Jaron Kühmstedt

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  • 2024

    2025

    40 Pages
    A5
    Digital Print
    Handmade Paper Envelope

    Complementary Zine “TOKYO dec. 2024“

    Limited Edition of 30

    This zine compiles and documents my year 2024. Meant as a little physical trinket, the zine came with an additional complementary zine featuring photographs taken on my most recent trip to Tokyo in December of 2024. As usual, the zine came with a personalized letter as well. The 30 existing copies were gifted to my friends and family members. 

    The zine features photographs of people and places taken throughout the year, many on black and white analog film, personal writings, and a number of songs that were of some significance.

    The zines and letter were sown shut in a translucent handmade envelope, requiring the receiver to either force their entry or find creative ways to non-destructively open it, leading to unique and inventive ways of opening it, further enhancing the personalized experience.

  • places of certain significance

    Photobook

    2023

    86 Pages
    21 x 21cm
    Digital Print on Loop 118gsm Paper
    Coptic Stitch Binding
    43 Black and White Analog Photographs shot on 6×6 and 35mmm film

    Complementary original Medium Format Negative for each copy

    Limited Edition of 3

    Printed at Printing Room Hong Kong

    places of certain significance

    This photo project traces back the artist’s time in Hong Kong and the experiences he made there over these two years. It represents an attempt at creating a somewhat comprehensive documentation of the places visited, places where certain experiences were made, or simply places that stayed in the artist’s memory just by themselves, without necessarily any significant moment attached to them. And while this project is a very personal one in that it condenses a most significant time of the artist’s life, it mostly just remains a seemingly random accumulation of images for others who have not shared a moment with him in one of these places. Still, these images are able to evoke certain things in others too, make them wonder why a certain place is included, what might have happened there, or even make them wonder about their own places that have a certain significance to them. Every place can be of certain significance for someone, no matter how seemingly bland or mundane it is.

    All pictures in this book are shot on analog black and white film with the square pictures being shot on 6×6 medium format film specifically for this project over a span of two months in October and November of 2023. The double spreads, as well as the pictures usually printed on the left, are shot on 35mm film and are archival images that have been taken during the two years in Hong Kong. By including these images, the artist tries to expand on simply revisiting places around Hong Kong and broaden the meaning of a certain place, give more context, or add a more personal note to it. In total, this book contains 43 photographs of which 31 are medium format and twelve 35mm pictures.

  • Hong Kong #2

    2024

    40 Pages
    A5
    Digital Print
    Handmade Paper Envelope

    1 of 3 Complementary Leporellos – Korea, Japan, Taiwan

    Limited Edition of 20

    This two-part zine compiles and documents the second year of the artist’s two year long studies in Hong Kong. Meant as a little physical trinket, the zine came with one of three leporellos, each featuring travel memories of one of the three destinations the artist traveled to after concluding his studies in Hong Kong in December of 2023. One leporello each was made for Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. As before, the zine came with a personalized letter as well. The 20 existing copies were gifted to friends made along the way in Hong Kong as well as friends from Germany and family members. 

    The zine features photographs of people and places taken throughout the year, mostly on black and white analog film, personal writings, and a number of songs that were of some significance.

    The zine, leporello and letter were sown shut in a translucent handmade envelope, requiring the receiver to either force their entry or find creative ways to non-destructively open it, further enhancing the personalized experience.

  • Hong Kong #1

    2023

    36 Pages
    A5
    Digital Print
    Handmade Paper Envelope

    Complementary Analog Darkroom Print

    Limited Edition of 20

    This two-part zine compiles and documents the first year of the artist’s two yearlong studies in Hong Kong. Meant as a little physical trinket, the zine came with a personalized analog darkroom print and letter. The 20 existing copies were gifted to friends made along the way in Hong Kong as well as friends from Germany and family members. 

    The zine features photographs of people and places taken throughout the year, mostly on black and white analog film, personal writings, and a number of songs that were of some significance.

    The zine, photograph and letter were sown shut in a translucent handmade envelope, requiring the receiver to either force their entry or find creative ways to non-destructively open it further enhancing the personalized experience.

  • Sanatio CBD

    10”, 20”
    TVC

    2021

    TVCs for Sanatio CBD

  • Day n Night // The Bay Market x Y2K x Crush Crush

    1′
    Event Reel

    2023

    Event reel made for The Bay Market, Y2K, and Crush Crush at Supacity in Hong Kong, 2023.

    Flea Market, Arts & Crafts Market, Live Music, DJs.

    Y2K

    The Bay Market

  • +852 – the making of a retrospective

    7′
    Making-of

    2025

    Made by Jaron Kühmstedt
    Additional Footage by Parco Wong

    Curatorial Statement

    +852 is the telephone country code of Hong Kong. A place where we have spent two of the most significant years of our lives, participating in the double degree program of Digital Media at Leuphana and Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.

    This exhibition is not just an amalgamation of the works that we have produced abroad, but a materialization of our collective memories. It is a showcase of artworks that smelt together the different perspectives and circumstances that we have encountered in Hong Kong. The City is often overwhelming and extreme, with stark contrasts ranging from rich to poor, nature to urban, freedom to suppression. And yet we are in love with the city as a seemingly endless source of inspiration and creativity and as a former, beloved home

    Artists
    Jaron Kühmstedt
    Marek Gollan
    Saari Ibbeken
    Sonja Antonova
    Thore Flynn Hadre

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  • +852 – Two years in Hong Kong: a retrospective

    Screening and Exhibition at Kunstraum Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany

    2025

    Curatorial Statement

    +852 is the telephone country code of Hong Kong. A place where we have spent two of the most significant years of our lives, participating in the double degree program of Digital Media at Leuphana and Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.

    This exhibition is not just an amalgamation of the works that we have produced abroad, but a materialization of our collective memories. It is a showcase of artworks that smelt together the different perspectives and circumstances that we have encountered in Hong Kong. The City is often overwhelming and extreme, with stark contrasts ranging from rich to poor, nature to urban, freedom to suppression. And yet we are in love with the city as a seemingly endless source of inspiration and creativity and as a former, beloved home

    Artists
    Jaron Kühmstedt
    Marek Gollan
    Saari Ibbeken
    Sonja Antonova
    Thore Flynn Hadré

    Featured Works

    places of certain significance
    Selection of ten black and white medium format photographs from the book
    Digital Print
    165 x 165mm on A4 Paper
    2023

    Burnt Fox
    Abstract Animation
    3′
    2023

    Common Grounds
    Documentary
    30′
    2024

    INTERLACEDISORDER
    Experimental Film
    14′
    2024

    color where non should be
    Three Chemigrams (experimental analog darkroom prints)
    Alternative Process Photography
    2023

    The exhibition making-of “+852 – the making of a retrospective”

    Made by Jaron Kühmstedt
    Additional Footage by Parco Wong

  • Cyte Magazine

    Artist Talk #1
    20′
    Interview Series

    2020

    Topmodel Franziska Knuppe talks to painter Tronje Thole van Ellen about money, tits and yoga….

    Film by Jaron Kühmstedt

    Additional Camera Mika Dylla

    Find the story in CYTE#5 Spring/summer issue 2020 and on www.cytemagazin.de

    Artist Talk #2
    24′
    Interview Series

    2020

    A conversation between jewellery designer Laurence van de Perre and musician Norman Theuerkorn.

    Film by Jaron Kühmstedt

    Additional Camera Mika Dylla

    Find the story in CYTE#6 Autumn/Winter issue 2020 and on www.cytemagazin.de

    Artist Talk #3
    16′
    Interview Series

    2021

    A conversation between piano-player Stella Fellert @modelwerk and dancer Amin Baahmed @modelwerk about reeperbahn, breaking and life.

    Film by Jaron Kühmstedt

    Additional Camera Mika Dylla

  • Likewise Magazine

    Sound Waves – Mong Tong
    7′
    Band Portrait

    2023

    Sound waves is a new series which dives into the minds of some of our favorite musicians. Mong Tong is a duo from Taiwan, made up of brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi, who are known for their psychedelic music music inspired by the occult and traditional superstitions. We caught up with them in London during their European tour last year, where they opened for Japanese psychedelic rock band Kikagaku Moyo. Tune in to learn more about their journey through sound, and how they feel a strong connection to old venues through their music.

    Filmed by Ollie Rodgers

    Edited by Jaron Kuehmstedt

    Learn more at likewisemag.com/mong-tong

    Likewise Session Ep. 06 – Virgin Vacation
    18′
    Music Session

    2022

    Virgin Vacation played a heavy instrumental set combining elements of psychedelia, math rock, jazz and electronic music. The 4-piece are known to use repetition and improvisation, creating hypnotic, spiraling soundscapes. Sit back, relax and enjoy some original music out of Hong Kong.

    Filmed by Gemma Harrad, Ollie Rodgers, Patrik Wallner

    Additional Filming Cathy Lait, Melinda Junata

    Edited by Jaron Kuehmstedt, Ollie Rodgers

    Sound Engineer Dominic Lee

    Learn more at likewisemag.com/likewise-sessions-ep-06-virgin-vacation