Jordan Madlon
Jordan Madlon works at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and drawing. Using forms crafted from materials such as wood, textile, and aluminum, he develops a distinctive visual language that explores the relationship between color, line, and space. He studied at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Saint-Étienne and at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. In 2017, Madlon received the Kunstart? Prize from the Fondation François Schneider, and in 2021 he was awarded the Woodcut Advancement Prize by the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen. He has been a fellow of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation and completed a residency in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
His work is represented in numerous international collections, including the Fondation François Schneider, FRAC Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand), the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, and the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg. Jordan Madlon currently lives and works in Mannheim.
Artworks
Vita
Jordan Madlon lives and works in Mannheim (DE)
* Born in 1989 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe
Education
Postgraduate studies | State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (DE)
École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Étienne (FR)
Awards
Prize of the Artists' Association Baden-Württemberg
Holzschnitt-Förderpreis | Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen (DE)
Artistes en Résidence | Residency Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Stipendium für Bildende Künste | Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation (DE)
Prix Kunstart? | Fondation François Schneider | Wattwiller (FR)
Solo Exhibitions
Diagrammatisch | Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen (DE)
GLOSE | Goeben | Berlin (DE)
former la langue | COHERENT | Brussels (BE)
un amour si grand qu’il nie son objet | Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation | Stuttgart (DE)
élément(s) de langage(s) | art Karlsruhe | via Fondation CCFA | Karlsruhe (DE)
seine Zunge im ZRaum halten | V8 Platform for New Art | Karlsruhe (DE)
sous couvert de peinture | La Vitrine Galerie Jean Brolly | Paris (FR)
Der Wonne Lust Sc/nitt | Kunstverein Letschebach | Karlsruhe (DE)
La syntaxe mise à nue par ses célibataires | Même | Cuba Libre | Saint-Étienne (FR)
Group Exhibitions
Mannheim Abstrakt | Mannheim Art Association | Mannheim (DE)
Lions Art | Alte Schildkrötfabrik | Mannheim (DE)
Deltabeben | Wilhelm Hack Museum | Ludwigshafen (DE)
Sitting in a tin can | Galerie Peripherie | Tübingen (DE)
Sieste Jaune | Galerie Romero Paprocki | Paris (FR)
Künstlerbund Förderpreis 2023 | AKKU | Stuttgart (DE)
c’est beau | c’est loin | Galerie Jeune Création | Romainville (FR)
Burden Painting | LAUBE Karlsruhe (DE) (with Rémy Hysbergue)
For real?! | Kunstverein Reutlingen (DE)
We proudly present | Kunstraum Riehen | REGIONALE22 (CH)
65e Salon de Montrouge | Montrouge (FR)
zig zag | Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim (DE)
Après l’école: biennale Art Press des jungen Künstler | Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Saint-Étienne (FR)
Give me a reason | Initiative Sebastian Volz | Villa Gellerstraße | Karlsruhe (DE)
V8 Plattform für neue Kunst | Karlsruhe (DE)
du caractère de la nuance [volume 2] (with Julie Digard) | Luis Leu | Karlsruhe (DE)
forme manquée [volume 1] (with Julie Digard) | Galerie B+ | Lyon (FR)
Clinamen | Villa Gellerstraße | Karlsruhe (DE)
Open Garage°4 | Independent Exhibition Program | Karlsruhe (DE)
Cornelis (with Jana de Jonge) | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (DE)
Around Etel Adna’s Poetry | Espace Despalles | Paris (FR)
Kunstartpreis | Fondation François Schneider | Wattwiller (FR)
Jeune Création °67 | Thaddaeus Ropac | Pantin (FR)
Höhenluft #13 | Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen (DE)
Künstlermesse | Regional Council Karlsruhe (DE)
3 (with Daniela Prochaska and Moritz Siegler) | Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe (DE)
Memberships
Member of the Artists' Association Baden-Württemberg (DE)