Born in Silver Spring, USA in 1987, Jill Kiddon began her studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (D) where she completed her studies in 2014 as a master student of Marijke van Warmerdam. In 2012 she was a guest student of Christl Mudrak at Weißensee School of Fine Arts Berlin. She studied Conservation and Restoration/Excavation technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin from 2016 till 2018. 2023 Natur der Dinge / artist talk / State Akademie of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, DE 2024 Kunstfonds_Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE 2024 Lux Ore / Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, DE 2024 Puer Aeternus / Böhmische Str. 46 / Berlin, DE
Jill Kiddon has received artist fellowships by the Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg in 2014 and received the NEUSTART KULTUR stipend of the Art Foundation Kunstfonds in 2020 and 2022. In 2023 she was awarded the Prize of the Estate Foundation Prof. Horst Egon Kalinowski from Art Foundation Kunstfonds and recently was awarded the Kunstfonds_Stipendium of the Art Foundation Kunstfonds.
She is based in Berlin.
Jill Kiddons work centers on the intersections of humans and the environment, with a focus on spacial structures, concepts of time and the notion of destruction as a transformative agent.
Her sculptures and immersive installations shift the space they inhabit by proposing new relations of materiality. As her pieces transition from one state to another the transformative quality of matter is implied, challenging traditional ways of understanding the material world as a whole. Within her arrangements the human presence remains abstract - appearing only as a trace of itself in the midst of the continuity of things.
In 2016 Kiddon and the artist Benjamin Bernt initiated the project Vitamin C, located in a single room apartment in Neukölln, Berlin. The projects last show was in 2018, hosted by +DEDE.
PUBLICATIONS & TALKS
2023 AnexPTG / exhibition catalogue / Present Perfect Progressive
2022 PAGe#16 / digital print / published by Traslochi Emotivi
2020 The Space of Relations / artist book / published by Edizione Multicolore
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 Kalinowski Prize, Horst Egon Kalinowski Foundation, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2022 Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2020 Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2014 Postgraduate scholarship of the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg, DE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Forget Before / Center for Contemporary Art Karlsruhe, DE
2022 Life in the ruins / Ile / Leipzig, DE
2016 Marshmallow High / Atmo / Berlin, DE
2016 Waters Edge / Kunstverein Letschebach, Karlsruhe, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Concealed Presence / Gr_und / Berlin, DE
Imminent Reveries / Aerial Palettes at Offsite by Wehrmühle / Berlin, DE
one possibility / In freefall / Horse & Pony at Exgirlfriend / Berlin, DE
Wogen / Luis Leu / Karlsruhe, DE
2023 Lost & Found / Goeben at GU11 / Cologne, DE
2023 Last Thursday / Rangsdorf Studio / Berlin, DE
2023 Tides / Grabowsee Residency / Berlin, DE
2023 Aprés Déssert / A:D Curational / Berlin, DE
2023 Present Perfect Progressive / Hermetika / Berlin, DE
2022 Friday the 13th / +DEDE / Berlin, DE
2022 Simultanprojekte 2022 / Simultanhalle / Cologne, DE
2021 FreshAir / Salon am Moritzplatz / Berlin, DE
2021 #6 / Halle 14 / Leipzig, DE
2021 Apartment Show (duo) / Second Wave / Berlin, DE
2021 Our Economy / Alte Münze / Berlin, DE
2020 Volatile Dispersal / + DEDE / Berlin, DE
2019 Meine Hände, Meine Zähne / Kunstwerke / Cologne, DE
2019 Esprit Ecstasy (duo) / Housefront / Brussels, BE
2018 Heute oder Morgen / +DEDE / Berlin, DE
2018 Pooling / Pool / Karlsruhe, DE
2016 You You, In Out (duo) / Vitamin C / Berlin, DE
2016 Neutral Dynamic Stability / Möbelhaus von A-Z / Berlin, DE
2015 The Given and the Made / Kunstverein Freiburg / Freiburg, DE
2014 Sculpture / NDI / New York, USA