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Jessica Tille is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Düsseldorf, Germany.

She studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she graduated in the classes of Gregor Schneider and Ed Atkins in 2025. Previously she received a BA in Philosophy and Art- & Visual History from Humboldt-University Berlin. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and internationally and is held in private collections. Her practice has been supported by international residencies, artist grants and funding for projects and research abroad.

studio@jessicatille.com

Or make an appointment to come by for a studio visit in Adersstraße, close to Düsseldorf main station.

UPCOMING
Paris Photo 2026
12.–15. November 2026
Düsseldorf and Photography
Digital Sector, E30, Grand Palais, Paris
Commissioned by Fotostadt Düsseldorf

Book Signing / Talk with Jessica Tille
November 12th, 3 PM
Messestand D, E30

^Education

^{2021-2025

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Diploma, Class of Gregor Schneider

Guest with John Morgan 2021-2024 & Ed Atkins 2024-2025

2019-2021

Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam

Department of Fine Arts

2018

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Department of Aesthetics, DAAD Promos-Grant

2015-2020

Humboldt-University of Berlin

Philosophy, Art History and Visual Culture Studies, Bachelor of Arts}

Solo & Duo Shows

2026 ressorts
Solo Show, DC Open Galleries, Nexus Nails, Düsseldorf (GER)

2026 ghostwriter drowning
Solo Show, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne (GER)

2025 The splitting of a point
Solo Show, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld (GER)

2025 HOUR‘S GAS
Graduation Show Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Room 109,
Class of Gregor Schneider & Class of Ed Atkins (GER)

2025 In a state of bliss
Duo Show with Alessia Bertini, superattico, Milano (IT)

2022 No Cat Walks
Solo Show, DC Open Galleries, Livelabstudios, Düsseldorf (GER)

2022 billiarded bibliothek (rec : reflux)
Duo Show with Jehoon Lee, project space Oberbilker Allee, Düsseldorf (GER)

2021 The Laboratory of Resolution
Solo Show with one-week Durational Performance
Glass Pavilion Dissidency-Programm, Amsterdam (NL)

2020 interruption/space
Solo Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)

2018 Cosmetic Reaction
Duo Show with Milena Zara, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin (GER)

Group Shows

2026 Düsseldorf and Photography
Commissioned by Fotostadt Düsseldorf, Paris Photo, Digital Sector, E30, Grand Palais, Paris (FR)

2026 The Submission
curated by Florian Meisenberg, Künstlerverein Malkasten,
Düsseldorf (GER)

2026 Mockingbirds
second edition of Treppen, curated by Kim-Camille Kreuz & María Inez Plaza Lazo / Arts of the working class (GER)

2026 Dialogue & Photography
KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (GER)

2025 And again how something was or so is
curated by Peter Geller, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin ((GER)

2025 In-between-Transit
curated by Kim-Camille Kreuz, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf (GER)

2024 78. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung
Kunstmuseum Solingen (GER)

2024 Drawing as Metaphor
curated by Johanna Roth, FUSE, Zürich (CH)

2024 Stiction
E-Werk Luckenwalde, Brandenburg / Berlin (GER)

2024 Cortex
curated by Paula Pedraza & Apthk Lab, Freiraum Düsseldorf (GER)

2024 ANTHOLOGY 01: MOULD
Reinraum, Düsseldorf (GER)

2023 EVA Experimental Video Art
BACC Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok (THA)

2023 openinghappening by theartofcelebration
NKR Neuer Kunstraum, Düsseldorf (GER)

2023 Out Of Stock
Group Show in former cafeteria at Hansaallee 190, Düsseldorf

2023 We don’t actually need gravity
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig (GER)

2022 Leer_stelle_Raumtheorien
Group Show in empty building at Bonnerstr. 126, Köln (GER)

2022 Labor der Künste
Final exhibition of the residency-fellowship at Palazzo Ricci, European Academy of Performing Arts, Kolleg der Künste, Montepulciano (IT)

2021 Heatpulp
Galerie de Orangerie, Amstelpark, Amsterdam (NL)

2020 Tiny Art Gallery 2nd Edition
Tiny Art Gallery, Den Haag (NL)

2020 514:DARLING
Group Show in empty housing units, Darlingstraat 514, Amsterdam Bijlmer (NL)

2020 Scan to Touch
Group Show at Sandberg FedLev building, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)

2020 Deep Storage
Online Group Show with print catalogue, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam (NL)

Performances, Screenings, Readings

2025 Countdown Credits
Lecture-Performance, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf (GER)

2025 zat #9
Publication-Launch, invited by Anne Schülke & Detlef Klepsch, Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf (GER)

2024 Playback
Kant Kino, Berlin (GER)

2024 Drowning Upwards
Reading, Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf (GER)

2024 On Synchronizity / ANTHO:ENTHO; a cccertain cccirculation
Publication-Launch and Reading
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (GER)

2024 Travelogue of a figure
Lecture-Performance, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2024 I could pee on the Diaries / Am blinzeln interessiert
Reading, Recordings and Live-Listening Session for Callshop Radio, Sommerrundgang Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2023 Scroll on Pixelated Landscape
Publication-Launch and Performance, Sans Serif, Amsterdam (NL)

2023 playlist by theartofcelebration
Screening, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf (GER)

2023 Dandy
Performer for Paula Pedraza’s LARP (Live Action Role Play), Sprink, Düsseldorf (GER)

2022 Pls Come Home
Screening of DUST FROM HOLE, Club Z, Köln (GER)

2021 Library of Locations
Performance as part of Workshop with David Maroto on Fiction, Narrativity and Performativity, Amsterdam (NL)

Book-Projects, Publications

2025 Playback: Headlines for Days
Artist Book, 12 x 24 cm, 366 Days / 740 Pages, Edition of 7

2024 On Synchronizity
with Class of John Morgan, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2023 Exxo-Reader
with Exxo Collective, Amsterdam

2022 One morning I woke up and the sun was gone
Artist Book

2018 Floating; Silence
Artist Book

Awards, Grants

2026 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Working Scholarship

2025 BEST-Gruppe Project Award
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2024 Project Grant
by Freunde und Förderer der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2023 DAAD Research Grant
for Research in the United Kingdom

2023 Deutschlandstidpendium-Scholarship
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2022 & 2024 Project Grant
by Sparkassen Kunst- u. Kulturstiftung

2018 DAAD Promos Grant
for Studies at the Department of Aesthetics at Seoul National University, South Korea

Residencies

2025 Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld (GER)
Residency-Scholarship

2023 & 2024 Inndépendènce, Residency Program of ETH Zürich
Residency at Hotel Furkablick, Furkapass-Glacier (CH)

2022 Laboratory of the Arts Residency Programm
Palazzo Ricci College of the Arts, European Academy of Performing Arts, Montepulciano (IT)

2021 Residency at the Botanical Garden / Galerie de Orangerie at Amstelpark, Amsterdam (NL)

2021 Dissidency Residency Programm
The Glas Pavilion, Amsterdam (NL)

Curatorial Projects

ANTHOLOGY explores collaborative forms of curating and publishing through a series of exhibitions and events that connect physical spaces with specific books, creating new experiences and artefacts in public space beyond the white cube. After ten editions, the series will culminate in a publication that weaves the connections between spaces and books into a new narrative. The first edition of ANTHOLOGY (#1 MOULD) was realised at Reinraum, Düsseldorf, in June 2024.

Teaching and Mediation

Alongside my artistic practice, I work as a freelance art educator, developing guided tours, workshops and collaborative learning formats for museums, collections, art fairs and schools. My approach connects close observation, dialogue and material experimentation, inviting participants to explore how images produce meaning and how interpretation changes through language, context and hands-on engagement. These questions also inform my artistic research into the transmission of knowledge between bodies, media and materials.

Ongoing Collaborations:

Since 2023 / Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Development and delivery of thematic guided tours and workshops for adults.

Since 2023 / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20 / K21, Düsseldorf
Development and delivery of thematic tours of the collections and temporary exhibitions, workshops for all age groups and collaborations with schools. Work in the K21 media workshop, including the development of media-specific educational formats.

Since 2023 / Art Düsseldorf and Art Cologne
Guided tours for VIP guests, museum friends’ associations and the general public.

Selected Projects and Previous Collaborations:

2026 / Dialog und Fotografie, Cooperation with the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf, IJS e.V., Kunstpalast and KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
Development and delivery of a photography workshop and subsequent exhibition supporting visual literacy among children and young people from refugee families.

2026 / KUNST+BILDUNG, Kulturforum Alte Post, Neuss
Speaker and panellist on the utopian potential of artistic interventions in schools, in conversation with Fari Shams and Sascha Pohle, moderated by Dr Anne Schülke. Part of the conference KUNST+BILDUNG: Artists in Schools - A Regional Model for Success?, organised by LaB K NRW.

2026 / Kulturkinder e.V., Kunstraum Bickendorf, Cologne
Workshop exploring storytelling through image fragments as part of the Kulturrucksack programme

2025-2026 / Visual Literacies, Cooperation between Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen and Deutscher Jugendfotopreis / Deutsches Kinder- und Jugendfilmzentrum.
Workshop facilitation for a pilot project strengthening visual literacy in schools

2024–2025 / Julia Stoschek Foundation
Workshops for children and young people relating to the collection and temporary exhibitions

2021–2023 / KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
Art educator in Meet & Talk, a dialogue-based mediation programme

In her artistic practice, Jessica Tille investigates how information changes meaning as it circulates through different media. The works develop in parallel through language and material, unfolding as spatial systems and physical constellations. They often begin with specific terms, data, temporal processes, material traces or performative actions, which are removed from their original context and transfer into other material or technical systems through processes of notation, archiving, translation and repetition. At these contact zones, the boundaries between poetics and system, the organic and the technical, the analogue and the digital begin to blur.

Language takes on an operative function in her work, as looks for material or semantic tensions in a word and works through it. Terms become tools whose meanings are traced across different fields of knowledge and extend through material. Language is intended not to describe these relationships, but to set operations in motion through which, for example, a technical body becomes a repository for a bodily trace. Research and writing run parallel to the material work. Writing itself generates relationships that continue in material and space, allowing bodies of work to grow further. The book repeatedly becomes a model for spatial organisation: pages, tables of contents, figures or footnotes detach from its binding and continue as spatial structures, while, conversely, places and architectures are read, traversed or divided into chapters like texts. Texts, datasets, images, objects, performance, videos and sound draw on one another, generating versions, repetitions and deviations. One transfer initiates another, and information develops its own material logic as it changes medium. Terms such as playback, dubbing or splitting can thus become linguistic, technical, bodily and spatial operations simultaneously.

Time is one of the quantities that moves through these systems. It can be absent as lost hour, run backwards as countdown, be stored in a body or distributed across the pages of a book. Technical standards and collective knowledge meet bodily perceptions and planetary processes; measuring instruments and interfaces become tools for speculative connections. The body appears within these systems as a time-based biographical medium whose traces are measured, extracted, scaled, stored and fed into other carriers. It becomes a repository, processor or source, while technical systems take on bodily properties: they grow, age, digest, decay, remember or generate doubles. As bodies increasingly become legible and reproducible as data, she is particularly interested in the deviations, translation errors and material residues that resist complete transfer.

The works therefore develop less in a linear manner than through constellations and cycles. Individual works grow into one another through revisiting and mutation. Motifs, materials and figures reappear in altered forms, creating a growing archive across bodies of work that comments on itself. The works thus remain in a state of becoming: as versions of information that circulates through different bodies and media, producing something different with each change.

Last Updated 02.11.2026

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