About

Yakob-Aziz König (b. 1993 in Berlin, Germany) lives and works in Dortmund and Essen. His artistic practice moves between documentary and metaphorical visual worlds, with recurring themes revolving around in-between spaces and voids in both their material and immaterial forms. His interest in subjects of this nature stems from his family background. As the child of a German mother and a Malay father, with whom he has had little contact, his identity exists in a constant state of in-betweenness and ongoing negotiation, shaped by an estrangement from part of himself.

In places of transition and absence, questions of identity, power, belonging, and the fundamental conditions of human existence are negotiated and made visible.

He studied photography at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, as well as philosophy and cultural and social anthropology at the University of Münster. He is a member of Fotobus e.V. and Freelens e.V.

He has presented his work as part of the f2 Fotofestival and in exhibitions in Essen, Münster, Dortmund, and Vienna. His work Of Heroes and Names Lost was awarded the Bronze Medal of the German Photo Book Prize.