Yuran Yakon (German, b. 1994), also known by his given name Juran Landt, is an artist based in Bremen, Germany, whose practice is rooted in painting and drawing and has expanded into digital imagery, looping animation and video.,His work explores shifts in perception between the analogue and digital worlds, questioning the boundary often drawn between natural and artificial phenomena.
Yakon did not set out to become an artist: he was studying law when, at 21, he began making prints and collages and decided to pursue art instead.He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen in Ottersberg and was later a guest student in Simon Denny's class at HFBK Hamburg.He is also pursuing a master's degree in art and media theory at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.,One of his first series, 36 Televisions of Mount Fuji (2019), was based on screenshots, drawing on an early fascination with the electric noise of television screens.
Yakon began minting digital work after discovering Adrian Pocobelli's Artist Journal in August 2024, releasing new pieces nearly every day for nine months.In 2025 he was part of the first cohort of the objkt labs Residency, alongside artists including Martín Bruce. For the residency he made The Abyss You Cannot Train, curated by Anika Meier, a video and sound work that uses AI image and video generators to explore what the technology fails to capture rather than what it can produce.,He has said the piece is not about AI's possibilities but about “spaces without reference, experiences without images, and forms of perception that cannot be reduced to training data”.
In 2024 Yakon's painting DIVE won the 13th Werner-Kühl-Preis, and he held a Deutsche Bank Atelierstipendium the same year.,The prize led to a solo exhibition, “STREAMS”, at the Syker Vorwerk center for contemporary art in 2025, continuing the drawing practice begun with DIVE across series including Interface, Mesh Roaming and Bottom Text.In 2026 he won the Förderpreis der Kulturstiftung Öffentliche Oldenburg and held the solo exhibition “Sedimente des Rauschens” at the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur Oldenburg.,He has since shown work in the group exhibition “STILL WET” at Galerie Met in Berlin, describing his GIF series Streams as playing on the analogy between “the stream of consciousness, the stream of water, the stream of electricity and the stream of data”.
