JACOB HEINE/AL-MAJNOUN BOOKS

                           

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■ Jacob Heine (*2001) is a German photographer and designer. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (BUW), he currently studies photography in the diploma class of Heidi Specker at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Heine’s work bridges photography, book design, and theory, regularly presented in the form of self-produced publications. Photographically interested in atmospheres of artificial light and sculptural qualities, his work textually concerns itself with the topics of autism, mental health, grief, and their connections to photography as well as philosophy, sociology, linguistics, psychology, and politics. ■ Heine has been exhibited in Germany and Japan, lastly being shortlisted for the Stiftung Buchkunst’s Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design. Heine was a student assistant and workshop lecturer at the BUW, currently teaching there as a visiting lecturer. From 2025 to 2026, he was a recipient of the German National Scholarship Program.
















■ Jacob’s e-mail (BUW):   jacob.heine@uni-weimar.de
■ Jacob’s e-mail (HGB):    jheine@hgb-leipzig.de
■ Jacob’s Instagram:         @heine.portfolio






















■ TOTAL IMGS:         81
■ COLLECTIONS:    4
■ SUBPAGES:           48




































■ A: \ GENERAL
         ■ CV.
         ■ AL-MAJNOUN BOOKS.
         ■ EXHIBITONS.
         ■ DOWNLOADS.
         ■ NAVIGATION VIA TAGS:
                #2026
   
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#2024
                #2023
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                #COLOUR
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    ■ B: \ COLLECTIONS
        ■ PORTRAITS
        ■ ROOMS
        ■ OBJECTS 
        ■ FIGURES
        ■ CONCERTS
        ■ COMMISSIONS

■ C: \ PUBLICATIONS
         ■ 2026
              □ COVENANT VERPISS DICH (A/B)
              □ SCHATZ MACH DIE FENSTER ZU
              □ UNTITLED
              □ ABSTRAKTA
              □ DIE KNEIFZANGE.
              □ PIKACHU UND DIE ANTIFA.
              □ MY TONGUE GATHERS DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
              □ عفوا انا عربيتو زعيفة        
              □ 250 TEST STRIPS
              □ LIMONA [LOVE LETTER/LAMENT]
         ■ 2025
              □ DARK WAS THE NIGHT COLD WAS THE GROUND
              □ BAGAGE
              □ THE ABRIDGED ADOX-DRINKER
              □ CONFESSIONS OF AN AUTISTIC ADOX-DRINKER
        ■ 2024
              □ CAVE & LORCA
              □ THE STRIPPED PREACHER
              □ ES IST SCHWER, DIE RICHTIGEN WORTE ZU FINDEN
              □ SWALLOW TUNE IS A BAND.

    ■ C: \ SERIES
         ■ 2023-24
              □ I LEFT MY LUNGS IN SONNEBERG
              □ TENEBRIST NUDES
         ■ 2023
              □ SCULPTURAL STUDIES
         ■ 2022-23          
              □ THE HAND AS SCULPTURE

    C: \ PUBLICATIONS \ 2024 \ ES IST SCHWER, DIE RICHTIGEN WORTE ZU FINDEN

    2024
    artist book
    156 p.
    230 x 305 mm
    Swiss binding

    Munken Pure Rough 120 g/m²
    Silka Mono 

    Kunst- und Buchdruckerei Kessler, Weimar
    Buchbinderei Steinhagen, Weimar

    The project was under the supervision of Pio Rahner & Marcel Saidov in cooperation with Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen (Bremen) and was supported by the Kreativfonds of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as part of the course "Bücher über Bücher".

    “Es ist schwer, die richtigen Worte zu finden: 92 Schreiben anlässlich eines Trauerfalls” (It is hard to find the right words: 92 letters of a death in the family) is an artist publication about compassionate grief. It re-contextualises the process of correspondence with condolence mail from the perspective of an autistic grieving recipient revisiting old writings, seeking to re-evaluate them. In this, it follows two questions: What are the words used to communicate compassionate grief in a specific case? How are the words packaged visually?

    To this end and following a wish for order in an array of disorderly items, wishing to bring comfort in clear structure, 91 transcripts of mail from a close death in my family are broken down into structural text parts which are sorted, distilling it to leave in only dominant words and phrases, fragments just big enough to make out a message, fleeting as if skimmed over. This is followed by grids of all cards and envelopes sent. 

    Until now a dissection rather than a conversation with a deeply emotional subject, the publication is closed by a 92nd (and last) letter written during the assembly of the book by me to my younger self during the time of receiving all mail presented before. Moving the book away from an intellectual exercise, this last chapter articulates the fundamental purpose of the book: to express confusion about the nature of these correspondences as an autistic person as well as an expression of empathy and reconciliation to oneself as a person inexperienced with the responsibilities of grief, autistic or not.