Jurgen Ots is a visual artist based in Brussels whose practice centers around found materials, archival remnants, and site-specific interventions. Engaging with the overlooked, the obsolete, and the cast-aside, his work uncovers the latent narratives embedded in the everyday. Ots treats each object as a fragment of a larger, often obscured story—an entry point into systems of memory, loss, and reinterpretation. His practice is anchored in a sustained engagement with Brussels’ Jeu de Balle flea market, a living archive of urban history, where he regularly collects discarded books, faded prints, handwritten notes, technical manuals, and outdated technologies. These found elements function not merely as raw materials, but as interlocutors—carriers of past voices, gestures, and intentions.

Ots follows a deeply intuitive and tactile process, one that resists rigid methodologies in favor of open-ended exploration. His daily encounters with forgotten or discarded objects—weathered pages, faded photographs, obsolete devices—become intimate dialogues with history and absence. These materials, imbued with the marks of time and previous ownership, act as both witnesses and catalysts. By engaging with them, Ots excavates layers of meaning, allowing their silent narratives to surface through acts of transformation.

His work has been exhibited internationally in prominent institutions such as Aike (Shanghai), Galleria Zero (Milan), Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Centralbanken (Oslo), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Kunsthalle (Düsseldorf), BOZAR (Brussels), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), Ludlow38 (New York), Rencontres d’Arles (France), the National Museum of Iceland (Reykjavik), and Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin).