You can contact me via email through jwewetzer(at)protonmail.ch
Bio
I received my high school education at a Catholic school, where I first became interested in the visual language of Christian iconography. Later, I spent time exploring and photographing the more hedonistic sides of my birth city, Berlin.
I went on to study pharmacy, which led me to experiment with chemical processes in the photographic darkroom. I became involved in silver gelatin printing and film development, often working with self-mixed chemicals and alternative methods.
After that, I studied photography at the documentary-focused Ostkreuzschule. I left after two semesters to continue developing my own direction.
My work has focused on people in transitional or fleeting moments of their lives—porn actors, prostitutes, and others from the less exposed parts of urban life. I’m interested in how body and movement reflect their triumphs and tribulations. I work with ambiguity and shadow, using chiaroscuro to let figures appear and disappear, removing them from clear time and place and leaving the viewer with only presence, emotion, and texture.
In the past, I have been applying these ideas to sculpture. I trained with stone sculptors Andreas Hoferick in Berlin and Ralf Knie in Dresden, and I’m exploring new ways of translating my ideas across visual and sculptural media.
At the moment, I’m also expanding these interests into robotics and electronics, focusing on hands-on projects that explore these fields.
This site focuses only on part of the artistic work I created, you can find more recent work, including some sculpture, in my blog.
17.10. – 02.12. 2016
“Pixel in Pigmenten” with Wolfgang Petrick and Ricoh Gerbl among others at Kunstwerkstatt Bethanien, Berlin
31.03 – 01.04 2017
Pop-up Exhibition together with Joseph Benyamin Reich at Berghain Halle, Berlin
01.04. – 22.04. 2017
“ikea relationships” together with Anarella Martinez and Irene Cruz at Die Bäckerei, Innsbruck, Austria
13.04. – 11.05. 2017
“still” with Setareh Alipour at Noize Fabrik, Berlin
02.06. – 07.07. 2017
“Catalyst” with Takuma Hiramatsu at Serigraffeur, Berlin
08.07. – 22.07. 2017
“Anomalie presents: Wewetzer, Kimbo, Serigraffeur” at Anomalie, Berlin
13.01. – 03.02. 2018
“Eigenleben” together with Marcin Plonka, Joseph Benyamin Reich, Esa Ylijaasko, Martina Cirese, Matt Martin and Thomas Gosset at Neurotitan, Berlin
10.03. – 29.04.2018
“Jenseits der Perfektionsfalle” together with Marcin Plonka, Joseph Benyamin Reich, Esa Ylijaasko and Thomas Gosset at Werkstattgalerie, Berlin
06.07. – 30.08.2018
“Die Menge des Lichts bestimmt den Grad der Schwärzung” among others with Benyamin Reich and Ricoh Gerbl at Kunstwerkstatt Bethanien, Berlin
01.11. – 14.11.2018
“Versprechungen” together with Milena Zara and Jeffrey James at Garten 114, Berlin
28.12.2018 – 01.11.2019
“me:tropolis” pop-up exhibition with Thomas Nitz, Marcin Plonka and Jeffrey James at Garten 114, Berlin
15.03. – 30.05.2019
“schwarze Kunst – auch bunt” group show at Kunstwerkstatt Bethanien, Berlin
28.06. – 24.08.2019
“Schönheit gegen Gewalt” together with Klaus Vogelgesang, Rudolf zur Lippe, Benyamin Reich at Werkstattgalerie, Berlin
27.02. 2020
“One-night stand show” Johannes Wewetzer at Vorster&Braye, Cape Town, South Africa
05.09 – 10.10.2020
“Close” together with Rossouw van der Walt and Talut Kareem-Black at Deepest Darkest Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
21.12. 2020 – 30.01. 2021
„WTF?!“ with Leanne Olivier, Henk Serfontien,Kevin Mackintosh at Deepest Darkest Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
18.09 – 02.11.2021
“Towards Us” Johannes Wewetzer at 45, Berlin
05.11 2022 – 07.03 2023
In residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
25.04 2023 – 14.05 2023
Swatch Artjourney at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
19.07 2023 – 16.10 2023
Transcend Time, Transcend Space at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China