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14.09.2023
Landscape for the Chosen Ones
(150 pc.)
format 17,5 x 10 cm
paper Munken Cream 80g / Amber Graphic 70g
method Offset
colors Violet/Grey on Cover
work for Hafnarborg, Hafnarfjörður Center for Culture and Art

Exhibition catalogue for the show “Landscape for the Chosen Ones” for Hafnarborg Center for Culture and Fine Art in Hafnarfjörður (Iceland), curated and edited by Eva Lín Viljálmsdóttir & Odda Júlía Snorradóttir in 2023. The exhibition brought together a variety of works on escapism by Iceland-based artists.

The publication is a hybrid of a catalogue for the works of all participating artists and a collection of three commissioned science fiction short stories. The framework of illustrations and the two new “nightmarish” cuts of the font Sorts Mill Goudy interconnect the narrative, visual concept, and structure of the book with Arna Beth Saulsdóttirs’ commissioned video work “Oneirokritikon” and her universe of dreamgivers – making the book an object of escapism itself. A vague dream language interconnects the content and leads through all pages of the book alongside illustrations of a growing homunculus. As the new font, they were drawn in a tool programmed in processing.

link to research material
Karlsruhe: 21.12.2024 – 12:33:09
Reykjavík: 21.12.2024 – 11:33:09
OTHER BOOKS:
Eine chaotische Videoanalyse zum Verständnis rechter Formate auf Youtube (A chaotic video analysis on politically right video formats on Youtube)
Landscape for the Chosen Ones
Heapology
Barbara - a tale of transformation
How to Share the Dancefloor
This is a Good Place
How to be moved by Art
Inhabitants
Questions
Potential Spaces
About
Collectives

inactive
2018 – 2022 Nofoundry.xyz (1/many) Co-founder
2019 Saturday Type Fever Graphics & Concept
2020 Saturday Type Fever II Concept

active
since 2021 Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (1/5) Community
since 2022 Nordic Noise (1/6) Curatorial research
since 2022 Bizarre Image (1/2) Special Effect Media

Selected Free Projects

2016 Refugee World Bank Super(Design)Fiction
2017 New Rage with Riefka El Habachi
2017 NoFoundry.xyz Coded old website
2018 C-E-R-N BACHELOR PROJECT
2019 From Hawaii to Eternety video essay
2019 Teenage Boy Bible a code generated book
2019 Partir, c'est mourir un peu video essay (I fell in a hole)
2020 The Cymera Family Organisation Super(Design)Fiction
2020 Relicts of Time beyond the Clock with Sonja Schwarz
2020 Super(Design)Fiction MASTER THESIS
2021 The Icelandic Foreign Legion MASTER PROJECT
2021 Stofan community space
2024 About Fighting the Fear (of the World) MASTER PROJECT (Diplom)

my POSTERS

Selected Commissions

2017 Questions? took part with Laurine Haller & Sun Young Oh
2019 Potential Spaces publication with Katrin Rüll
2022 LungA Festival Graphics with Gréta Þorkelsdóttir
2023 It's always nice to be wanted Typography and Lettering
2023 Landscape for the Chosen Ones

Selected Clients

IS
> The Nordic House Reykjavík
> Iceland University of the Arts (Listaháskóli Íslands)
> LungA Art Festival
> Hafnarborg Hafnarfjörður Center for Culture and Fine Arts

DE
> University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe)
> ZKM Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media)
CV

Education

2024 Master in Communication Design & Media Art (Diplom)
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design


2021 Master in Design
MA Design "Explorations & Translations"
Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík


Internships

2017 Studio Katja Gretzinger internship
2020 Studio Garðar Eyjólfsson internship
2022 LungA Festival internship

Teaching

2022 Community Publication Making - "Inhabitants"
MA Design "Explorations & Translations", LHÍ Reykjavík

2023 Community Publication Making - "Heapology"
MA Design "Explorations & Translations", LHÍ Reykjavík

2023 Community Publication Making - "Whales"
BA Product Design, LHÍ Reykjavík

Contact

mail hi@janoschkratz.eu
insta janoschkratz.eu

I speak German and English
I code in HTML, CSS, jquery, javascript, PHP, VVVV, processing
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