunsthochschule Weißensee, DE

2012 - 2015
BA, Photography
University of the Arts London, UK

2010 - 2011
Foundation Diploma, Art & Design
Oaklands College of Art, UK

/Solo Shows
May 2021, YOU ARE HERE - DISKURS Gallery, Berlin

/Selected Group Shows

Apr 2023, Future Proof - Dot Gallery, Berlin
Mar 2022, Sensing the City, Sense of the City - Zwitschermaschine, Berlin
Sep 2021, Wiedersehen - DISKURS Gallery, Berlin
Jul 2021, Obsessions - Tête Gallery, Berlin
Jul 2021, Routes - Scalo Lambrate, Milan
Jun 2021, Kreuzungen - LiTE-HAUS Galerie, Berlin
Jun 2021, Hot Air - ReTramp Gallery, Berlin
Dec 2020, Action on Hold - Green Hill Gallery, Berlin
Dec 2020, Novel (s) of Places or Abstract Topophilia - Rozenau Gallery, Kaliningrad
Nov 2020, Locked + Loaded - DegreeArt, Online
Nov 2020, Neukölln Stories - LiTE-HAUS Galerie, Berlin
Oct 2019, Blind Date - Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin
Aug 2019, Public, Private & In Between - Green Hill Gallery, Berlin
Jul 2019, Summer Mood - GRRL Haus Cinema, Berlin
Apr 2019, Anxiety & Minimalism - Liebig12, Berlin
Mar 2019, Stop, Look, Listen, Feel - (Platform Projects) Affordable Art Fair, London
Nov 2018, 50 Under 50 - Studio Baustelle, Berlin
Mar 2018, 8am Walks - HOM Cafe, Berlin
Nov 2017, Unexpected - Hoxton Arches, London
Jun 2015, Undergraduate Degree Show - Camberwell College of Arts, London
Mar 2015, Art Academy Summer Exhibition - Today Art Museum, Beijin...