Island Youth Andreas Jorns

12. December 2021 to 27. November 2022

What is life like on a North Frisian island when you are young? Are people there lonely? Does insular life make the islanders move closer together? Is the communal spirit stronger than elsewhere? Is life boring for young people on Föhr, especially during the winter or, now, the COVID-19 pandemic when visitors stay away? Do people want nothing but leave for the distant mainland? Or do young people love “their” island and stay?

 

As artist in residence at the MKdW, Andreas Jorns (b. 1966) asked himself these very questions. In the winter of 2019/20, he went on a search for clues. For seven weeks, he accompanied well over a hundred young people on Föhr, meeting them at school and during their spare time, talking to them in the classrooms and at home. The youths accepted this and showed him their living environments. Jorns observed them in gyms and at the beach doing sports, was present when they were making music and doing choir rehearsals, met them at club activities and at their private retreats, partied, danced and had discussions with them. In November 2020 Andreas Jorns returned to the island for a second residence, in order to talk to the youths again. What has changed? How does the Corona crisis potentially affect their life plans?

 

As the result of the photographic investigation he conducted on Föhr — an unprecedented project in the history of the island — a first concentrated cross-section of pictures will be shown. This will also be the artist’s first institutional
presentation. In the satellite show in Wyk, stattBAR, contact prints and making-of pictures reveal the photographer’s way of working.

 

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Andreas Jorns
Jule, Nieblum, Januar 2020
Andreas Jorns
Jule, Nieblum, Januar 2020

© Courtesy of the artist

Andreas Jorns
Neujahrssegeln
Andreas Jorns
Neujahrssegeln

Wyk, Januar 2020, aus der Serie Inseljugend Föhr 2019/20 © Courtesy of the artist

Andreas Jorns
Fynn
Andreas Jorns
Fynn

Hedehusum, November 2020, aus der Serie Inseljugend Föhr 2019/20 © Courtesy of the artist

Andreas Jorns
Anna & Anni
Andreas Jorns
Anna & Anni

Boldixum, Januar 2020, aus der Serie Inseljugend Föhr 2019/20 © Courtesy of the artist

Andreas Jorns
Louisa
Andreas Jorns
Louisa

Utersum, Januar 2020, aus der Serie Inseljugend Föhr 2019/20 © Courtesy of the artist

Andreas Jorns
Jark
Andreas Jorns
Jark

Borgsum, Januar 2020, aus der Serie Inseljugend Föhr 2019/20 © Courtesy of the artist