last update: 7.7.2025
Klaus Jung is an artist, art teacher and worked for many years in leading positions at European art academies: as rector in Trondheim, Bergen and Cologne and as head of the Fine Art Department at the Glasgow School of Art and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Since autumn 2021, he has once again devoted himself entirely to his own artistic work.
After many years of sculptural and site-specific installations, the photographic image has been at the centre of his interest since 1992 – especially in its digital transformation. How do we see images? Why do we believe them? What do they trigger in us? And to what extent do we allow ourselves to be guided by them?
The photographic image becomes a field of investigation – not as a medium of remembrance, but as an instrument of assertion. Klaus Jung asks what a picture shows – and how it does so. The documentary appearance, the supposed evidence, the "truth" of the photographic appear to him to be fragile, manipulable, controllable.
His pictures tell a story – but they do not force a narrative. They raise questions – without providing predetermined answers. They refuse to be read in a linear fashion and instead open up spaces for associative reflection.
Further information on the biography can be found in the current CV
Information on more recent works and book projects since 2009 can be found in the section New
Insights into earlier phases of his work – from his beginnings at the Düsseldorf Art Academy to his time in Glasgow – can be found in the archive.
A more detailed artistic self-image can be found in the About section.
Copies of the books, which are realised in an edition of 100 copies as print-on-demand, can be ordered directly in the shop.
For the German version please click here..