In his keynote speech, the well-known advertising copywriter and concept artist Jean-Remy von Matt talks about the three awakening experiences that set him on his path.
How he remained dissatisfied in advertising, but still became happy. And why success in the creative industry only comes in twos.
He concludes by reading six short passages from his new book “Am Ende”.

In this book, the author takes stock of his creative life. He promotes his bestseller with the provocative claim that this is “the first book that gets worse and worse from start to finish”, in which extremely entertaining experiences and insights from his childhood, the advertising industry and the cultural scene are conveyed. In conversation with Walter Smerling, Jean-Remy von Matt will explain the background to his work and his impressive career and answer questions from the audience.

Biographical information:

Jean-Remy was born in Brussels in 1952, grew up in Zurich and has lived in Germany since 1975, now in Berlin.

He spent almost five decades as a creative in various advertising agencies. In 1991, he and his partner Holger Jung founded the Jung von Matt agency, which soon became one of the largest independent agencies in Europe. For decades, their agency was regarded as the most creative in Germany and was repeatedly named “Independent Agency of the Year” at the Cannes Lions.

In 2020, he began to work with conceptual art. He soon had his first exhibitions in museums and galleries. His best-known works to date, which have been discussed in numerous publications, are his lifetime installations, with which he makes our transience visible and thus conscious. Jean-Remy developed a lifetime clock for himself back in 2002. He then presented his first lifetime sculpture, Carpe Vitam Clock, in 2022.
As a creative mind, he is much more fascinated by the future that can be shaped than the past that has already been completed. Our life expectancy is one of his favorite topics.